Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 590657327
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Lake Worth, FL, USA
- Phone
- 5618151813
- Rating
- 87
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $6,526,469
- Expenses
- $5,950,516
- Assets
- $15,905,463
- Liabilities
- $918,702
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
25 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lisa Johnson (Chief Executive Officer)
Highest reported compensation
- Lisa Johnson (Chief Executive Officer): $221,756 total reported compensation
- Lori Ebinger-Sullivan (Chief Operations Officer): $171,687 total reported compensation
- Allyson Maharaj (Chief Financial Officer): $153,861 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
Community Partnership and Grants: Girl Scouts of Southeast Florida continue to expand access to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience for girls who need it most. Through both teacher- and staff-led troops, we now serve more than 747 girls11.6 percent of our total membershipacross neighborhoods where opportunity is often limited. These girls participate in grant-funded programs hosted at community centers and schools, engaging in core Girl Scout experiences such as badge work, advocacy training, the Girl Scout Cookie Program, and skill-building activities that strengthen emotional regulation, confidence, and critical life skills. (continued on Schedule O)Support from the Palm Beach County Youth Services Department continues to be catalytic. This investment allowed us to reach 327 girls and 59 adults this year, yielding measurable gains across five key developmental outcomes. Participants reported increased confidence, stronger interpersonal relationships, improved academic performance, and more consistent school attendancedemonstrating that strategic, community-based programming can change the trajectory of a girl's life.Our Florida Department of Education-funded Get REAL! This program further amplifies this impact for 143 middle school girls in Broward County. Using a three-pronged modelliteracy enhancement through contemporary literature, character development that strengthens autonomy and decision-making, and community service experiences that invite girls to leadGet REAL! creates a pathway for personal and academic growth. Participants show improved grades, higher attendance rates, and fewer behavioral referrals, underscoring the program's ability to empower girls to thrive in and beyond the classroom.Together, these community partnerships and grant-funded initiatives ensure that every girl, regardless of circumstance, has access to the experiences, mentors, and opportunities that help her realize her full potential.
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 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.
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: 84
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 84.6%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.81 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 8.8%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.67; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.2%; 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: 2.1% per year; rating input score 100; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.7% per year; rating input score 100; 48th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 84.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 22 of 22 board members independent · 8 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $222K · 25 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $105K reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 8 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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.