How much does Girls Rights Project give?

Girls Rights Project reported 47 grants totaling $388,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 58 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Girls Rights Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (44%), Youth Development (10%), Education (9%).

Who are Girls Rights Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health ($100k), Global Fund for Children ($95k), Equality Now Inc ($90k).

Does Girls Rights Project fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Girls Rights Project accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Girls Rights Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Globalgiving Foundation Inc, One Days Wages.

Where is Girls Rights Project based?

Girls Rights Project is based in CA.

Girls Rights Project

Girls Rights Project at a glance

· Private foundation

Girls Rights Project

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$389k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$25k

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 2024.

International$1.2MYouth Development$278kEducation$248kCivil Rights$227kHuman Services$224kCrime & Legal$126kHealth$109kRecreation & Sports$103kOther$0

02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k25 grants · $113k
$10k–50k22 grants · $276k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TANDEM	$25,000
WOMEN MOVING MILLIONS	$25,000
AMPLIFY GIRLS	$20,000
EQUALITY NOW	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$13,000
SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS	$12,000
SHE CAN	$11,000
GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN	$10,000
CAMBODIA CHILDRENS FUND	$10,000
RISE UP	$10,000
EVERFREE	$10,000
FLYING KITES	$10,000
GEORGETOWN INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN PEACE AND SECURITY	$10,000
IMPACT ASSETS	$10,000
TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER	$10,000

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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 77% of those 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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of Girls Rights Project’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 35% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 29%.

Girls Rights Projectlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.3M · 75 repeat orgs$306k to everyone else

75 repeat relationships: 40 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.3M

$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+70%

Still filing today

63%

45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

InternationalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

GF
GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN
8× · 2017–2024 · $95k · revenue +33%
EN
Equality Now Inc
8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +1%
TT
THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $85k · revenue +92%

Funded once

LP
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +8%
TG
THE GIVING LIST IMPACT FUND
one grant, 2023 · $25k
D
DASRAgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue ×12

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.

Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc

Philanthropy

World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services

Global Girls Global Women Inc

A 503C3 Organization design to equip suffering girls and women around the world by helping them gain access to quality healthcare, education and economic empowerment initiatives aimed to foster self-este

Recreation & Sports

Educate Girls

Educate Girls promotes and protects the right of girls to a quality education and works by supporting partners in geographies where the need is greatest to mobilize communities, enroll girls into school and improve learning outcomes. Our…

International

Girls Education Collaborative Inc

GEC partners with locally-led organizations to catalyze and support sustainable, community-driven solutions that remove social, economic, and gender-based barriers keeping girls out of school in under-resourced regions of the global south.

International

Global Glow

Youth Development

Speak Up for the Poor

Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.

International

Women Deliver Inc

Women deliver is a global feminist advocacy organization with a clear mission: to ensure that every self-identifying girl and woman has control over her body and life. see organization's full mission statement in schedule o.

Education

Gender Equality Network Usa Inc

Global Network Building for Gender Equality and Women's Rights Activists: Fostering exchange, collaboration, and mutual support for joint efforts in capacity building and technical assistance, while deepening the understanding of gender…

Civil Rights

Stichting Womens Initiatives for Gender Justice

Ending impunity for conflict related sexual violence

International

The Conversationalist

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Maia

MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.

International

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amplify Girls Inc; the most unlike its peers is Unatti Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 123 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)

71/73

Grantees still filing

53/73

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,163,569International$653,740Education$305,001Human Services$226,868Civil Rights$130,000Philanthropy$126,950Health$102,500

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA25.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · One Days Wages · Together Women Rise · Imago Dei Fund · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Marin Community Foundation

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 Girls Rights Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Girls Rights Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

9get no government money at all

15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

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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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

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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