Reaching Our Sisters Everywhere

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
452803568
IRS 990 coverage
2015–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Decatur, GA, USA
Phone
4047194297
Rating
58
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Affiliation
Christianity

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$5,903,987
Expenses
$1,003,925
Assets
$5,899,302
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • KIMARIE BUGG (PRESIDENT)
  • ANDREA SERANO (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • KIMARIE BUGG (PRESIDENT): $134,600 total reported compensation
  • ANDREA SERANO (CEO): $79,168 total reported compensation
  • CARL ROUTE (DIRECTOR): $48,500 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

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What it reported doing in 2025

Reaching our sisters everywhere will provide free training at community centers and churches to train health care professionals and community workers to manage breastfeeding and how to relate to and support and encourage breastfeeding in the african american community. Rose also provides technical assistance to governmental agencies to enhance steps 3 and 10 of the baby friendly hospital initiative, addressing prenatal and postpartum support services needed at the time of discharge. Also establishing and implementing national and regional initiatives that will enhance and strengthen family and community breastfeeding programs such as faith based breastfeeding outreach initiative

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 99% 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

MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. 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: 18
  • Transparency & Controls: 84
  • Accountability: 82
  • Sustainability: 82
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 7.3%; rating input score 7
  • Program expense ratio: 43%; rating input score 43
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 90%; rating input score 90; 5th 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: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • 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: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 83%; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 5.88; rating input score 83; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 44.8%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.1% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 34.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 7.3% of revenue deployed · 43% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $432K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $135K · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 21 of 23 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 11 filing years from 2015 to 2025
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 10 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 43/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part IX OtherSalariesAndWages column sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 2/100.