318 Foundation Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

Our 318 vision program is dedicated to empowering high school girls with transformative opportunities for self-discovery, focusing on the pillars of voice, identity, success, innovation, opportunity, and networking (vision). To achieve this, we have cultivated a diverse and dedicated group of mentors comprising executives, athletes, entrepreneurs, influencers, and college students, all of whom are eager to share their life experiences. These mentors engage with our youth participants, called visionaries, building meaningful mentor-mentee relationships. In the majority of our schools, we work with students daily for 1-2 hours collaborating closely with lead teachers and school principals, leveraging their strong relationships to effectively motivate the visionaries. Each programmatic theme lasts over the course of one month, with some themes extending based on the needs of the visionaries. Our proprietary curriculum enhances academic skills like writing and critical thinking, fostering self-discovery and personal growth. Our approach prioritizes mentorship as critical engagement, shifting the deficit-based models to empower students to enter classrooms and communities with confidence and agency. In 2023, we focused on visionaries advocating for themselves by understanding the power of their voice. Our curriculum includes lessons around understanding personal strengths and articulating thoughts, which creates opportunities for us to teach lessons on public speaking. While engaging in these lessons, visionaries practice new skills amongst their peers, community members, and collegiate and professional mentors. Vision brings together the expertise of youth workers and educators to create a collaborative and student-centered learning environment. Our focus on giving power back to both students and teachers transforms systems by prioritizing student voice and critical thinking over passive learning. This approach has engaged more parents as students share their experiences at home, leading to increased interest and support for our program. Empowering students and redefining the educational landscape prepares visionaries for success and walks alongside parents and guardians in this effort. Our program revitalizes traditional mentoring by introducing girls to new career opportunities that might be unavailable in their immediate communities. We've developed an innovative delivery model that unlocks doors to unexplored career paths and established extended mentorship networks. Unlike conventional mentoring, we offer a diverse menu of mentorship options through our programs. This allows girls to choose support tailored to their aspirations, creating a personalized and impactful experience. We broaden their horizons and empower them to envision careers beyond their local community. For example, in places like shreveport, la, where nursing roles often dominate the workforce, our program introduces girls to mentors who share their experiences, offering a glimpse of various career options beyond nursing. The action program is the dynamic out-of-school programming of vision, offering an enriching journey of personal growth and leadership development. Through immersive experiences, including domestic and international travel, community engagement, leadership conferences, college tours, and career enrichment opportunities, action seeks to expand horizons, ignite passions, and equip girls with the tools they need to thrive. Some of the experiences weve curated include group dinners, holiday parties for visionaries and their families, a week-long summer youth leadership conference attended by two visionaries, and a 3-day action trip that consisted of three college tours to xavier university (see powerful video here), baton rouge community college and Louisiana state university. This trip allowed visionaries to experience multiple iterations of what postsecondary academics look like. In addition to the college tours, the visionaries participated i

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 62.3%; rating input score 62
• Program expense ratio: 76.6%; rating input score 77
• Fundraising efficiency: $27.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 22nd 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: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 18.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 51; 51st percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 13.6%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 45% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 41.5% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 33.1% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings