Girl Scouts of Michigan Shore to Shore
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 381366924
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Grand Rapids, MI, USA
- Phone
- 6167843341
- Rating
- 89
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,609,584
- Expenses
- $4,150,693
- Assets
- $10,958,602
- Liabilities
- $2,617,712
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
24 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VIVIAN TERMAAT (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- VIVIAN TERMAAT (CEO): $138,449 total reported compensation
- ALEXA DENHOF (CFO): $103,075 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
What it reported doing in 2024
Girl scouts' mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Guided by supportive adults and peers, girls in kindergarten through 12th grade develop their leadership potential through age-appropriate activities that enable them to discover their values, skills, and the world around them; connect with others in a multicultural environment; and take action to make a difference in their world. As a result, all girl scout activities are designed to be girl led, cooperative, and hands-on processes that create high-quality experiences conducive to learning. The girl scout leadership experience, the framework for defining what girls do in girl scouting and how they do it, was borne out of years of research and development and engages girls in four categories of learning: 1) stem (science, technology, engineering and mathematics); 2) outdoors (including adventure and travel); 3) life skills (goal setting, making healthy decisions, dealing with bullies, etc.) and 4) entrepreneurship (including the girl scout cookie program). Girls progress through age appropriate programming in these areas through the completion of girl scout journeys and badges.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 94
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 82.5%; rating input score 83
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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; 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: 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: 10%; rating input score 62; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.64; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.24; rating input score 40; 40th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 5.8%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.9% per year; rating input score 100; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 82.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $3.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $138K · 24 people listed
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 16 filing years from 2009 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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 14/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 40/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 48/100.