Girls on the Run of Silicon Valley Inc
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to inspire girls to be joyful , healthy and confident using a fun, experience based curriculum which creatively integrates running while preparing the girls to participate in an end of season celebratory 5k running event.
What it reported doing in 2024
Girls on the run of silicon valley gotrsv is a life changing after school program for 8-14 year old girls. Our goal is to educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self respect and healthy living. Girls meet in small teams twice weekly for ten weeks. Through our lessons, girls are empowered with greater self awareness, a sense of achievement and a foundation in team building to help them become strong, self confident women who embrace their own unique qualities. We serve girls from all income levels, backgrounds and athletic abilities and provide scholarships to all participants in need of financial assistance. Girls on the run of silicon valley served 1,363 girls at 75 sites in fiscal year 2024-2025.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- 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
- 010628076
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Los Gatos, CA, USA
- Phone
- 4085158233
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Amateur Sports
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $746,854
- Expenses
- $747,430
- Assets
- $412,456
- Liabilities
- $28,765
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 82
- Transparency & Controls: 61
- Accountability: 86
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 88.3%; rating input score 88
- Program expense ratio: 88.1%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.57 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Missing
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 92.9%; rating input score 93; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Pass
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.1%; rating input score 35; 35th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.55; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.4%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 4.6% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.8% per year; rating input score 100; 29th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 88.3% of revenue deployed · 88.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $658K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $175K · 15 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
- Filing history: 14 annual filings from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 — Transparency & Controls: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 35/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 47/100.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
Highest reported compensation
- Kathleen Nester: $174,979 total reported compensation
- MELISSA WATKINS (Executive Dir.): $29,774 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024.