Girlz by Design
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 861908791
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2022
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2022
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2678646887
- Rating
- 86
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Arts Education
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,847
- Expenses
- $4,467
- Assets
- $1,331
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
People named in this filing
- KATHERINE ELIZABETH LOOS (CO-FOUNDER)
- SARAH KATHARINE SIGETY (CO-FOUNDER)
- SAMANTHA TAYLOR CARPENTER (C-FOUNDER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2022. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
We empower, motivate, and educate young creatives in high schools across the DMV region by preparing them to succeed in the new digital era.
What it reported doing in 2022
A two week long design program run in partnership withcapital hill arts workshop. Worked with 10 campersto create a mental health pamphlet for school programming
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 99% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 19
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -16.1%; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.3; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 44.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 46.4% per year; rating input score 100; 91st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -22% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -37.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 2 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2021 to 2022
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 27/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 4/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.