I Am My Sisters Keeper

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
832950549
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2021–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
Location
Memphis, TN, USA
Phone
9015051010
Rating
59
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Single Parent Agencies

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$61,713
Expenses
$48,731
Assets
$12,982
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

1 person listed

People named in this filing

  • Margaret Cowan (Founding Keeper)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

I Am My Sister's Keeper exists to support and empower single mothers and their children through holistic, community-based services that promote emotional wellness, stability, self-sufficiency, and healthy family outcomes. The organization provides mentoring, support groups, mental health advocacy, resource navigation, life skills development, educational and enrichment opportunities, emergency assistance, and community programming designed to reduce barriers faced by single mothers. IAMSK also fosters sisterhood, leadership, and personal growth while connecting families to collaborative community resources that strengthen long-term well-being.

What it reported doing in 2025

Annual Mental Health Retreat provided single mothers with a safe and restorative environment focused on healing, self-care, and emotional wellness. Through workshops, peer support, and therapeutic activities, participants strengthened coping skills, built community connections, and increased their awareness of the importance of prioritizing mental health for themselves and their families.

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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 29
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 49
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 26.5%; rating input score 26
  • Program expense ratio: 33.5%; rating input score 34

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 21%; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 32.8%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 30th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -47.6% per year; rating input score 0; 4th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 26.5% of revenue deployed · 33.5% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $16K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
  • Consistency: 8 of 9 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2021 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 26/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 34/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.