Glow Up Girl Incorporated
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 881296248
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Lyons, NY, USA
- Phone
- 3158790926
- Rating
- 65
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $184,337
- Expenses
- $128,919
- Assets
- $82,798
- Liabilities
- $5,290
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JOANN SALERNO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- DIANE KELLOGG (PRESIDENT)
- ANDREA MCLEOD (VICE-PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- JOANN SALERNO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $28,025 total reported compensation
- MARY JONES (CFO): $7,763 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The mission of Glow Up Girl is to Incorporated is to support, empower and nurture Wayne County girls in grades 3-12 to become strong, self-confident leaders in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Girls on the Go recognizes that by age 7, girls are less active than boys and this disparity grows as they move from childhood into adolescence. There are many causal factors that perpetuate this disparity.Girls on the Go addresses the issues of confidence and helps girls gain an understanding of some of the natural physiologic processes their bodies go through while introducing them to the joy of physical fitness through exploration of a host of physical activities both inside theGlow Up Girl facility and outside. We were able to purchase 10 bicycles, teach seven girls to ride for the first time, start a riding club, offer opportunities to experience new physical activities such as skiing, ice skating, roller skating and a trampoline park in a safe judgement free zone where girls can relax, engage and get active.We served 43 girls through this program. An outcome of the program is that girls are excited about getting physical as evidenced by their willingness to try new things, actively participate in activities, demonstrate positive engagement with fitness activities and enthusia
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 88% 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.
- 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. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 65
- Transparency & Controls: 91
- Accountability: 23
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 63.3%; rating input score 63
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 90
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 15th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 30.1%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.06; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 27.8%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 35.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 53% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 116.8% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 63.3% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $117K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $28K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 21 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.