Project Soar Marrakech

What it reported doing in 2024

Project soar operates in morocco's most underserved areas where teen girls face numerous barriers to empowerment, particularly in rural and semi-rural areas. Teen girls in these underserved communities remain vulnerable to abuse and at risk of dropping out of school and early marriage. Teen girls in underserved areas are highly vulnerable to child labor, child marriage, early motherhood, and gender-based violence that prevents them from full participation in their communities. The soar solution's single focus is to empower teen girls from the most marginalized communities.the overarching goal of project soar in a box core program empowers teen girls to stay in school, avoid child marriage, and gain skills useful for future employment.our mission is to empower marginalized teen girls to be leaders. Our signature 25 workshop curriculum in arabic and english helps girls launch their own girl leader clubs and understand their value, voice, body, rights and path. Our data-proven project improves school and life outcomes for marginalized girls.30,200 soar girls beneficiaries to date: girls aged 12 to 18 attending public middle and high schools, who typically live on less than $1 per day. They come from under served rural or semi-rural areas where they are highly vulnerable to child marriage and gender-based violence.7,000+ hours of empowerment workshops delivered: our award-winning empowerment curriculum, taught in arabic and english, is based on project soar's 5 principles of empowerment and help under served, marginalized girls understand their value, voice, body, rights & path.193 soar locations: our replicable, scalable model has allowed us to scale to 188 locations in morocco, ouganda, ivory coast and guinee.

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 88.8%; rating input score 89
• Program expense ratio: 84.2%; rating input score 84
• Fundraising efficiency: $41.12 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 73; 73rd percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
  • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
  • Requires narrative reports: Fail
  • Conducts field audits: Fail
  • May suspend future funding: Fail
  • Requires financial reports: Pass
  • Conducts site visits: Fail
  • Requires grant agreements: Fail
  • May require repayment: Fail
• Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• 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 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Fail
  • CEO compensation review process: Fail
  • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Missing
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -5.5%; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.66; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 22.3%; rating input score 17; 17th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 26.3% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 22.4% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings