Gurls Talk Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
831374281
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2021
Location
Emeryville, CA, USA
Phone
2126971000
Rating
85
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Standard
Sector
Girls Clubs

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$360,449
Expenses
$471,579
Assets
$275,680
Liabilities
$56,391

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

Leadership & pay

8 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • DANIELLA RAVEH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

Highest reported compensation

  • DANIELLA RAVEH (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $134,747 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Gurls talk is a community-led non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the mental health and well-being of adolescent girls and young women. Gurls talk creates safe spaces both online and offline where girls can access mental health resources, share their experiences, and support each other, ensuring they never feel alone or reach a breaking point.

What it reported doing in 2024

Gurls talk fulfills its mission by working directly with girls and their caregivers to close the gap in girls' mental health. We provide tailored, evidence-based resources, practical tools, community convenings, and advocacy campaigns that help destigmatize mental health conversations. Our programs are designed to meet the unique needs of girls building their resilience, confidence, and sense of belonging while also equipping caregivers with the knowledge and skills to better support the girls in their care.in 2024, the following specific programs were carried on: coach in your corner: a yearlong program to train sports coaches of adolescent girls in mental health literacy; psychoeducation: free evidence-based mental health resources; community submissions: essays, art, poetry submitted by community members; campaigns: advocacy campaigns to de-stigmatize mental health topics; community events: convening community members from in-person panel discussions, activities and mental health trainings; and parent research: original research with parents and teens to provide guidance to parents on care for their teens.

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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 88
  • Transparency & Controls: 93
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 83.7%; rating input score 84
  • Fundraising efficiency: $12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 13th 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 4 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -30.8%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.58; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.2; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 28.6%; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 33.9% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 41.3% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 43% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 83.7% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 7 of 7 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $394K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 8 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 26 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • 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.

  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 44/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 28/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 12/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 20/100.