Treasure Within
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 834101895
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2019–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2024
- Location
- Detroit, MI, USA
- Phone
- 2487068488
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $94,867
- Expenses
- $96,369
- Assets
- $0
- Liabilities
- $0
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lakina Fulks (President)
People named in this filing
- Lakina Fulks (President)
- Tawana Nawls (Secretary)
- Natasha Lee (Treasurer)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
The Treasure Within program, designed for young ladies aged 9-19, aims to motivate, empower, and uplift participants while building their self-esteem and teaching leadership skills. Our mission is to help each young lady discover the treasure within herself, enabling her to recognize and pursue her goals, dreams, and desires. We believe every girl can be empowered and all girls are priceless, creative, intelligent, and capable of becoming leaders in their communities.
What it reported doing in 2025
During the most recent program year, The Treasure Within continued to provide holistic youth development services focused on STEM education, social-emotional learning, leadership development, etiquette training, and character building. The program served approximately 80-100 students annually across multiple schools and community-based sites, contributing to over 400 youth served cumulatively over five years. Key accomplishments include: * Successful implementation of afterschool and summer enrichment programming integrating STEM, gardening, financial literacy, mindfulness, and life skills * Hosting a formal Crowning Ceremony recognizing girls' completion of the program and celebrating leadership growth and self-esteem development * Expansion of community partnerships to support youth engagement, mentoring, and experiential learning opportunities * Launch preparation for The Kings Within, a pilot boys' empowerment program modeled after the proven framework of The Treasure Within * Continued development of parent engagement initiatives and a supportive resource network for families * Recognition of the Founder with a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award for sustained community impact The organization remains committed to measurable youth outcomes, including improved confidence, leadership skills, emotional regulation, and positive peer engagement.
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 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 91
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 26
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 91.2%; rating input score 91
- Program expense ratio: 89.8%; rating input score 90
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -1.6%; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.3% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 8.3% per year; rating input score 100; 77th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: 91.2% of revenue deployed · 89.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $86K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 3/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.