Stellas Girls Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 814402162
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2022, Form 990-N 2021
- Location
- Hughesville, MD, USA
- Phone
- 2406600846
- Rating
- 62
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $358,729
- Expenses
- $321,614
- Assets
- $372,140
- Liabilities
- $-38,563
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Dyana Jameas (CEO)
- Nicole Turner (Vice President)
Highest reported compensation
- Dyana Jameas (CEO): $80,695 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To educate and empower youth and young women to become social change agents and leaders through STEAM education, mentorship, and leadership development across Africa and Maryland."
What it reported doing in 2024
The Peers Against Tobacco ambassador program, funded through Charles County Health Department, focuses on youth substance use prevention and education. Program enhancement began in 2023, incorporating evidence-based practices and peer-to-peer education models. Program integrates with ACEs (Adverse Childhood Experiences) awareness and social skills development. Impact measured through youth engagement, peer education sessions, and community outreach initiatives." The Red Flower Code initiative, funded through Charles County Health Department, addresses period poverty and provides comprehensive menstrual health education. The program focuses on: Providing menstrual health education and resources Reducing stigma through community education and awareness Ensuring access to menstrual products for underserved populations Integrating health education with social-emotional learning (SEL) Training peer educators and community advocates
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Grant-funded. 97% of the money available for current operations came from government grants.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 90% 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of voting board members are independent and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 71
- Transparency & Controls: 81
- Accountability: 10
- Sustainability: 43
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 76.7%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: $22.35 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 81.8%; rating input score 82; 1st percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 100%; rating input score 100; 80th percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 0%; rating input score 0; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 2 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 25
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- 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: 10.3%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.16; rating input score 44; 44th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 25.1%; rating input score 14; 14th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 120.7% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 29.4% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 47.8% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 76.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 0 of 5 board members independent · 2 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $247K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 22 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules · includes grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Accountability: Independent voting board scored 0/100.
- High — Accountability: Governance controls: 5 of 7 not reported.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 44/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 14/100.