First Gen Success
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 833221665
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2022, Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Charlotte, NC, USA
- Phone
- 7048984732
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $53,019
- Expenses
- $29,011
- Assets
- $91,719
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Tameka Beavers (Executive Director)
People named in this filing
- Tameka Beavers (Executive Director)
- Rose Beavers (Sponsorships Chair)
- Betsy Tao (Director)
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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We offer a dynamic and ever-evolving program bridging the generational gap and lessening the constant economic disparities for high school girls who are on the path to be first generation college students. To advance this mission, we offer academic support with comprehensive college counseling, targeted tutoring, test preparation, study skills, leadership training, access to career professionals and ongoing support continution through successfull college graduation and beyond college.
What it reported doing in 2025
We offer academic support with comprehensive college counseling, targeted tutoring, test preparation, study skills, leadership training, access to career professionals and ongoing support continution through successfull college graduation and beyond college.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 47% for direct work, and 53% for grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 47
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 78
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 35.9%; rating input score 36
- Program expense ratio: 65.5%; rating input score 66
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 45.3%; rating input score 88; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.16; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 60.7% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 32.1% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 35.9% of revenue deployed · 65.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $19K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 36/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.