Style Her Empowered Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
821663175
IRS 990 coverage
2022–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2020, Form 990-N 2019
Location
Garden City, ID, USA
Phone
2085697445
Rating
77
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Educational Services and Schools - Other

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$351,925
Expenses
$255,588
Assets
$244,733
Liabilities
$0

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

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Stacey Targee (President)
  • Payton McGriff (CEO)

Highest reported compensation

  • Payton McGriff (CEO): $61,388 total reported compensation

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

Overview

Mission

We create sustainable education and employment opportunities for girls and women around the world. We provide assistance services and education sponsorships to girls and create dignified jobs for women from low-income and low-education backgrounds.

What it reported doing in 2024

Sustainability: We design products that are better for girls, women, and the environment. One of our signature products is our school uniform that expands with girls as they grow. This dress is designed to grow six sizes and up to 12" in length, and it's designed to help girls stay in school confidently without fear of outgrowing their required school uniforms. It also replaces the need for 5 additional school uniforms, greatly reducing the environmental footprint of our dresses. In addition, we also recycle 100% of fabric scraps from apparel production into reusable products for girls and women. We not only recycle 100% of fabric from our own factories, but we also accept fabric from surrounding factories in West Africa and recycle it into reusable menstrual pads for girls. (Continued on Schedule O)Our recycling program has resulted in 10,000 reusable menstrual pads made from recycled fabric, 7,000 pounds of fabric diverted from the waste stream, and 40,475 school uniforms replaced by our uniforms that grow. In 2022, we introduced a new signature product made from 100% recycled single-use plastic bags. Our student backpacks are now made from recycled plastic bags that we remove from our local communities. In 2024, we recycled more than 250 pounds of single-use plastic into reusable product.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 92% 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. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 70
  • Transparency & Controls: 83
  • Accountability: 79
  • Sustainability: 60
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 61.1%; rating input score 61
  • Program expense ratio: 83%; rating input score 83
  • Fundraising efficiency: $41.71 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: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
    • Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
    • Requires narrative reports: Fail
    • Conducts field audits: Pass
    • 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 8 controls in place; rating input score 50
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Fail
    • Document-retention policy: Fail
    • 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: 27.4%; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.96; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 80; 80th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 24%; rating input score 15; 15th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 21.2% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 26.2% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 27.3% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 61.1% of revenue deployed · 83% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 4 of 4 board members independent · 4 of 8 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $212K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $61K · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 25 of 25 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2022 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.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 5 of 8 not reported.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 7 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 15/100.