Firefly Sisterhood
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 464874051
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2018, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Plymouth, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6124127713
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Breast Cancer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $411,612
- Expenses
- $368,492
- Assets
- $493,884
- Liabilities
- $118,145
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- AMY GALLAGHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- AMY GALLAGHER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $105,234 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of firefly sisterhood is to foster one-to-one connections between women diagnosed with breast cancer and inspirational survivors and thrivers that serve as their peer mentor guides. Our goal is a future where no woman faces breast cancer alone.
What it reported doing in 2024
Firefly sisterhood provides one-to-one social and emotional support to women who have been impacted by a breast cancer diagnosis. At firefly sisterhood, we exist to bring light and hope to women on their breast cancer journey. Our unique community and mentoring program fosters connections that extend the patients support network beyond the family and medical community to include amazing women that had similar experiences. Whether you've just received a breast cancer diagnosis or your diagnosis was decades past, we will match you with a guide - an inspirational survivor and thriver whose experience is similar to your own.firefly sisterhood's supportive services are free and delivered at the time of diagnosis, during treatment, and into survivorship. When a woman contacts us requesting support, she is immediately able to fill out an online form and will receive a reply with information on our program and a welcome email with next steps in the matching process. With firefly sisterhood, no woman faces a breast cancer diagnosis alone. Since 2014, firefly sisterhood has matched over 2,500 women impacted by breast cancer with a mentor in our program. We are proud to say that we have trained over 400 breast cancer survivors and thrivers to become peer mentor guides that volunteer their time in our program to support other women in their breast cancer journey.firefly is supported by private donations from businesses, private foundations, corporate foundations, and many individual's generosity.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 60
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 47
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 60.6%; rating input score 61
- Program expense ratio: 67.6%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $6.4 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 28; 28th 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: Limited
- 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- 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: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 10.5%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.34; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 17.3% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 60.6% of revenue deployed · 67.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $249K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $105K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 8 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 28/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 18/100.