A Lady Named Pearl Foundation Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
813096209
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2021
Location
Atlanta, GA, USA
Phone
4043782837
Rating
46
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$25,160
Expenses
$26,767
Assets
$4,116
Liabilities
$38,695

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Linda Fils-Aime (Chief Executive Officer)

People named in this filing

  • Linda Fils-Aime (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Ashley January (BOD, Member)
  • Milca Fils-Aime (BOD, Treasurer)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

A Lady Named Pearl Foundation mission is to shape the confidence of girls and women to become future leaders through modeling, leadership, and entrepreneurship training.

What it reported doing in 2025

A Lady Named Pearl Leadership Academy: In 2024, offer modeling, leadership, and entrepreneurship training to 24 girls age ranging from 9 to 17 and 28 adults age 18 and up; held 3 special events showcasing students outcome

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.

The verdict

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 24
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 21
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 24.6%; rating input score 25
  • Program expense ratio: 23.1%; rating input score 23

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.15; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 9.4; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 22.2%; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -44% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -32% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -11.1% per year; rating input score 0; 16th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 24.6% of revenue deployed · 23.1% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $6K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 25/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 23/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 8/100.