Girlspring Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 273237448
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Birmingham, AL, USA
- Phone
- 2059390227
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Girls Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $212,242
- Expenses
- $248,783
- Assets
- $450,160
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KRISTEN GREENWOOD (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- ALICIA JOHNSON WILLIAMS (DIRECTOR)
- ALLY LEONARD (DIRECTOR)
- CRAIG STEPHENS (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Girlspring was formed as an Alabama nonprofit corporation in august 2010. During the initial tax year, the organization held meetings to raise awareness of the entity, develop its website, and organize focus groups to examine women's and girls' perspectives on important issues pertaining to girls ages 12-20.there are many great organizations committed to women's and girls' issues. At girlspring, we bring together the most innovative, creative, and effective women and girls to celebrate, communicate, and collaborate, bridging the communication gap between women with experience and women and girls with ideas and passion. Girlspring strives to present accurate information to girls and young women to empower them to make good choices in the areas of physical fitness, bullying, body image, self-esteem, drug and alcohol use, nutrition, economic security, sexuality, internet safety, and others.
What it reported doing in 2024
See schedule owe accomplish these goals through our programs, which combined, have served 90,000+ girls. The executive director and the board have worked on solidifying our programs and continue to refine them. Our current programs are: girlspring.com: our mobile website and online community provides middle and high school-aged girls with access to reliable and developmentally-appropriate articles, information, and resources; relevant news; girl-related community events; and social interaction in a safe environment that gives girls and young women the opportunity to make independent, sound choices and wise decisions. Participants benefit by building their digital portfolio, interacting with girls from across the country, developing healthy peer to peer relationships, and developing confidence and self-esteem by expressing themselves through essay, poetry and art about issues they are passionate about and are relevant to today's young women. Girls also have access to accurate information on "tough topics" such as bullying, drug and alcohol abuse, and teen pregnancy prevention, just to name a few. Springboarders: (teen leadership group). We developed and launched this group officially in summer 2016. Girls were recruited form a variety of schools. Twenty girls from a variety of schools in the birmingham area meet monthly to discuss relevant issues they'd like to see addressed on www.girlspring.com, and are tasked with creating content for the site to address those issues. Girls also have special access to female mentors that serve as guest speakers at their meetings and offer guidance on a variety of careers. Springboarders help support one another as they navigate the teen years, and learn the value of serving community by volunteering as a group. The girls have taken on more leadership roles and have some have been given access to the backend of the website where they have learned some minor coding skills and wordpress navigation. Gatherings: this ongoing program consists of an annual series of events for girls that supports empowerment and life skills development and promotes overall health and wellness. We offered a stem fair for girls in middle and high school. Internships: girlspring has developed a strong internship program this year, offering female college students the opportunity to learn valuable skills such as editing and graphic design on a wordpress site, social media management, youth program development for girls, and a hands on-approach to learning about non-profit infrastructure. College students with a passion for empowering girls are now reaching out to our organization to request internships, so much so that we no longer have to recruit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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
STRONG - 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 87
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 64
- Sustainability: 42
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 92.7%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
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: 88.9%; rating input score 89; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 29
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -17.2%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.81; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 74th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.6% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 11.8% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 92.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 9 board members independent · 2 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $231K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 18 of 18 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2017 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: 4 of 6 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 57/100.