Pine Ridge Girls School Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 463668492
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2014–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Porcupine, SD, USA
- Phone
- 7202013326
- Rating
- 83
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Elementary, Secondary Education, K - 12
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $804,152
- Expenses
- $818,189
- Assets
- $370,643
- Liabilities
- $36,583
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
13 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Carole Goldberg (Vice President)
- Victoria Shorr (President)
Highest reported compensation
- Christopher Bordeaux (Director): $30,046 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
By 2020, the Pine Ridge Girls' School aims to be recognized as a top independent 6-12 Secondary School and set a new national standard by sending 100% of our first graduating class of Oglala Lakota girls off to college. Our goal is to create a model of Native American education in The Pine Ridge Girls' School--that not only benefits the Oglala Lakota, but also stands as a beacon for Native communities across the country to follow.
What it reported doing in 2024
Pine Ridge Girls School has a decolonized approach to learning-a journey in partnership with families, educators, tribal leaders, food sovereignty initiatives, activists and organizers, and land-based science instructors. Our program cultivates a growth mindset and supports these youth to overcome personal trauma and academic barriers, resulting in our students gaining the confidence that feeds their self-worth and identity and allows them to succeed in education, find their voice, and seize their potential as a change-maker. Our supportive, culturally immersive, inquiry-based curriculum and all-girls environment is otherwise unavailable to these youth. Pine Ridge Girls School serves as a magnet school for Native American girls across all Seven Council Fires. Our long-term goal is to offer this empowering education to 250 young women each year.
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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 89
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 92.2%; rating input score 92
- Program expense ratio: 90.6%; rating input score 91
- Fundraising efficiency: $33.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 90.9%; rating input score 91; 8th 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: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.7%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.45; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 3.7%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 13.1% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.6% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 92.2% of revenue deployed · 90.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 12 of 12 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $742K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $30K · 13 people listed
- Consistency: 40 of 41 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2014 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 31/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule G fundraiser detail did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.