The Sisterhood Project USA Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
334551676
IRS 990 coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990 2025
Location
Myakka City, FL, USA
Phone
9412242385
Rating
47
Verdict
MIXED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Children's, Youth Services

Reported finances

Revenue
$111,944
Expenses
$83,586
Assets
$28,358
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

5 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Meliss Mangiapanella (President)

People named in this filing

  • Meliss Mangiapanella (President)
  • Josh (Boorum)
  • Kara Micucci (BMAL)

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 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

We are a nonprofit scholarship program that provides children affected by domestic violence an opportunity for healing, self-expression, community, a source of empowerment, a place to process complex emotions and develop essential life skills. We provide scholarships for alternative forms of therapy, such as sports, music and the arts. We give the gift of childhood and the beauty in the normalcies that go along with it.

What it reported doing in 2025

We will continue to use the funds from the Oct 10, 2025, in 2026 in the following ways: For Art & Play Trauma-informed art and play therapy has shown promise in aiding children and mothers in domestic violence shelters, helping to mitigate trauma-related symptoms. Trauma-Focused Art Therapy (TFAT) has also been effective in reducing PTSD symptoms and supporting emotional processing when traditional therapy may not reach. Expressive Arts Expressive arts therapies (incorporating visual art, music, movement, drama, etc.) provide safe, nonverbal ways for children to process trauma, build self-awareness, manage emotional distress, and enhance self-esteem and cognitive function. Music Music therapy helps children find voice through activities like songwriting, improvisation, and listening? especially those who? ve been silenced by trauma. It also creates an important sense of safety and internal resource-building. Interventions combining movement and music build resilience, fostering key qualities like self-awareness, confidence, autonomy, and belonging. Research from Arts Schools Studies from arts-enriched preschool programs (e.g. Head Start) reveal that participation in the arts: Boosts receptive vocabulary (a key school success predictor) Increases positive emotions by 60% over traditional settings Lowers stress levels (measured via cortisol) Enhances school readiness in economically disadvantaged children The Role of Sports in Healing and Resilience: A pilot sports-based intervention showed reductions in both internalizing and externalizing behaviors? like fewer restraints and time-outs? among traumatized youth participants. A recent Swedish study highlighted that an extra hour of physical activity at age 11 lowered psychiatric diagnosis risk by 12% by age 18. Organized sports, in particular, cut depression risk by 35% and anxiety by 21% in boys? and demonstrated meaningful benefits for girls too. Sports offer more than physical activity: kids learn teamwork, emotional regulation, empathy, and social bonding? making sports a powerful source of resilience.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

MIXED - 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 a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 1
  • Transparency & Controls: 86
  • Accountability: 88
  • Sustainability: 58
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0
  • Fundraising efficiency: $1.44 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 91.7%; rating input score 92; 20th 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; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 71
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • 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: 25.3%; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.34; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 77; 77th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 0% of revenue deployed · 0% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 5 board members independent · 5 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 3 filed program accomplishments · $42K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
  • Consistency: 16 of 18 current checks pass · 2 findings to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • 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.

  • High — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 0/100.
  • High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 7/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Functional expense sum did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 18/100.