Girls Who Code
Legal name: Girls Who Code Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300728021
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2013–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- New York, NY, US
- Phone
- 6463001984
- Rating
- 79
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $29,427,944
- Expenses
- $24,314,829
- Assets
- $82,414,387
- Liabilities
- $7,908,011
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
28 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- TARIKA BARRETT (CEO/DIRECTOR)
- RESHMA SAUJANI (CEO, MOM'S FIRST)
Highest reported compensation
- TARIKA BARRETT (CEO/DIRECTOR): $516,966 total reported compensation
- LAURA MELI (CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER): $311,441 total reported compensation
- DANIEL VOLOCH (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $304,408 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 close the gender gap in technology by teaching girls, women, and nonbinary individuals to code, preparing them for careers in computer science and emerging technologies.
What it reported doing in 2024
Girls who code college & career programs provides a community, both online and on college campuses, that offers networking and continuing education opportunities to graduates of summer immersion and clubs programs as well as to nonalumni. As the number of girls who code college-aged alumni continues to grow, college & careers programs recognize the need to continue to support students to persist in computer science through college, prepare them to enter the workforce, and ensure they have direct access to entry-level job opportunities.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 95% 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 a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and reported officer compensation is a large share of total spending, which may reflect staffing concentration.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 64
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 92
- Sustainability: 71
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.6%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 73.2%; rating input score 73
- Fundraising efficiency: $9.62 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 4 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 67
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Missing
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 86.7%; rating input score 87; 19th 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: 17.4%; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 3.39; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 14.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 21% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 5 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: 63.6% of revenue deployed · 73.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 13 of 15 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 5 filed program accomplishments · $17.8M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $517K · 28 people listed · 4 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 5 contractors listed · $2M reported
- Consistency: 39 of 39 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, and executive pay
- Filing history: 11 filing years from 2013 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 12 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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: Fundraising efficiency scored 37/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.