Girls Dream Code
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844468948
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6122174178
- Rating
- 56
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Student Services, Organizations of Students
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $225,596
- Expenses
- $158,135
- Assets
- $263,919
- Liabilities
- $79,988
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
6 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Victoria Kyereme (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Victoria Kyereme (Executive Director): $24,583 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Girls Dream Code is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization aiming to empower underrepresented girls, ages 10-24, to pursue an interest in technology by providing free tech and computer science based programs and resources. Our mission is to promote opportunities in technology, learn tech skills, decrease the gender & diversity gap in tech, increase inclusivity, and create a safe space for young girls to feel comfortable and excel in all that they do!
What it reported doing in 2025
Hosted Code-Sync Labs Software Engineering Internship for young college age women and CodeLit IT Training program for young women.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 82% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% 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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 20
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 58
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 19.6%; rating input score 20
- Program expense ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 28
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 29.9%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.67; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.3; rating input score 13; 13th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.5%; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: 45.6% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 19.6% of revenue deployed · 27.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 2 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $25K · 6 people listed
- Consistency: 41 of 41 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- 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.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 20/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 13/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 22/100.