Girls Incorporated of Franklinjohnson C
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 310901598
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Franklin, IN, USA
- Phone
- 3177365344
- Rating
- 80
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $423,804
- Expenses
- $436,783
- Assets
- $725,183
- Liabilities
- $27,209
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JULIE ASHMORE (VICE PRESIDENT/DEV)
- SARABETH DRYBREAD (PRESIDENT)
- SONYA WARE-MEGUIAR (CEO (NONVOTING))
Highest reported compensation
- SONYA WARE-MEGUIAR (CEO (NONVOTING)): $77,624 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To effectively meet the needs of girls in the franklin, Indiana community; to overcome the effects of discrimination and to develop a capacity to become self-sufficient, responsible members of their community, while focusing attention on their special needs.
What it reported doing in 2025
Provide outreach services, pre-kindergarten, after school, and summer programming to girls ages 4 through 26.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 74% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- 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: 74
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 90
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.7%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 78.2%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.99 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 27th 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: 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: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3.1%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.66; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.8%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 4% per year; rating input score 100; 46th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.7% of revenue deployed · 78.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 10 of 10 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $341K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $78K · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 32 of 33 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2014 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 25/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 54/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 30/100.