Girls Rock DC Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263133547
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2026817625
- Rating
- 59
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Music
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $357,965
- Expenses
- $318,604
- Assets
- $263,777
- Liabilities
- $-121
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Noel Schroeder (Executive Director)
Highest reported compensation
- Noel Schroeder (Executive Director): $61,383 total reported compensation
- Amanda Amitrano (Program Director): $48,401 total reported compensation
- Sirra Faal (Communications & Fundr): $35,026 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
GRDC works at the intersection of art and activism, providing music programs for youth to learn, grow, and use the power of community.
What it reported doing in 2025
Youth Leaders
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
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 48
- Transparency & Controls: 93
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 38
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 48.4%; rating input score 48
- Program expense ratio: 54.8%; rating input score 55
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.55 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th 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: Limited
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 11%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.83; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 45.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 18.6% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 7.4% per year; rating input score 100; 54th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 48.4% of revenue deployed · 54.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $175K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 21 of 22 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 3 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 48/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.