Coptic Orphans Support Association

What it reported doing in 2025

Community development program - the valuable girl project is a multi-faceted development program that targets marginalized girls and young women in high-poverty areas in egypt. Valuable girl's main goal is to empower girls on intrapersonal, interactional, and behavioral levels by investing in their potential and enabling them to maximize their influence in their communities. The project brings together muslim and christian girls (ages 7 - 22) in a big sisterlittle sister mentorship arrangement that promotes peaceful co-existence, strengthens girls' understanding of their rights, improves academic retention rates, along with other positive social and economic outcomes. This unique opportunity empowers girls and young women to continue their education, raise their self-esteem, develop decision-making and leadership skills, raise awareness on gender-based violence and most importantly, reduce their social isolation and break the barriers of sectarianism.since its inception over 20 years ago, the project has operated in 214 sites across egypt and empowered more than 19,300 girls and young women. In the current cycle (2024-2026), the project operates in 30 locations in five governorates, namely minya, sohag, asyut, qena and luxor targeting 3,000 girls and young women and building the capacity of 120 on-site staff members from 30 community development associations (cdas).the 21 program is a fully paid trip by coptic orphans that aims to give coptic young adults in the diaspora the opportunity to serve in egypt while learning about their heritage and coptic identity. While in egypt, fellows of the 21 program serve coptic orphans children, visit churches and cultural sites, and strengthen their ties with their roots and heritage. Participants were selected based on certain criteria. In 2025, 130 fellows served roughly 2,700 children in egypt in two different groups from june 6 to june 30 and from july 12 to august 4.serve to learn is a dynamic program that strengthens the ties of coptic diaspora volunteers (second and third generation egyptians) with their homeland, egypt, through serving underprivileged children over a span of three weeks. The program strives to provide youth the hands-on experience and enables them not only to witness the challenges underserved children face, but actively participate in the effort to improve their lives by contributing to their education. By living in their villages, teaching in classrooms, visiting their homes, and engaging with their community, the volunteers receive a multi-dimensional view of a not alone child. The immersive nature of the experience lets volunteers see a child from multiple vantages to give them a deeper and more insightful understanding of each child beyond the veneer of poverty. Upon their return, they are equipped to advocate as ambassadors for the cause of disadvantaged children in egypt. Serve to learn volunteers and alumni then become the driving force for future development of the country. In 2025, the serve to learn program brought 19 volunteers to serve roughly 450 children in egypt from january 18 to february 8.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 77.2%; rating input score 77
• Program expense ratio: 85.5%; rating input score 86
• Fundraising efficiency: $9.76 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
  • Compensation committee: Missing
  • Independent consultant: Pass
  • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
  • Written employment contract: Missing
  • Compensation survey or study: Pass
  • Board or committee approval: Pass
• Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: Pass
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 11.9%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.39; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 11.5% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 9.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 15.4% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings