Our Gems

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
455223468
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
Location
Silverdale, WA, USA
Rating
94
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Youth Development Programs

Reported finances

Revenue
$44,188
Expenses
$41,814
Assets
$169,287

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

Leadership & pay

3 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Harriette C (Founder & Board President)
  • Vicki M (Founder & Board Vice President)

People named in this filing

  • Harriette C (Founder & Board President)
  • Vicki M (Founder & Board Vice President)
  • Anjelia Y (Founder & Board Trustee)

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

OurGEMS is a youth mentoring non-profit organization. Our mission is for girls and boys to become successful and influential leaders through a group mentor team approach. We realize our mission by: Developing in our girls and boys critical thinking and strong communication skills. Providing professional career guidance and employability skills. Assisting our girls and boys transition from school to college technical school and or the workforce. Fostering compassion empathy and genuine concern for the welfare of others through civic engagement community service projects and philanthropy.

What it reported doing in 2025

PowerUp! Snack Program: We provide mentoring a healthy snack and a wide variety of enrichment activities for over 400 young ladies and young gentlemen in 19 schools across Kitsap County. The Powerup! Snack Program is an integral part of accomplishing this. For us snacks are a draw to the girls and boys to attend sessions as well as provide that nutritional boost needed to complete their school day. Also includes gift card and incentives for participants academic achievement as well as any mentor expenses 8-10 active mentors.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up and revenue has declined or grown slowly.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 98
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 56
  • Growth: 40

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 97.3%; rating input score 97
  • Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100

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: 5.4%; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.05; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 3.5% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -42% per year; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -1% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 97.3% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 2 filed program accomplishments · $43K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
  • 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.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 54/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.