The Msk Experience
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 823923121
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2020
- Forms available
- Form 990 2020, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Fayetteville, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4702073927
- Rating
- 69
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Community Service Clubs
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,080
- Expenses
- $4,875
- Assets
- $4,362
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
11 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LAKISHA BENBOW (CEO)
People named in this filing
- LAKISHA BENBOW (CEO)
- LATANYA BUCKNER (BOARD MEMBER)
- KIMBERLY CORBIN (BOARD MEMBER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2020. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The msk experience is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization dedicated to empowering, motivating and educating middle and high school girls and young women in ways that encourage them to live their best lives regardless of their socio-economic status or background. Our goal is to dismantle the misguided notions created by a society that tears down, divides and discourages and challenges girls and young women to change the narrative by creating a community that is truly stronger together. The unique idea behind the msk experience is that we are one female-focused organization dedicated to serving the needs of two distinct populations; middle and high school girls. We meet our objectives by providing intentional experiences specially curated for girls and young women. For our younger ladies, we have an amazing after school mentoring program with a facilitated trauma-informed curriculum and workshops designed just for girls. For our young women, we have monthly outings and events that meet the
What it reported doing in 2020
We launched many virtual events for women and girls including games nights were we provided food gift cards to girls in need. We also provided laptops for students who could not afford them to complete their virtual schooling. We also porch delivered 15 graduation gifts to our graduating seniors. We did not expand our programming in 2020 due to the pandemic.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 81% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 52
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 46.7%; rating input score 47
- Program expense ratio: 77.4%; rating input score 77
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- 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: 39.7%; rating input score 84; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.89; rating input score 19; 19th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 61; 61st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -45.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 20.5% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 116.1% per year; rating input score 100; 99th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 46.7% of revenue deployed · 77.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 11 people listed
- Consistency: 16 of 16 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2019 to 2020
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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.
Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 19/100.
- High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.