Democrashe
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861626430
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Phone
- 3104039719
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Educational Services and Schools - Other
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $354,878
- Expenses
- $239,769
- Assets
- $274,807
- Liabilities
- $4,456
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- SARAH JAKLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- SARAH JAKLE (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $77,308 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Democrashe is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to inspiring and empowering intersectional female-identifying high school students to become future elected leaders. We encourage young women to elevate their voices through self-advocacy, civic engagement, and community building, empowering a new generation of female voters, advocates, and elected officials. Democrashe creates a safe, brave, joyful space where young women receive the support and guidance they need to pursue the roles they deserve. As an organization we are committed to serving all women, and as such we strive to be actively anti-racist and intersectional. The graduates of our program see civic engagement as their responsibility and running for office as their birthright.
What it reported doing in 2025
Democrashe training program - democrashe trains high school girls to be civic leaders in a supportive environment that teaches them about local and national government while providing foundational training in leadership and resilience. The curriculum includes concepts in brain science to explain why some of the resiliency skills can help them thrive in an challenging environment and feel comfortable stepping forward to be visible leaders. The workshops involve peer leaders as well as additional facilitators.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 89% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 72% for direct work, and 28% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 56
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 69
- Sustainability: 57
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 50.3%; rating input score 50
- Program expense ratio: 74.4%; rating input score 74
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.36 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 32.4%; rating input score 82; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.15; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 32.2%; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.9% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.6% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 50.3% of revenue deployed · 74.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $178K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $77K · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 50/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 36/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 45/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 10/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.