Women Advance
Overview
Mission
Women Advance is an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of North Carolina women and families by providing education and encouraging constructive public dialogue about progressive ideas and public policy initiatives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Published 20+ original stories to amplify voices of NC women, especially women of marginalized backgrounds; Hosted career fairs and raised awareness for paid leave policy needs; Facilitated funding and structure for indi/visible programming serving MMIW in Robeson County
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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.
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 461039677
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2017, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Durham, NC, USA
- Phone
- 2522292829
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Rights
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $87,748
- Expenses
- $33,375
- Assets
- $58,317
- Liabilities
- $3,613
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 46
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 65
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.7%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 75.5%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 62%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.75; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 36.6%; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -20.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 66th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 28.7% of revenue deployed · 75.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $25K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 annual filings from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- Emily Hagstrom (Director)
- Antionette Kerr (Director)
- Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024.