Girl Scouts of La-pines to the Gulf (Formerly Bayou Girl Scout Councilinc)
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 720488660
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lafayette, LA, USA
- Phone
- 3379841142
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scouting
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,680,110
- Expenses
- $2,387,389
- Assets
- $4,644,668
- Liabilities
- $889,541
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
19 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- BEVERLY SMITH-PAIGE (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
- BARBARA CASEY (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- RACHEL BROUSSARD (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- RACHEL BROUSSARD (CEO): $118,385 total reported compensation
- FRANCHESCA POSEY (COO): $89,631 total reported compensation
- KATHRYN HOAG (CFO): $84,149 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.
What it reported doing in 2024
Activities are designed for the development of girl scouts as quality members of their community. Activities follow the traditional programs of girl scouts of USA.
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 99% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 91
- Sustainability: 28
- Growth: 0
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 83.3%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $0.67 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 7 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 78
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: -42.1%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.95; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 32; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.2%; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -3.2% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -3% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.3% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 16 of 16 board members independent · 7 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $118K · 19 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 34 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 9 not reported.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 32/100.