Working Group on Girls of Schenectady Inc

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
471840757
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2015–2024
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2024
Location
Niskayuna, NY, USA
Phone
5184285830
Rating
93
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Girls Clubs

Reported finances

Revenue
$26,167
Expenses
$48,475
Assets
$285
Liabilities
$200

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

Leadership & pay

16 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • CHINIRA LOVICK (Co-President)
  • MONIQUE WADE (Co-President)

People named in this filing

  • RACHEL CURTIS (Director)
  • TJESA JACOBS (Director)
  • DANIELA PUORTO (Director)

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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Working Group on Girls of Schenectady, Inc. has been formed to facilitate theeducational opportunities and community projects to promote the scholastic and social development of girls in the County of Schenectady, NY, and to educate the community about the needs, challenges, opportunities and successes of girls in the County of Schenectady, NY.

What it reported doing in 2024

Girls Circles provide follow-up to Girls Day Out and expand on the themes of building self-esteem, exploring options, and expanding their vision of their future. Girls (7th grade through high school) who participated in GDO are invited to join a Circle of 8-10 girls that meets in their school during lunch or after school, weekly or every other week. Women from the community volunteer to be Muses to be trained, to co-lead the Circles.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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: 97
  • Transparency & Controls: 100
  • Sustainability: 7
  • Growth: 80

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: -85.3%; rating input score 9; 9th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.01; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.7; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 76.9%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 9.8% per year; rating input score 100; 71st percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 3.1% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -15.2% per year; rating input score 0; 13th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $44K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 16 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 3 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 10 filing years from 2015 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
  • 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 9/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.