Girl Scouts of Western New York Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 160743096
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2009–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Buffalo, NY, USA
- Phone
- 7168376400
- Rating
- 81
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,137,336
- Expenses
- $8,287,181
- Assets
- $12,443,126
- Liabilities
- $1,729,023
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
22 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LYNN M LUBECKI EDD (PRESIDENT)
- NKIRUKA MCGINNIS PHD (2ND VICE PRESIDENT)
- ALISON PIERCE (1ST VICE PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JAVEENA EDWARDS (C.F.O.): $159,870 total reported compensation
- CARA BIDDLECOM (C.E.O. (AS OF 8/19/24)): $60,537 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Together with our girl scouts, volunteers, partners and supporters girl scouts of western New York provides experiences that inspire confidence and a sense of adventure, promote belonging and friendship and broaden worldviews.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule o: troops, afterschool and community-based programs: girl scouts of western New York offers accessible programming in a welcoming environment that equips girls to flourish and lead lasting, positive change in their communities. Our values provide girls with a sense of belonging, character development, service to our members and community, adventure and sustainability. These programs engage girls to make new friends, have fun and gain access to a variety of exciting activities through our research-driven program, all with the backing of a supportive network who help build the lifelong skills girls need to thrive. Girls have access to: fun activities, memorable experiences, prestigious awards, travel opportunites and lifelong sisterhood. Girl scouts help girls develop: skills to thrive today and tomorrow; confidence and self-esteem; outdoor, stem, entrepreneurship and life skills; friendships, connections and belonging; and physical and mental well-being. Number of girls served= 10,816the socioeconomic status of our members varies. Grant-funded programming targeted at underserved girls is a part of our council's continuing investment to ensure that all girls have the opportunity to experience girl scouting.
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 96% 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: 81
- Transparency & Controls: 75
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 75.9%; rating input score 76
- Fundraising efficiency: $1.58 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: 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; 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: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: -1.8%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.5; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.7% per year; rating input score 100; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.3% per year; rating input score 100; 22nd 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 · 75.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 20 of 20 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $6.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $160K · 22 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- 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 4/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Other executive compensation review process not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 52/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 52/100.