GiGis Playhouse - Des Moines LLC

Overview

Mission

What started as a local Playhouse in a suburb of Chicago has turned into an international phenomenon, spreading awareness and inspiration to everyone it touches. GiGi's Playhouses are Down syndrome educational and awareness centers that provide resources, specialized teaching, and support to individuals with Down syndrome and all the people that love them! GiGi's Playhouse centers evolved into educational centers with a focus on National awareness for Down syndrome. All of our programs are free to our families and are therapeutic in nature. Our literacy program teaches thousands of kids with Down syndrome to read and we are now adding a math program based on the same principles. Each of our programs are designed to work on specific skill development in several areas including speech and language, social, and fine and gross motor skills. Our newest awareness project is our "i have a voice" campaign which seeks to change outdated perceptions and replace those images with beautiful, thoug

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

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

• Financial Efficiency: 85
• Transparency & Controls: 94
• Accountability: 95
• Sustainability: 61
• Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Details

• Where the money goes: 75.3% of revenue deployed · 98.8% of spending went to programs
• Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
• Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $219K in reported program spending
• Leadership: top reported pay $22K · 13 people listed
• Consistency: 28 of 29 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
• Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors
• Contacts: How to reach this organization
• Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
• Related organizations: 16 filed related-organization links
• 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
• Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 36/100.
• Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.
• High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.