Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
590760212
IRS 990 coverage
2009–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Sarasota, FL, USA
Phone
9419215358
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Human Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,024,960
Expenses
$4,872,315
Assets
$14,743,337
Liabilities
$512,359

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

Leadership & pay

14 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Mary Anne Servian (Chief Executive Officer)
  • Juliana Meek (President)
  • Ashley Harris (Vice President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Mary Anne Servian (Chief Executive Officer): $178,411 total reported compensation
  • Marie Graziosi (Chief HR & Governance Liaison Officer): $129,743 total reported compensation
  • Betsy Laughlin (Chief Financial Officer): $128,864 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. Girl Scouting is girl led, where girls work together and learn collaboratively and experientially. Girls work under the guidance, coaching and mentorship of quality adult volunteers, who deliver the Girl Scout Leadership Experience curriculum.

What it reported doing in 2024

The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is available to all girls in grades K-12 in ten counties: Charlotte, Collier, DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, Lee, Manatee and Sarasota. Girl Scouting is a membership organization and open to all girls and their families within the service area. Girl Scouting is girl led, delivered by positive and qualified adult volunteers, where girls together, learn by doing. Girls thrive in an all-girl environment, based on their developmental needs and meet goals to discover who they are, connect with others, and take action by making their community and world a better place. The Girl Scout Leadership Experience is focused in the areas of: healthy living, the environment, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), financial empowerment/business literacy, and the arts. Girls and volunteers join Girl Scouting through a variety of pathways: troop, series, event, virtual, camp/environmental leadership, and travel. Professional staff identify, recruit, select, prepare, supervise, recognize and retain adult volunteers who deliver the program with and for girls. Staff ensure that all girls have access to the program through a variety of marketing, educational and outreach efforts. Financial assistance is available to support girls who might otherwise be unable to participate due to financial barriers. Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida is chartered by Girl Scouts of the USA and aligns with the mission, vision and goals of the national organization. Girl Scouts of Gulfcoast Florida offers two camp properties and three facilities for the delivery of the Girl Scout Leadership Experience.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 97% 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.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Few specific pay-setting methods are documented in the filing; unanswered boxes are not proof of absence and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 84
  • Transparency & Controls: 71
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.2%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $3.09 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 0 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 0
    • Compensation committee: Missing
    • Independent consultant: Missing
    • Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
    • Written employment contract: Missing
    • Compensation survey or study: Missing
    • Board or committee approval: Missing
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • 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: 9 of 9 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: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.03; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 2% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 2.5% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 0.5% per year; rating input score 100; 14th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.2% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $178K · 14 people listed · 0 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 47 of 47 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
  • Filing history: 15 filing years from 2009 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
  • 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: Pay-setting controls scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 9/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.