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WOMEN BUILDING UP INC

EIN 87-1413975 BROOKLYN, NY

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Revenue 2024
$32,656,046
Expenses 2024
$2,713,425

Program services were 22.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R24
Classification
1000
Street
401 STATE ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

advance gender, racial, and social justice by supporting women, girls, and gender-expansive people whom carceral systems have directly impacted. We support them claiming their power and becoming agents of transformative change in their communities and the world.

  • advance gender, racial, and social justice by supporting women, girls, and gender-expansive people whom carceral systems have directly impacted. We support them claiming their power and becoming agents of transformative change in their communities and the world.

    Expenses $616,653

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Susan Shah

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $269,103
    From this org
    $234,624
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $34,479
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $234,124
    Bonus
    $500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $6,015
    Nontaxable benefits
    $28,464
    Filer's total
    $269,103
  • Rudy Mulligan

    Managing Director

    Total calculated
    $172,052
    From this org
    $167,410
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $4,642
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $166,910
    Bonus
    $500
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $3,715
    Nontaxable benefits
    $927
    Filer's total
    $172,052
  • Kimberly Westcott

    Managing Director

    Total calculated
    $145,248
    From this org
    $139,377
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $5,871
    Hours/week
    40
  • Aisha Elliott

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Joanne Smith

    Vice President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Cheryl Wilkins

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mariya Khvatskaya

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Betty Lyons

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Sharon Richardson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5
  • Rosyln Smith

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Coumba Toure

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sharon White Harrigan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $32,656,046
    Expenses
    $2,713,425
    Contributions
    $31,464,084
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $30,979,872
    Expenses
    $12,550
    Contributions
    $30,979,872
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2022

Tax period
1 January 2022 to 31 December 2022
Principal officer
Cheryl Wilkins
Mailing address
401 State StBrooklyn NY 11217

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 2 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

  • TIDES CENTER

    $1,459,854

    2024 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • 2023 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

  • 2023 EQUITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Taxable family

From Schedule R Parts I, III and IV: entities that legally are the filer, and taxable partnerships, corporations and trusts it is related to. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money.

Disregarded entities on its 2024 return

  • WBU Labor of Love LLC

    Real estate · NY · income $4,259 · assets $14,784,928

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.