Girls Rugby Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 824584289
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Westminster, CO, USA
- Phone
- 3037091351
- Rating
- 73
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Soccer
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $367,419
- Expenses
- $332,361
- Assets
- $110,920
- Liabilities
- $709
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
12 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Erin Kennedy (CEO)
- Julie Silverstein (President)
- Amanda Sonneborn (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Erin Kennedy (CEO): $58,670 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Girls Rugby is to empower young girls to reach their potential through sport by combining flag rugby with a leadership and values-based curriculum.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025, Girls Rugby continued to expand its mission of empowering girls to reach their potential through sport by delivering youth flag rugby programs combined with a leadership and values-based curriculum for girls ages 614. During the year, Girls Rugby served 1,207 registered participants, including 818 players in seasonal programs and 389 participants in off-season clinics, across 7 states, 12 programs, and 35 locations. Participants engaged in more than 17,000 hours of physical activity through weekly practices and game days designed to promote teamwork, leadership, confidence, and enjoyment of sport. A significant portion of participants were introduced to rugby for the first time, with 41% reporting that 2025 was their first experience playing the sport, demonstrating the organizations continued success in expanding access to new athletes and communities. Girls Rugby's programming is delivered through a combination of dedicated staff and a strong volunteer network. In 2025, 20 program staff members and 172 volunteer coaches supported the organization's operations and on-field delivery. Program evaluation through end-of-season surveys demonstrated strong impact outcomes: 81% of participants reported increased confidence, 86% reported making new friends, and 90% reported becoming better teammates, while 84% of players reported loving the season and 90% loved their coaches. Girls Rugby also prioritizes a family-centered approach, creating inclusive environments where parents and caregivers feel connected to the program and community. These results demonstrate the organization's continued success in using sport as a platform to build leadership skills, foster belonging, and create positive youth development experiences for girls and their families.
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 - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 74
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.4%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 70.1%; rating input score 70
- Fundraising efficiency: $17.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 52; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th 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: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- 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: 9.5%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 42; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 17.7%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -4.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 88th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 8.4% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.4% of revenue deployed · 70.1% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 11 of 12 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $233K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $59K · 12 people listed
- Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2025
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 52/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 56/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 20/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 42/100.