Washington · Nonprofit
OUR GEMS
OUR GEMS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,614 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($215,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $44k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $311k
- Net assets
- $169k
What Our Gems does
Mission
OurGEMS is a youth mentoring non-profit organization. Our mission is for girls and boys to become successful and influential leaders through a group mentor team approach. We realize our mission by: Developing in our girls and boys critical thinking and strong communication skills. Providing professional career guidance and employability skills. Assisting our girls and boys transition from school to college technical school and or the workforce. Fostering compassion empathy and genuine concern for the welfare of others through civic engagement community service projects and philanthropy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
PowerUp! Snack Program: We provide mentoring a healthy snack and a wide variety of enrichment activities for over 400 young ladies and young gentlemen in 19 schools across Kitsap County. The Powerup! Snack Program is an integral part of accomplishing this. For us snacks are a draw to the girls and boys to attend sessions as well as provide that nutritional boost needed to complete their school day. Also includes gift card and incentives for participants academic achievement as well as any mentor expenses 8-10 active mentors.
$25,000 spentof which $26,000 as grants58% of program spending21st Century Technology & Graduate Gift Program-Each graduating senior receives a new laptop and a set of headphones; gift bag box which includes other items such as custom-made necklaces girls; gift cards t-shirts socks deluxe chocolates candies etc. Graduating cohort size varies with each year. Typically anywhere from 20-65 graduates each year.
$18,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $43,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $173k to $167k (−3%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of OUR GEMS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Harriette C
Founder & Board President
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income fell $30k → $15k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of OUR GEMS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
OUR GEMS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund OUR GEMS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 90% · 2020 50% · 2021 51% · 2022 46% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
90% of OUR GEMS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $30k that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
OUR GEMS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,200 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,200 youth development nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like OUR GEMS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OUR GEMS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OUR GEMS?
- OUR GEMS (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,614 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($215,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OUR GEMS have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $310,614 in grants to OUR GEMS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OUR GEMS?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $215,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OUR GEMS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2023–2025), and the filings of 6 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing