Doyenne Initiative

Analysis

Doyenne Initiative is a registered charity in United States, based in The Woodlands, TX. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2023, 3 years ago. Its declared purposes cover international, foreign affairs and national security, which this site groups under overseas aid and international. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Doyenne Initiative reported income of $112k and spending of $160k, spending 143% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $84k to $112k (+33%), an average of +10% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 29%. Over the whole period it spent 162% of the income it received.

Among 10,317 United States charities whose main cause is overseas aid and international and that reported income, Doyenne Initiative sits at the 37th percentile: it is larger than about 37% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile, and in the 43rd percentile within TX. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Edens Rose Foundation ($112k), Equip the Nations Inc ($112k) and Changing Lenses Changing Lives ($112k).

On its Form 990-EZ for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. At year end it held assets of $11k against liabilities of $281k, net assets of -$271k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.