Courageous Girls

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471636369
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2022
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2019
Location
San Francisco, CA, USA
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Mental Health, Crisis Intervention N.E.C.

Reported finances

Revenue
$100,397
Expenses
$88,300
Assets
$12,127

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Silvia Vasquez Lavado (President)

People named in this filing

  • Laura Rodriguez (Secretary)
  • Marianela Macedo (Treasury)
  • Silvia Vasquez Lavado (President)

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 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Courageous Girls mission is to provide the healing and empowering of sexually abused girls through physical creative somatic and mindfulness techniques. These programs will benefit the vulnerable young women survivors living in the San Francisco Bay Area and in other places in the world. Our vision is a world in which survivors of sexual abuse realize they have the power to achieve anything they want and believe that nothing can hold them back from the beautiful life they deserve

What it reported doing in 2022

In 2022 Courageous Girls allocated $30,000 to establish the Trekking Leadership Academy in Nepal a key part of our Healing with the Outdoors initiative. This program trained over 200 young women-many survivors of sex trafficking and abuse-through a six-month intensive in trekking and guiding. Beyond outdoor survival skills the program fostered financial independence and leadership opportunities in their communities. Funding covered essential trekking equipment collaboration with local communities compensation for professional guides and leadership and resilience training. This initiative provided not just technical expertise but a pathway to empowerment economic stability and self-sufficiency. By transforming trauma into strength Courageous Girls helped these women reclaim their futures through nature skill-building and community support.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and program spending has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 59
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 40
  • Growth: 60

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 55.8%; rating input score 56
  • Program expense ratio: 63.5%; rating input score 63

Transparency & Controls

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

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 12%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.14; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -1.8% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 17.2% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 55.8% of revenue deployed · 63.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $56K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2015 to 2022
  • 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.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 56/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 13/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.