How much does Girl Scouts of the United States of America give?

Girl Scouts of the United States of America reported 107 itemized grants totaling $8,159,612, out of $8,882,298 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 102 and 109 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Girl Scouts of the United States of America fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (97%), Human Services (2%), Environment (0%).

Who are Girl Scouts of the United States of America's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Girl Scouts of Central Indiana Inc ($12M), Girl Scouts of Northern California ($1.5M), Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana ($1.3M).

Does Girl Scouts of the United States of America fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Girl Scouts of the United States of America?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Illumina Corporate Foundation, Aetna Foundation Inc, Publix Super Markets Charities Inc.

Where is Girl Scouts of the United States of America based?

Girl Scouts of the United States of America is based in NY.

Girl Scouts of the United States of America

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· Public charity

Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character.

$8.9M

Granted FY2025still arriving

107

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$4.4M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$57MHuman Services$1.4MEnvironment$263kPublic Benefit$106kEducation$101k

02FY2025 · 107 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 107 grants below total $8,159,612, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,882,298 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $722,686 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k13 grants · $104k
$10k–50k69 grants · $1.6M
$50k–250k23 grants · $1.7M
$250k+2 grants · $4.8M

$22,742

Median grant

States reached

$307M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GS OF CENTRAL INDIANA	$4,358,556
GS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA	$462,857
GS OF NORTHEAST TEXAS	$134,191
GS OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA	$127,076
GS OF SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN	$102,636
GS OF WEST CENTRAL FLORIDA	$90,348
GS OF WESTERN WASHINGTON	$82,351
GS OF THE NATIONS CAPITAL	$78,306
GS OF HAWAII	$75,254
GS OF OREGON & SW WASHINGTON INC	$72,995
GS HEART OF THE HUDSON	$72,037
GS OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY	$69,518
GS OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS	$69,322
GS OF COLORADO	$65,337
GS OF GREATER LOS ANGELES	$63,792

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$59M · 111 repeat orgs$5k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

111 repeat relationships: 105 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

111

Total granted

$59M

$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%

Still filing today

94%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

GS
GIRL SCOUTS OF CENTRAL INDIANA INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue +10% · 39% of their budget
GS
Girl Scouts of Greater Chicago and Northwest Indiana
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +13%
GS
GIRL SCOUTS OF COLORADO
9× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +49%

Funded once

FN
FARTHEST NORTH GIRL SCOUT COUNCIL
one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Girl Scout Council of the Southern Appalachians Inc

To provide direct services to the community for the advancement and development of girls and young women.

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. girl scouts river valleys' purpose is to boldly lead as an antiracist organization that uplifts and empowers every girl to know their…

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of Orange County

Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan

Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character.

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of Central California South Inc

Girl Scouts of Central California South, Inc. is the largest girl leadership development organization in the Central Valley. Our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.

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Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development

Girl Scouts of Central and Western Massachusetts Inc

Provide leadership development programming for girls, ages 5-17, throughout central and western massachusetts.

—

Girl Talk Inc

We inspire all girls to be confident leaders through peer-to-peer mentoring programs.

—

Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey

Girl scouts of northern new jersey provides leadership opportunities for girls ages 5-18 with a mission to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, to make the world a better place. these leadership opportunities allow girls to…

Unclassified

Boy Scouts of America Natl Council 101 Northeast Georgia Council

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by scouting of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of scouting of america, the…

Youth Development

Girls in Stem

Human Services

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Ne Kansas and Nw Missouri Inc; the most unlike its peers is Teton Science Schools Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

106 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 106 of the 112 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

105/106

Grantees still filing

64/106

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Youth Development$48,952,502Other$9,569,656Environment$74,463

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Illumina Corporate FoundationDE35.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Illumina Corporate Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Cvs Foundation · Easton Sports Development Foundation II · Morgan Stanley Foundation Inc · Union Pacific Foundation · Wounded Warriors Family Support Inc · Verizon Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Water Charitable Foundationinc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Girl Scouts of the United States of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Girl Scouts of the United States of America. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

46report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home