SAN JOSE CA | IRS ruling year: 2011 | EIN: 80-0725390
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Organization Mission
To ensure that every victim of a sexual crime who crosses the threshold of a SART facility or who seeks medical attention and/or law enforcement involvement is provi ... (More)
Rating Information
Great
This charity's score is 97%, earning it a Four-Star rating. If this organization aligns with your passions and values, you can give with confidence.
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This beacon provides an assessment of a charity's financial health (financial efficiency, sustainability, and trustworthiness) and its commitment to governance practices and policies.
Majority Independent Board Members - 100% independent members
10 out of 10 points
Industry professionals strongly recommend an independent governing body to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. We check to see that a majority of board members are identified as independent on their tax form.
Source: IRS Form 990
Independent Board Size - 14 independent members
10 out of 10 points
Industry professionals strongly recommend an independent governing body to allow for full deliberation and diversity of thinking on governance and other organizational matters. For most organizations, we check to see if the organization has at least three independent board members. For large, donor-funded organizations, we check to see if the organization has at least five independent board members
Source: IRS Form 990
Material Diversion of Assets - None
10 out of 10 points
A diversion of assets — any unauthorized conversion or use of the organization's assets other than for the organization's authorized purposes, including but not limited to embezzlement or theft — also can seriously call into question a charity's financial integrity. We review the charity's most recent IRS Form 990 to see if the charity has reported any diversion of assets.
Source: IRS Form 990
Tax Form Disclosures and Policies
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Website Listed on Tax Form - Listed
3 out of 3 points
Charity Navigator looks for a website on the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency metric.
Nonprofits act in the public trust and reporting publicly on activities is an important component.
Source: IRS Form 990
Conflict of Interest Policy - Listed
7 out of 7 points
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a conflict of interest policy on the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy protects the organization and by extension those it serves, when it is considering entering into a transaction that may benefit the private interest of an officer, director and/or key employee of the organization.
Source: IRS Form 990
Whistleblower Policy - Listed
7 out of 7 points
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a whistleblower policy per the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy outlines procedures for handling employee complaints, as well as a confidential way for employees to report financial or other types of mismanagement.
Source: IRS Form 990
Document Retention and Destruction - Listed
7 out of 7 points
Charity Navigator looks for the existence of a document retention and destruction policy per the IRS Form 990 as an accountability and transparency measure.
This policy establishes guidelines for the handling, backing up, archiving and destruction of documents. These guidelines foster good record keeping procedures that promote data integrity.
Source: IRS Form 990
Documents Board Meeting Minutes - Yes
3 out of 3 points
Charity Navigator looks to confirm on the IRS Form 990 that the organization has this process in place as an accountability and transparency measure.
An official record of the events that take place during a board meeting ensures that a contemporaneous document exists for future reference.
Source: IRS Form 990
Website Disclosures
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No Credit
Tax Form Posted on Nonprofit's Website as stated on Form 990 - Missing
0 out of 3 points
For almost all charities, we check the charity's IRS Form 990 to see if it discloses that the Form 990 is available on the charity's website. As with the audited financial statement, donors need easy access to this financial report to help determine if the organization is managing its financial resources well.
Source: IRS Form 990
Financial Metrics
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Liabilities to Assets: Ratio - 7.59%
15 out of 15 points
The Liabilities to Assets Ratio is determined by Total Liabilities divided by Total Assets (most recent IRS Form 990). This ratio is an indicator of an organization's solvency and/or long-term sustainability.
Source: IRS Form 990
Program Expense: Ratio - 75.81%
25 out of 25 points
The Program Expense Ratio is determined by Program Expenses divided by Total Expense (average of most recent three IRS Forms 990). This measure reflects the percent of its total expenses a charity spends on the programs and services it exists to deliver.
Source: IRS Form 990
Additional Information
Total Revenue and Expenses - Data Available
This chart displays the trend of revenue and expenses over the past several years for this organization, as reported on their IRS Form 990.
Salary of Key Persons - Data Available
Presented here are up to five of this organization's highest compensated employees. This compensation data includes salary, cash bonuses, and expense accounts and is displayed exactly how it is reported to the IRS. The amounts do not include nontaxable benefits, deferred compensation, or other amounts not reported on Form W-2. In some cases, these amounts may include compensation from related organizations. Read the IRS policies for compensation reporting
Lisa Blanchard, Executive Director
$69,750
Angela Yeboah, Treasurer
$0
Padma Vemulapalli, Chair Exec Committee
$0
Patrick Hammon, Board Member
$0
Sumati Natarajan, Governance Chair
$0
Source: IRS Form 990 (page 7), filing year 2023
IRS Published Data (Business Master File) - Data Available
Organization which receives a substantial part of its support from a governmental unit or the general public 170(b)(1)(A)(vi) (BMF foundation code: 15)
Affiliation:
Independent - the organization is an independent organization or an independent auxiliary (i.e., not affiliated with a National, Regional, or Geographic grouping of organizations). (BMF affiliation code: 3)
Data Sources (IRS Forms 990) - Data Available
The Form 990 is a document that nonprofit organizations file with the IRS annually. We leverage accountability and finance data from it to form Encompass ratings. Click here to search for this organization's Forms 990 on the IRS website (if any are available). Simply enter the organization's name (The Grateful Garment Project) or EIN (800725390) in the 'Search Term' field.
Impact & Measurement
Not Currently Scored
The Grateful Garment Project cannot currently be evaluated by our Impact & Measurement methodology because either (A) it is eligible, but we have not yet received data; (B) we have not yet developed an algorithm to estimate its programmatic impact; (C) its programs are not direct services; or (D) it is not heavily reliant on contributions from individual donors.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
The Grateful Garment Project cannot currently be evaluated by our Culture & Community methodology because we have not received data from the charity regarding its Constituent Feedback or Equity Practices strategies.
Note: The absence of a score does not indicate a positive or negative assessment, it only indicates that we have not yet evaluated the organization.
This beacon provides an assessment of the organization's leadership capacity, strategic thinking and planning, and ability to innovate or respond to changes in constituent demand/need or other relevant social and economic conditions to achieve the organization's mission.
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's mission.
To ensure that every victim of a sexual crime who crosses the threshold of a SART facility or who seeks medical attention and/or law enforcement involvement is provided with whatever new clothing, toiletries, snacks, and other miscellaneous items that they may need. We provide victims with the resources necessary to take the first step on the road to healing from Gift cards for the purchase of court appropriate clothing for low income and/or foster care survivors; helping to provide dignity and confidence during the court process to Gift cards provided to encourage youth to attend follow up medical and/or counseling appointments.Provides additional resources (clothing, toiletries, etc.) to safe houses, shelters, and group homes for victims who don’t have a safe place to return.
Vision Statement
10 out of 10 points
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking through articulating the organization's vision.
No victim of sexual violence in our communities should ever experience further suffering due to a lack of clothing and resources after he or she receives services from a Sexual Violence Service Provider.
Strategic Goals
20 out of 20 points
The nonprofit organization presents evidence of strategic thinking and goal setting through sharing their most important strategic goals.
Goal One: Financial Sustainability:
a. Improve Grant fundraising
b. Improved Donor management
d. Dedicated staff for development activities
Goal Two: Community Collaborations and Engagement:
a. Improve relationships with politician, colleges, and foundations
b. Improve marketing and outreach programs
c. Increase volunteers and training
Goal Three: Board member recruitment:
a. increase number of board members
b. Improve engagement between board members and staff
c. Strengthen board processes
Leadership
30 out of 30 points
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Investment in Leadership Development
15 out of 15 points
The nonprofit provides evidence of investment in leadership development.
We are making strategic investment in recruiting our board members.
We are building the Board with domain expertise (marketing, technology, fundraising, governance etc.) with demonstrated corporate leadership experience. As part of their natural course, they are typically trained by their corporation itself on many aspects of leadership principles.
We established formal committee structures that are made of board members, staff, and/or volunteers. This helps in transparently training the rest of the members via working together.
In addition, the staff and board members attend various free and paid webinars from FundingForGood, Causey, GiveSmart, Candid, Center for Excellence, Bonterra etc.
For the future, we plan to establish a coherent training plan for staff and board members based on fund availability and/or free trainings.
We also dedicate part of our annual retreat to focus on relationship building between the board and staff.
External Focus on Mobilizing Mission
15 out of 15 points
The nonprofit provides evidence of leadership through focusing externally and mobilizing resources for the mission.
Strategic Partnerships
Social Promotion
Civic Engagement
Adaptability
30 out of 30 points
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Adaptability Statement
30 out of 30 points
The nonprofit has an opportunity to tell the story of how the organization adapted to tremendous external changes in the last year.
Economic uncertainity led to large scale based job reductions especially in technology sector thus contributing to significant reduction in donations from corporations and employees. Increase in inflation, tax increases, unstable job market led to reductions in individual donor donations. Years of confinement due to covid, increase in illegal immigration, homelessness, refugees from war zones contributes to the demand in services. Minimum wage and inflation causes increase in operational costs and cost of goods for services. As a trend, we are seeing significant slow down cash/in-kind donations while we are seeing some significant increase in demand from agencies.
TGGP is able to manage by tightening the operating budgets with laser focus on serving the community. The buffer between funds and demands are narrowing gradually over the past 2-3 years. In the past year, we assembled outstanding development and marketing committees. We are heavily engaged in building up marketing, outreach, and development activities which should start to show results soon. We are investing in technology to automate our operating procedures. We continue building up strategic planning to further solidify the organization, build diversity in board/staff/volunteers, and continue to pursue cross-discipline partnerships.
TGGP showed its resilience by surviving the COVID storm. The organization had to shift operating procedures and fundraising activities. Inventory handling activities had to COVID protocols during COVID shutdown. Fundraising activities had to shift from in-person activities to other mechanisms (mailers, online fundraising, major donors etc.).
We are buiding a stronger organization (skills, relations, committees) to maintain resiliency in the organization. Despite the significant adversaries faced by staff and board members, we are able to continue to serve our client base.
We are a small but mighty organization - we will continue our journey from surviving to thriving.