Girls on the Run - Western MA Council
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 473612764
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Northampton, MA, USA
- Phone
- 4136872726
- Rating
- 74
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $644,642
- Expenses
- $491,629
- Assets
- $761,108
- Liabilities
- $8,468
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jessica Holloway (President)
- Lisa Bakowski (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Alison Berman (Executive Dir.): $63,188 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate and prepare girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living through an interactive learning program that combines training for a running event with life-changing, self-esteem-enhancing, confidence-building lessons and activities that encourage emotional, social, mental, physical and spiritual development
What it reported doing in 2024
Girls on the Run Western MA inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using fun, experience-based curricula that creatively integrates running. As the only national physical activity-based, positive youth development PA-PYD program for girls with an evidence-based curriculum, trained coaches, and a commitment to serving all girls, Girls on the Run makes a stronger impact than organized and physical education programs in teaching life skills such as managing emotions, resolving conflict, helping others, and making intentional decisions. The programs intentional suite of curricula is designed to enhance girls social, psychological, and physical skills and behaviors to successfully navigate life experiences. The program culminates with girls positively impacting their communities through a service project and completing a celebratory, non-competitive 5K event providing the framework for confidence through accomplishment. The program serves all 4 Western MA counties- Hampden, Hampshire, Berkshire and Franklin, and serves approximately 2000 youth a year
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 72
- Transparency & Controls: 86
- Accountability: 58
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 69.1%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 87.9%; rating input score 88
- Fundraising efficiency: $10.1 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 0 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 0
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Fail
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Fail
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 23.7%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.55; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 12.9%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 21.6% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 31.7% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 69.1% of revenue deployed · 87.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 0 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $432K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $63K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 7 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 38/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 28/100.