Girls Inc of the Pacific Northwest

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
542073930
IRS 990 coverage
2014–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Portland, OR, USA
Phone
5032300054
Rating
67
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Girls Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,484,754
Expenses
$2,258,744
Assets
$847,028
Liabilities
$87,102

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

28 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CYREENA BOSTON ASHBY (PAST CEO)
  • NADJA SAILESMAN (CEO)
  • GRACE MALANGO-BLAKE (INTERIM CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • CYREENA BOSTON ASHBY (PAST CEO): $203,979 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The mission of girls inc. Of the pacific northwest inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold, providing girls across the region with life-changing experiences and solutions to the unique challenges girls face. Girls inc. Equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Girls build confidence and embrace positive decision-making to take charge of their health and well-being, and achieve academic, personal, and career goals. Services are funded by grants, contributions, and program fees.

What it reported doing in 2024

Girls groups girls groups served 422 girls during the year ending june 30, 2025. Girls groups helps the girls we serve develop the skills and tools they need to lead healthy, academically successful, and independent lives. Each group is made up of 12-15 girls from no more than two consecutive grades. Groups meet weekly (or daily in the summer) with professionally trained girls inc. Facilitators for 60-90 minutes over three eight-week terms (one to two weeks in the summer). Each term, girls groups cover the age-appropriate module of one of our researched, proven curricula, which include but is not limited to the following: leaders in action teaches girls how to overcome relational aggression or bullying; strong movement, strong minds teaches sports and physical activities; work it out has girls learning about skills to resolve conflict, make friendships, and become a role model in their community; operation smart introduces girls to science, math, and technology-related careers; mind and body & redefining beauty teaches girls about healthy body image; time to invent stem programming; media literacy teaches girls to interpret, critically analyze and respond to media messages; leadership and community action celebrates the heritage of girls and women as trailblazers and agents of social change. As a result, girls realize their own power as community resources and trustees of the common good. Groups meet weekly for 60 minutes over three eight-week terms each school year. Groups are open to 2nd 8th grade youth from across the pacific northwest region. Participants are split into smaller, age-specific breakout rooms in each session. Sessions focus on a variety of age-appropriate components of our strong, smart, and bold girls inc. Curricula. Topics range from how to balance media and screen time, to self-care and time management, art, steam, wellness, and movement.

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 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.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - 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: 50
  • Transparency & Controls: 74
  • Accountability: 90
  • Sustainability: 43
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 51.2%; rating input score 51
  • Program expense ratio: 56.3%; rating input score 56
  • Fundraising efficiency: $7.15 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: 2 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 33
    • Compensation committee: Pass
    • 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: Limited
  • 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: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • 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: 9.1%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.37; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 9%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 8.5% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 4.2% per year; rating input score 100; 30th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 51.2% of revenue deployed · 56.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 25 of 25 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $1.3M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $204K · 28 people listed · 2 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 28 of 28 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2014 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 51/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 56/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 27/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 58/100.