Glide
Legal name: Glide Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 941156481
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2022–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, United States
- Phone
- (415) 674-6000
- Rating
- 76
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Standard
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $28,318,144
- Expenses
- $28,937,817
- Assets
- $54,682,674
- Liabilities
- $4,386,340
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
35 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR GINA M FROMER (PRESIDENT/CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- DR GINA M FROMER (PRESIDENT/CEO): $433,640 total reported compensation
- ROSALIA AQUINO MCMILLEN (CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER (THRU 09/24)): $292,644 total reported compensation
- LILLIAN MARK (CHIEF PROGRAM OFFICER): $277,682 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
GLIDE is a nationally recognized center for social justice, dedicated to fighting systemic injustices, creating pathways out of poverty and crisis, and transforming lives.** Through our integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, we empower individuals, families, and children to achieve stability and thrive. GLIDE is on the forefront of addressing some of society’s most pressing issues, including poverty, housing and homelessness, and racial and social justice. **GLIDE’s mission is to create a radically inclusive, just, and loving community mobilized to alleviate suffering and break the cycles of poverty and marginalization.** Our Core Values emerge from.
What it reported doing in 2024
All other programs: glide's strategically designed coordinated care model provides services across the commonly used ten health domains model to promote a holistic approach to health and well-being. Through our integrated comprehensive services, advocacy initiatives, and inclusive community, we empower individuals, families, and children with the support and resources they need to achieve stability and thrive.in fiscal year 2024-25:6,443+ people received in depth services such as rental assistance, financial education, parenting classes, recovery groups, childcare and more.our cecil williams community ambassadors, glide's "feet on the street" which provides everything from free snacks to in the moment crisis intervention and deescalation, made 34,747 referrals and connections to services;2,422 people connected to social benefits like calfresh, ssi and/or free transit;2,850 people received free personal hygiene kits, socks, and blankets;317 people received rental assistance;369 women, 75% of whom are unhoused, partook in the programs women's center, offering clothing, emotional support, service referrals and crisis intervention;96 people attended behavioral health and wellness support groups learning skills like anger management and emotional regulation, coping with grief and loss, and early recovery; we advocated with policymakers for housing support, family services, and food insecurity across 23 federal issues, 39 state bills, 16 local issues.glide's center for social justice has taken a diverse cohort of individuals and groups to Alabama. In Alabama, we retrace the origins of racial injustice and to open our eyes to the injustices that continue today.
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 99% 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 most voting board members are independent. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and program spending has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 59
- Transparency & Controls: 96
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 39
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 64%; rating input score 64
- Program expense ratio: 60.6%; rating input score 61
- Fundraising efficiency: $7.32 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 5 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 83
- Compensation committee: Pass
- Independent consultant: Pass
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Pass
- 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: Yes; rating input score 100
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 66th 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: -2.2%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.89; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.4%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8.4% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 19.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -4.2% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 1 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 64% of revenue deployed · 60.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 18 of 18 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $17.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $434K · 35 people listed · 5 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Highest-paid contractors: 4 contractors listed · $783K reported
- Consistency: 42 of 42 current checks pass
- Schedules: 10 filed schedules · includes major donors, grants, executive pay, and related organizations
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 13 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 3 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
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 — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 30/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Federal audit findings: this organization reported findings in its latest federal Single Audit.