Girls Incorporated of Greater Indianapolis

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
351337205
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Indianapolis, IN, USA
Phone
3172830086
Rating
66
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Girls Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$2,537,008
Expenses
$1,891,526
Assets
$6,632,533
Liabilities
$268,748

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

20 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • LINDSAY GRAMLICH (PRESIDENT & CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • LINDSAY GRAMLICH (PRESIDENT & CEO): $194,946 total reported compensation
  • MICHELLE FREEMAN (COO): $123,000 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 inc.'s mission is to inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. In partnership with schools and community organizations, we focus on the development of the whole girl. She learns to value herself, take risks, and discover and develop her inherent strengths. The combination of long-lasting mentoring relationships, a pro-girl environment, and research-based programming equips girls to navigate gender, economic and social barriers, and grow up healthy, educated, and independent. Informed by girls and their families, we also advocate for opportunities and possibilities for all girls.

What it reported doing in 2025

Empowerhub is a staff-led year-long program embedded in a school environment that allows for sustained exposure to girls inc. Programming covers a variety of topics including body image and self-esteem, stress and healthy coping mechanisms, college exploration and readiness, career preparation and leadership development, economic literacy, stem, advocacy and community engagement, and healthy relationships. We also provide supplemental activities, including fitness and health, the arts, among others. The empowerhub model is designed to serve at least 45 girls on-site, multiple times per week, through a programming mix of before school, after school, during school and/or school breaks. In addition to empowerhub programming, empowerher delivers short-cycle lessons for our youngest participants. Topics for empowerher cover boundaries, anti-bullying, emotional regulation, and body image, with optional stem activities. Sessions occur in classrooms or group settings with structured facilitation. The program strengthens socialemotional competencies while maintaining emotional and physical safety.under the empowerhub program, bold bash events are school-based introductions for girls to life skills, confidence-building, and positive peer relationships. Activities emphasize communication, leadership, and healthy conflict resolution in a structured lunchtime format. Staff maintain consistent supervision and behavioral expectations to ensure safety.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 92% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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: 44
  • Transparency & Controls: 67
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 68
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.8%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 54.6%; rating input score 55
  • Fundraising efficiency: $5.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd 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: 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: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 25.4%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.51; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 16.8%; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 1% per year; rating input score 100; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 5% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.7% per year; rating input score 100; 37th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.8% of revenue deployed · 54.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $195K · 20 people listed · 1 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
  • Consistency: 35 of 36 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and executive pay
  • Filing history: 16 filing years from 2010 to 2025
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 15/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 19/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.