Sass Go

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
824064223
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2018
Location
Ballentine, SC, USA
Phone
8033177277
Rating
71
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Safety Education

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$251,510
Expenses
$269,638
Assets
$58,996
Liabilities
$182,915

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • SHANNON HENRY (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • SHANNON HENRY (PRESIDENT): $79,897 total reported compensation
  • BRETT BROWN (EXECUTIVE DI): $74,270 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Sass go is on a mission to eradicate assault, abuse, and trafficking against women and girls globally through prevention education, self defense training, and case consulting. Our dedicated team believes all women deserve to learn the skills needed to save their own lines. The women and girls we serve are as diverse in age, backgrouond, and experience as the world they inhabit with over 50 % receiving our services for a free or reduced cost. Together we work hard to protect and support survivors, their families, and the professionals who serve them.

What it reported doing in 2024

Educational programming and empowered self-defense training: through our age-specific, developmentally appropriate educational seminars and self- defense training, sass go is safeguarding lives and making communities safer. As of the end of 2024, sass go has trained and educated more than 27,000 participants. Over 60% of those individuals were served for free or at a reduced cost. In 2024, our 27 taught courses in the us virgin islands, Louisiana, South Carolina, Idaho, Wyoming, Tennessee, Iowa, California, Colorado, Utah, Oregon, Minnesota, Virginia, Washington, Texas, Georgia, and New York. In 2024, sass go continued to reach participants in schools, universities, community centers, places of worship, law enforcement, and businesses. Sass go offered its landmark violence prevention and response education and training, which includes the harm reduction series, the recognize respond refer professional series, and comprehensive self defense training. In addition, in 2024, sass go held the i will survive women's retreats in october. Sass go also partnered with the united nations to offer our training to the women of benin, africa. All of our trainings and retreats are handcrafted to meet the unique needs of the people gathered as they learn to detect threats to safety, respond to incidents of violence, support survivors, know available resources, and raise awareness for prevention. In 2024, sass go continued to assist with the design and implementation of an interactive session on trauma-informed policing. As of the end of 2024, sass go has helped train 90 South Carolina police jurisdictions to better serve survivors of abuse.

Operating model

Revenue model
Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 60
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 77
  • Sustainability: 16
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 68.2%; rating input score 68
  • Program expense ratio: 63.6%; rating input score 64
  • Fundraising efficiency: $2.18 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 10; 10th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 19th 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: 4 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 44
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -7.2%; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.22; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 3.1; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 57.2%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.5% per year; rating input score 100; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 18.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 22.8% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 68.2% of revenue deployed · 63.6% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 9 of 9 board members independent · 4 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $172K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $80K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 24 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 2 filing years from 2022 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 4 filed money-flow records
  • 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: 4 of 8 not reported.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 10/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 26/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 3/100.