Girl Scouts of Kentuckiana Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 610444698
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-T 2025
- Location
- Louisville, KY, USA
- Phone
- 5026360900
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $9,432,607
- Expenses
- $9,520,709
- Assets
- $21,191,183
- Liabilities
- $3,406,856
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
26 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- MARGARET ELDER (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- MARGARET ELDER (CEO): $160,957 total reported compensation
- JOHN GREGORY CARDWELL-COPENHEFER (CBO): $121,202 total reported compensation
- MEREDITH DE RENZON (COO): $119,817 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. 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.
What it reported doing in 2025
Across a 64-county area that includes the western half of Kentucky and part of southern Indiana, the council served more than 9,000 girl members ages 5-17 and 5,000 adult members. Our program priorities challenge girls to discover, connect and take action in their communities and in their lives. In 2025 our accomplishments can be measured by the successes of our girls. Gsk was home to 6 gold award girl scouts, 55 silver award girl scouts, and sellers of 1.12 million boxes of cookies. The council had record strong girl retention in 2025 (for the fourth year in a row), indicative of girl and leader satisfaction with our hundreds of programs and leadership opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 78% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 98% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 41
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 90.5%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 87.6%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $3.27 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 1 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 17
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Missing
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 75th 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 89
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -0.9%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.23; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.16; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 6.1% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 28th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 13th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 90.5% of revenue deployed · 87.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 23 of 23 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $8.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $161K · 26 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 37 of 37 current checks pass
- Schedules: 9 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 4 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 8/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 39/100.