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127 W FAIRBANKS AVE 282
Winter Park FL 32789-4326
Winter Park FL | IRS ruling year: 2014 | EIN: 46-1440059
ADDRESS, EDUCATE, COORDINATE, PROVIDE RESOURCES AND EVENTS THAT CONSOLE, SUPPORT AND MENTOR WIDOWS IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, ETHNICITY, OR RELI ... (More)
ADDRESS, EDUCATE, COORDINATE, PROVIDE RESOURCES AND EVENTS THAT CONSOLE, SUPPORT AND MENTOR WIDOWS IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, ETHNICITY, OR RELIGION. (Less)
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Modern Widows Club Inc. cannot currently be evaluated by our Accountability & Finance methodology due to only having one year of electronically-filed IRS Form 990 data. But please note, that the IRS is significantly delayed in processing nonprofit's annual tax filings. That may mean that this entity has electronically filed additional Forms 990 but they have yet to be processed and made public by the IRS.
To ensure year-to-year consistency the Encompass Rating System's Finance & Accountability beacon analyzes the three-year average of some data provided through the IRS 990.
Charity Navigator currently only has one year of consecutive e-filed Forms 990 from the IRS for Modern Widows Club Inc. under the EIN: 46-1440059.
Before Charity Navigator can evaluate Modern Widows Club Inc., Modern Widows Club Inc. will need to e-file for additional fiscal years.
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This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2019
Below are some key data points from the Exempt Organization IRS Business Master File (BMF) for this organization. Learn more about the BMF on the IRS website
Activities:
Activity data not reported from the IRS
Foundation Status:
Organization that normally receives no more than one-third of its support from gross investment income and unrelated business income and at the same time more than one-third of its support from contributions, fees, and gross receipts related to exempt purposes. 509(a)(2) (BMF foundation code: 16)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage finance and accountability data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (Modern Widows Club Inc.) or EIN (461440059) in the 'Search Term' field.
This organization was impacted by COVID-19 in a way that effected their financial health in 2020. This normally would have reduced their star rating. Due to the unprecedented nature of the pandemic, we give charities such as this one the opportunity to share the story of COVID's impact on them, and doing this pauses our revision of their rating. Charities may submit their own pandemic responses through their nonprofit portal.
Modern Widows Club Inc. reported being impacted by COVID-19 in the following ways:
Fundraising Capacity
Revenue
Staffing
Grants Received
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's operations financially:
Donations to our organization declined by 75%, while our organization needs and services doubled two years in a row due to COVID-10 deaths of spouses. Widowhood has become a crisis in numbers, funding is needed to continue to provide programs for our undeserved community of women and families.
How COVID-19 impacted the organization's delivery of programs:
Due to being unable to meeting in person during the pandemic, we innovated and taught all our leaders how to ZOOM to serve double the amount of widows from 2019 and doubled again in 2021.
How this organization adapted to changing conditions caused by COVID-19:
We streamlined our staff to be more video oriented for internal communication as well as external service programs. Monthly meetings with leaders in the field became feedback to shift decision making to meet the needs of the many new widows finding our nonprofit.
Innovations the organization intends to continue permanently after the pandemic:
Our virtual programs will remain and enhance our service reach, we also are having annual virtual education events as well as our popular in person Widow Empowerment Event.
Not Currently Scored
Modern Widows Club Inc. cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Results methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.
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Modern Widows Club Inc. reported its largest program on its FY 2019 Form 990 as:
Spent in most recent FY
Percent of program expenses
THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDED RESOURCES FOR MONTHLY IN PERSON GATHERINGS THROUGHOUT THE NATION SERVING 2,315 WIDOWS. FIRST TIME SUPPORT AND EDUCATIONS SERVICES WERE PROVIDED TO 240 WIDOWS. SIX LOCAL CHAPT ... (More)
THE ORGANIZATION PROVIDED RESOURCES FOR MONTHLY IN PERSON GATHERINGS THROUGHOUT THE NATION SERVING 2,315 WIDOWS. FIRST TIME SUPPORT AND EDUCATIONS SERVICES WERE PROVIDED TO 240 WIDOWS. SIX LOCAL CHAPTERS WERE CREATED IN FOUR STATES. LEADERSHIP TRAINING PROVIDED TO FIFTY-FOUR CHAPTER LEADERS. ONGOING VIRTUAL TRAINING IS PROVIDED TO EXISTING AND NEW CHAPTER LEADERS. FIFTY-NINE EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ON WIDOWHOOD WERE PRODUCED. ORGANIZED A LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF 200 ATTENDEES FOR THE PURPOSE OF RAISING AWARENESS TO SUPPORT AND MENTOR WIDOWS. (Less)
Modern Widows Club Inc. has earned a 96% for the Culture & Community beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's culture and connectedness to the community it serves.
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Not ApplicableConstituent Feedback - Data Available - 100/100 ptsConstituent Feedback - Data Available - 100/100 pts
30% of beacon score
This organization reported that it is collecting feedback from the constituents and/or communities it serves. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations that engage in inclusive practices, such as collecting feedback from the people and communities they serve, may be more effective.
Who are the people you serve with your mission? Describe briefly.
Women. Widowed Women. Daughters who lost fathers (next generation of widows). Families and Friends of Widows. Adults over 18years old. Indicating desire for support. All ages, ethnic backgrounds, beliefs, faiths, partner statuses, socioeconomic statuses and loss circumstances.
How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.), Focus groups or interviews (by phone or in person), Paper surveys, Constituent (client or resident, etc.) advisory committees, Suggestion box/email, Other means
How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve
With whom does your organization share the feedback you got from the people you serve?
The people we serve, Our staff, Our board, Our funders, Our community partners
How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship with them or shifted power - over decisions, resources, rules or in other ways - to them?
It has helped advance our program evaluations and knowledge in what is working for our community and what is not. Feedback from our community is vital to continuing innovative programs using data driven decisions. If a program is given full effort for over a year, yet our outcomes do not match out outputs and inputs, we will retire that program at the end of one full year. Our Widow Empowerment Quiz tool allows us to survey our ladies and know what phase they are in. With these findings, we are able to make decisions on where to focus our resource growth to scale our effectiveness and outreach.
What challenges does your organization face in collecting feedback from the people you serve?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Briefly describe a recent change that your organization made in response to feedback from the people you serve.
2022- Partnering with Washington University in St. Louis research team to create a comprehensive widow and widower database to utilize for future health research projects. 2020-We utilized REDcap Software to create a comprehensive widow survey with 500 respondents June 2020. We also surveyed all registrants to our 2020 Widow Empowerment Event attendees on June 27, 2020 on how the virtual experience impacted their widowhood journey and asked what more would they wish to have us address. 2019- Leadership Conference, we received feedback from an organizational survey that stated local chapter leadership teams were in need of more training. We added 2 Regional Directors into our Organizational Structure to better serve our national chapter leaders with growth and effectiveness.
Equity Practices - Data Available - 95/100 ptsEquity Practices - Data Available - 95/100 pts
70% of beacon score
This organization's score of 95 is a passing score. The organization reported that it is implementing 9 Equity Practices. Charity Navigator believes nonprofit organizations implementing effective equity policies and practices can enhance a nonprofit's decision-making, staff motivation, innovation, and effectiveness.
Equity Practices (3/7) | |
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We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race. | |
We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and/or portfolios. | |
We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization/'s programs, portfolios, and the populations served. | |
We disaggregate data to adjust programming goals to keep pace with changing needs of the communities we support. | |
We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders. | |
We disaggregate data by demographics, including race, in every policy and program measured | |
We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. | |
Equity Policies and Procedures (6/7) | |
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We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity. | |
We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions. | |
We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization. | |
We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board. | |
We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability. | |
We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team. | |
We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization. | |
Modern Widows Club Inc. has earned a 100% for the Leadership & Adaptability beacon. See the metrics below for more information.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
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Full CreditPartial CreditNo CreditNot ApplicableMission - 10/10 ptsMission - 10/10 pts
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission
ADDRESS, EDUCATE, COORDINATE, PROVIDE RESOURCES AND EVENTS THAT CONSOLE, SUPPORT AND MENTOR WIDOWS IN A SAFE ENVIRONMENT REGARDLESS OF THEIR RACE, ETHNICITY, OR RELIGION.
Vision - 10/10 ptsVision - 10/10 pts
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization’s vision.
To pioneer widow solutions, support and research.
Source: Nonprofit submitted responses
Goals - 20/20 ptsGoals - 20/20 pts
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Provide widow support services to widows in need by developing online services.
Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.
Goal Two: Develop research that improves the efficacy of our data driven programs.
Goal Type: New program(s) based on observed changes in needs among our constituencies/communities served.
Goal Three: Grow our community advocates to reach more underserved communities with our existing programs.
Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).
Leadership Development - 15/15 ptsLeadership Development - 15/15 pts
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development
Modern Widows Club is the one widow leadership training program in the world. We worked with strategic organizations to assist in our grant funding process, board development and creating processes operationally. We used Catchfire to find top level professional voluteers for Salesforce, Mailchimp and website development.
Mobilizing for Mission - 15/15 ptsMobilizing for Mission - 15/15 pts
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
Strategic Partnerships
Networks of Collective Impact Efforts
Thought Leadership
Raising Awareness
Community Building
Policy Advocacy
Development of an Ambassadors Council, Advisory Council, Golden Committee and Research Committee assists us to connect with circles of influencers in various corporations.
Adaptability Story - 30/30 ptsAdaptability Story - 30/30 pts
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
We started using Slack as a way to better communicate and complete projects with our staff in 5 different states and community advocates in 43 cities in 5 countries.
Impact & Results
Accountability & Finance
Culture & Community
Leadership & Adaptability
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