Giving Gown Foundation

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
263179512
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2020
Location
Houston, TX, USA
Phone
2818141089
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Community Foundations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$11,249
Expenses
$40,437
Assets
$50,557
Liabilities
$4,021

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Bobbi Jo Miller (President)

People named in this filing

  • Bobbi Jo Miller (President)
  • Melissa Flowers (Secretary)
  • Kelly England (Treasurer)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Giving Gown Foundation is dedicated to promoting confidence and self-esteem to high school girls and strive to help them attend their formal events in style, regardless of financial circumstances. We also award annual scholarships to high school seniors in the greater Houston and surrounding areas that plan to attend an institution of higher education or workforce certification. Alumni scholarships can also be awarded to prior high school scholarship recipients upon application approval.

What it reported doing in 2024

Scholarships/Grants-Giving Gown Foundation awarded 9, $1,000 scholarships to female high school seniors in the greater Houston area that intended to enroll in a full time or part time bachelors/associates degree program, trade or workforce certificate program at a institution of higher education state accredited by a state or nationally accredited agency. The girls had to complete an application, submit recommendation letters and transcripts to be considered. We also awarded 6, $1,000 scholarships to girls that had previously been awarded a scholarship as a high school senior that were attending college. Those girls also had to complete an application. All scholarships were paid directly to the bursar/finance office of the colleges/universities that the winners were enrolled.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and some filed totals do not add up.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 73
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 27.9%; rating input score 28

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -259.5%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.25; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -21% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -19.7% per year; rating input score 0; 15th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 27.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $11K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 5 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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 — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 28/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 19/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.