National Girls Collaborative
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 471608990
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Seattle, WA, USA
- Phone
- 2069149441
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development Programs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $916,915
- Expenses
- $891,547
- Assets
- $149,387
- Liabilities
- $162,118
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- KAREN PETERSON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER)
Highest reported compensation
- KAREN PETERSON (CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER): $103,125 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 national girls collaborative project believes science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (stem) skills can be acquired by anyone and fostered in everyone. Our initiatives build confidence and create a community of "lifelong stem activators." through the power of collaboration, we spark curiosity and develop a passion for stem. We also strengthen the capacity of programs by producing and sharing exemplary practices, research, and program models to create stem experiences as diverse as the world we live in.
What it reported doing in 2025
The national girls collaborative provides resources, strategies, and training to organizations across the united states who provide stem education. The national girls collaborative also operates on a local basis providing support to state leadership teams. Each collaborative has a defined region, acting as a hub for local programs to coordinate resources and reach stem programs in the community. Currently, 33 ngc collaboratives serve 41 states, facilitating collaboration between 42,500 organizations who serve 20.20 million girls and 14 million boys.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 67% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- 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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 68
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 84
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.7%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 74.8%; rating input score 75
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.72 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 62
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- 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: 2.8%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.17; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 1.09; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 11.6%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.9% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 5.8% per year; rating input score 100; 42nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -10.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.7% of revenue deployed · 74.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 8 of 8 board members independent · 5 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $667K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $103K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 19/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 2 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 9/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 33/100.