Nonprofit · EIN 54-2105425
WOMENS AUDIO MISSION
Tax-exempt · SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2025 | 990 | $1,859,204 | $1,851,920 | $7,284 | $7,964,723 | $397,179 | $7,567,544 |
| December 31, 2024 | 990 | $2,320,318 | $1,515,503 | $804,815 | $8,060,191 | $399,931 | $7,660,260 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990 | $2,295,631 | $1,629,104 | $666,527 | $7,033,240 | $177,795 | $6,855,445 |
Financial details: 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $1,530,898
- of which government grants
- $392,428
- Membership dues
- $9,490
- Program service revenue
- $131,761
- Investment income
- $196,545
- Other revenue
- $0
Expenses
- Grants and similar amounts paid
- $0
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $150,000
- Other salaries and wages
- $1,185,270
- Salaries, compensation and benefits (total)
- $1,335,270
- Professional fundraising fees
- $0
- Occupancy
- $114,645
- Travel
- $50,130
- Program services (functional)
- $1,678,102
- Management and general (functional)
- $72,892
- Fundraising (functional)
- $100,926
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $8,060,191
- Total assets, end of year
- $7,964,723
- Total liabilities, end of year
- $397,179
- Net assets, end of year
- $7,567,544
- Land, buildings and equipment
- $1,423,680
- Net assets without donor restrictions
- $5,538,041
- Net assets with donor restrictions
- $2,029,503
- Gross receipts
- $1,859,204
- Employees
- 18
- Volunteers
- 12
- Year formed
- 2003
- State of legal domicile
- CA
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terri Winston | Executive Director Officer, Highest-paid employee | 40 | $162,000 |
| Emily Jones | Director of Finance and Operations Highest-paid employee | 40 | $130,000 |
| Andrea Partridge | Director of Development Highest-paid employee | 40 | $125,000 |
| Yuki Richardson | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Hau Yeung | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Gail Romano | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Jaye Sosa | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Allyson Toy | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Yinh Hinh | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ben McKee | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ariella Kelman MD | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ayla Kress | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Karishma Chaudhary | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Maggie Law | Board Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Josina Reddy MD | Board Chair Former | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2024: 15 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terri Winston | Executive Director Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $150,000 |
| Gail Romano | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Jaye Sosa | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Crystal Houston | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Allyson Toy | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Yinh Hinh | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ben McKee | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ariella Kelman MD | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ayla Kress | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Philip Nicol | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Lindsay Romig | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Bari A Williams | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Josina Reddy MD | Board Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Yuki Richardson | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Hau Yeung | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
990 for the year ended December 31, 2023: 16 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| TERRI WINSTON | Executive Dir. Trustee or director, Officer | 40 | $150,000 |
| Carol Varney | Dir. Strgy & Devl | 40 | $120,000 |
| Josina Reddy MD | Board Chair Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Yuki Richardson | Treasurer Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Hau Yeung | Secretary Trustee or director, Officer | 2 | $0 |
| Gail Romano | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Jaye Sosa | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Crystal Houston | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Philip Nicol | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Allyson Toy | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Yinh Hinh | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Lindsay Romig | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ben Mckee | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ariella Kelman MD | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Bari A Williams | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
| Ayla Kress | Director Trustee or director | 2 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- 542-544 NATOMA ST STE C1, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94103-0000
- In care of
- % TERRI WINSTON
- Principal officer (990 for 2025)
- Terri Winston, 542-544 Natoma St Ste C1, San Francisco, CA 94103
- Signed the 990
- TERRI WINSTON, Executive Director
- Phone
- (800) 926-1338
- Website
- www.womensaudiomission.org
- Return prepared by
- E Jones Taxes
California records
California keeps its own records of charities and corporations. Search them by EIN 54-2105425 or by the name WOMENS AUDIO MISSION.
- Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers
- Registration status and filed reports (CT-TR-1, RRF-1)
- Secretary of State, bizfile Online
- Corporation status, entity number, agent for service
- Franchise Tax Board
- Entity status letter (state tax exemption, good standing)
Mission
WAM IS DEDICATED TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF WOMEN IN CREATIVE TECHNOLOGY & DIGITAL MEDIA PRODUCTION. WAM BELIEVES THAT WOMENS PARTICIPATION IN THIS FIELD WILL EXPAND THE VOICE OF MUSIC AND MEDIA, ENSURING WOMENS POINTS OF VIEW ARE CONVEYED THROUGHOUT OUR CULTURE AND SOCIETY.
Program accomplishments
- Girls on the Mic: Music/Media Production Training for Middle/High School Girls (GOTM) GOTM uses music and media tech to connect under-resourced Bay Area girls/gender expansive youth to free weekly after-school audio training. Students learn how to use technology to amplify their voices and stories by creating their own podcasts, radio shows, music projects, soundtracks and more. WAM has partnered with 50 schools/organizations across three cities for year-round programming. In 2025, GOTM delivered 15 weekly workshops year-round that reached 2,197 girls through 29 partner sites. WAM Academy Certification Training WAM Academy equips under-resourced young women each year with hands-on, job-specific audio engineering and technology skills, critical industry certifications (Avid Pro Tools, Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio, and Dante IT), and in-depth career exploration across the prfessional audio sectors. Taught by Women industry professionals, the curriculum includes pro audio production workflow and operations in live sound and recording studio environments. In 2025 WAM academy served 656 women and gender-expansive people. Paid Internship and Job Placement Program WAM Recruits six (6) internship cohorts annually (3 in SF, 3 in LA) for high-school and college aged women/gender expansive people pursuing sound engineering and audio technology careers. This program provides hands-on training, mentorship, and direct industry connections. Interns shadow professionals at WAMs recording studios and with women industry professionals at our partners like Dolby, Sony, ESPN, Apple and major festivals and venues like Outside Lands and the Greek Theater WAMCon Conferences WAMs national recording arts conference series for women/gender-expansive aspiring music producers, songwriters and recording engineers featuring panels, workshops, and networking with industry experts who have worked with everyone from Selena Gomez to Cardi B to Pink and Rihanna. In 2025, WAM hosted two successful WAMCon conferences in Nashville and Los Angeles, reaching over 200 attendees with programming led by Grammy-award winning artists and producers like K.Flay and Suzy Shinn. WAMs Local Sirens Artist Residency and Concert Series Provides free recording studio services ($10K value) and artist mentorship/developement in WAMs professional recording studios to local, under-represented (majority low-income; 100% BIPOC) women/gender-expansive artists each year, as well as paid performances at premier venues like SF Jazz, Brava Theater, Dolby, The Independent, Rickshaw Stop, etc. Concerts are free to the public and accessible to all ages. In 2025, the Local Sirens program awarded 7 paid residencies serving 10 artists total, and produced 4 free, public, all-ages concerts, providing paid performance opportunities to 30 artists for audiences of 1500Expenses $1,678,102
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | 990 on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990 on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990 on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 54-2105425
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2004
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990 or 990-EZ
- Category (NTEE)
- Employment (J21)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $7,964,723
- Income (IRS master file)
- $1,859,204
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990 | December 2025 | $1,859,204 | $1,851,920 | $7,964,723 | XML |
| 990 | December 2024 | $2,320,318 | $1,515,503 | $8,060,191 | XML |
| 990 | December 2023 | $2,295,631 | $1,629,104 | $7,033,240 | XML |
| 990 | December 2022 | $2,675,926 | $1,434,633 | $6,330,449 | IRS |
| 990 | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990 | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 54-2105425).
Questions about WOMENS AUDIO MISSION
- What is the EIN of WOMENS AUDIO MISSION?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of WOMENS AUDIO MISSION is 54-2105425.
- Is WOMENS AUDIO MISSION tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2004.
- Are donations to WOMENS AUDIO MISSION tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does WOMENS AUDIO MISSION file?
- Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.
- When is the next return of WOMENS AUDIO MISSION due?
- The return for tax year 2026 (the year ending December 31, 2026) is due May 17, 2027. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did WOMENS AUDIO MISSION last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990 for the year ended December 2025.
- Who is the principal officer of WOMENS AUDIO MISSION?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 names Terri Winston.
- Who are the officers and directors of WOMENS AUDIO MISSION?
- The 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 lists 15 people; 3 received compensation from the organization, the highest $162,000 (Terri Winston, Executive Director).
- How much revenue does WOMENS AUDIO MISSION have?
- On its 990 for the year ended December 31, 2025 it reported revenue of $1,859,204, expenses of $1,851,920 and total assets of $7,964,723 at year end.
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