Educate Girls

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464493359
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2013
Location
Forest Hills, NY, USA
Phone
7185442772
Rating
82
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
International Development

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$9,115,923
Expenses
$6,279,662
Assets
$41,872,385
Liabilities
$31,718,821

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

7 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SAFEENA HUSAIN (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT)
  • CARRIE BERNIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (KEY EMPLOYEE))

Highest reported compensation

  • SAFEENA HUSAIN (FOUNDER & PRESIDENT): $257,127 total reported compensation
  • CARRIE BERNIER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (KEY EMPLOYEE)): $90,709 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our vision is that every girl is in school, learning and completes 12 years of education.

What it reported doing in 2024

Educate Girls awards grants to proximate non-profit partners in India to engage in programmatic activities in support of the mission to ensure that girls are in school and learning well. In the past year, grants were awarded to local non-profit partners working in multiple states, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Bihar. The Educate Girls investment includes multi-year grant awards as a long-term commitment and investment in the villages in which our partners work and acknowledges the commitment to girls education as an ongoing responsibility to each girl once we make an investment in the village. Programs supported were focused on identification of out-of-school girls, enrollment, retention, and learning outcomes of vulnerable girls and also a second chance program for adolescents girls and young women from remote villages to complete their class 10th through open school examination. The total grant expenses include a planned drawdown of multi-year commitments to the villages in which the partners operate programs with a responsibility to maintain presence in a village for 3-5 years to ensure saturation and mindset shift/behavioral change has occurred for future sustainability.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 87% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 76% of its reported program spending out as grants.

The verdict

STRONG - 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 liabilities are high compared with assets.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 79
  • Transparency & Controls: 72
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 73
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 69.8%; rating input score 70
  • Program expense ratio: 94.5%; rating input score 94
  • Fundraising efficiency: $39.85 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Pass
    • Board or committee approval: Pass
  • Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • 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; 72nd 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 31.1%; rating input score 85; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.67; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.76; rating input score 11; 11th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 5.5%; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 30% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 15.1% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 24.8% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 69.8% of revenue deployed · 94.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5.9M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $257K · 7 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • 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.
  • Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 11/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 50/100.