Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 831771945
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2020–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2019
- Location
- Cambridge, MA, USA
- Phone
- 6175904003
- Rating
- 82
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Voluntary Health Associations & Medical Disciplines N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $367,773
- Expenses
- $573,053
- Assets
- $303,036
- Liabilities
- $20,952
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LILLY MARCELIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- LILLY MARCELIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $129,670 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 resilient sisterhood project's mission is to educate and empower women of african descent regarding common, yet rarely discussed, diseases of the reproductive system that disproportionately affect them. We approach these diseases and associated issues through a cultural and social justice lensas we believe that poor knowledge of reproductive health is primarily related to health, racial, and socioeconomic disparities.
What it reported doing in 2025
Community education and outreach: this core program tackles issues with regard to knowledge gaps about reproductive health and rights as well as diseases of the reproductive system and other health conditions. In addition, we provide education about equity, preventative screenings, harmful medical practices, maternal health, and stress and "weathering" as they pertain to reproductive health. We also focus on in-depth education about preconception and postpartum health.continued onto schedule osisterhood empowerment circle: this program focuses on creating a safe space to explore our reproductive rights as well as our resiliency and strengths while we critically examine the structured inequities that make us more vulnerable to diseases and other conditions of the reproductive system. Environmental justice and reproductive health: this rsp program educates community members about the historical legacy of environmental injustice, including exposure to toxic chemicals and climate change, and its deleterious effects on black women's reproductive health. In addition, we examine racialized beauty norms that drive black women and girls to products specifically marketed to them that contain harmful chemicals.incarceration and reproductive health: this program examines the reproductive health needs and rights of formerly incarcerated women of color in the us prison system. Prisons are sites of reproductive violence as well as reproductive health inequities. Increasing numbers of these women and girls represent a growing proportion of incarcerated people in the us correctional system. The implications of incarceration are profound given that most of these women are of reproductive age and largely from disadvantaged communities.art and reproductive justice: this program uses art as a catalyst - and draws on the sankofa principle of looking to the past to understand the present. Through curated artwork, we tell the stories of historical injustices, but we also honor our ancestors and show the empowerment of black women over time. Consistent with this vision, we educate the public, inspire introspection, and encourage people to learn more about the lives of those who came before them. Many of the pieces we have commissioned shed light on past medical malfeasance and the history of pseudoscience used to justify the institution of slavery and the social construct of race.reproductive health and immigration: the goal of this program is to address harsh anti-immigration policies and the many challenges that documented and undocumented immigrant women of color often face accessing reproductive health and rights services.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 96% 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. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 79
- Transparency & Controls: 92
- Accountability: 83
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 64.4%; rating input score 64
- Fundraising efficiency: $5.03 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 21; 21st 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 87.5%; rating input score 88; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 75
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- 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: -55.8%; rating input score 4; 4th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.53; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 25; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 22.6%; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 17.5% per year; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 2.7% per year; rating input score 100; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.5% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 64.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 7 of 8 board members independent · 6 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $369K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $130K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 5 filed schedules · includes major donors
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2020 to 2025
- 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.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 21/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 4/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 26/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 16/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 25/100.