Brown Girls Climb Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 922371736
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Brooklyn, NY, USA
- Rating
- 63
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Women's Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $150,271
- Expenses
- $138,954
- Assets
- $31,326
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Brittany Leavitt (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Brittany Leavitt (Executive Director)
- Danica Carey (Treasurer)
- Jael Berger (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Brown Girls Climb BGC is a national non-profit which strives to facilitate mentorship provide access uplift leadership and celebrate representation in the outdoors and climbing for People of the Global Majority.
What it reported doing in 2024
Facilitating mentorship providing access uplifting leadership and celebrating representation in the outdoors and climbing including support of Girl Scout Troops outdoor expeditions stewardship leave no practices and leadership training.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 99% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
SUPPORTED - 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: 43
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 31
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 41.7%; rating input score 42
- Program expense ratio: 45.1%; rating input score 45
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 7.5%; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.23; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 55.3%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 41.7% of revenue deployed · 45.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 42/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.