Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
270208297
IRS 990 coverage
2012–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2011
Location
Dallas, TX, USA
Phone
4699663769
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Organization Support

Reported finances

Revenue
$884,568
Expenses
$563,858
Assets
$1,859,165
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Richard H Vitale (President)
  • Gary Griffith (Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Richard H Vitale (President)
  • Gary Griffith (Vice President)
  • Lauren Berryman (Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Woodrow Wilson High School Community Foundation is dedicated to nurturing and improving the public education community of East Dallas, not only enhancing Dallas Independent School Districts Woodrow Wilson High but also its eight lower feeder schools.

What it reported doing in 2025

The Woodrow Wilson High School Foundation Feeder Teacher Impact Fund is our annual teacher grant program that was crafted in collaboration with the Communities Foundation of Texas. Thanks to community supporters and donors, we have continued to grow our grant program since its initial founding in 2019. The program honors the WWHSCF Founding Vice President, Gary Griffith, a Woodrow alum, former Dallas City Council member, and outstanding community volunteer and leader. Our grant program continues to honor Garys continued community impact and service by celebrating and awarding our feeder patterns innovative teachers, staff and community leaders who are inspiring the next generation of talent. In fact, every campus in the Woodrow feeder pattern has received a grant that has either piloted, deepened, or expanded impactful classroom and campus projects.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 80% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 88
  • Accountability: 86
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 63.5%; rating input score 64
  • Program expense ratio: 93.8%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $98.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 94.3%; rating input score 94; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 96.4%; rating input score 96; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 36.3%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.3; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 25th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 63.5% of revenue deployed · 93.8% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 27 of 28 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $529K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 28 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $110K reported
  • Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
  • Filing history: 14 filing years from 2012 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.