Amazing Maasai Girls Project
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273462760
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Charleston, SC, USA
- Phone
- 4157154534
- Rating
- 68
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $56,418
- Expenses
- $34,122
- Assets
- $756,387
- Liabilities
- $45,467
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MOLLY FITZPATRICK (CEO CO-FOUNDER)
People named in this filing
- MOLLY FITZPATRICK (CEO CO-FOUNDER)
- SARAH EDSON (VICE CHAIR CO-FOUNDER)
- PAUL ARK (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The amazing maasai girls project was founded in 2011 with the goal of providing full tuition and boarding scholarships to high-school girls from the various maasai tribes in laikipia north, kenya, whose families would otherwise not have the means to fund their secondary education. The mission of the amazing maasai girls project is to help adolescent maasai girls avoid childhood marriage & motherhood, empowering them through education to find employment and independence as adults. The amazing maasai project believes that education can improve not only the current and future lives of girls and their immediate families, but also of those in the wider maasai community. The project is funded through running events, such as the amazing maasai marathon which is held in kenya each year, the global run which is self-supported running across the global. The project is committed to being community-based and community-backed.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provides educational scholarships to maasai girls in kenya
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 93% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 71
- Accountability: 70
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 61.1%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 79%; rating input score 79
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Claims monitoring procedures: Fail
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 39.5%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 22.17; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 15.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 6.2% per year; rating input score 100; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 61.1% of revenue deployed · 79% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $27K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 19 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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: Foreign activity oversight: 8 of 8 not reported.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.