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Alliance for Girls

Alliance for Girls (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,249,412 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE FDN DBA BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA FDN ($2,833,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.2M
Funders on record
39
Grants received
$8.2M
Net assets
$2.5M
24/39 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Alliance for Girls does

Mission

to prepare today's girls to be the leaders, agents of change, and thriving women of tomorrow. We mobilize girls' champions to address barriers facing girls, create conditions for their success, and advance systemic change to achieve equity.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Research:- Curated and dissemniated existing research-Produced propietary research that elevates girls' voices and experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area- Translated research into action in collaboration and paternship with organizations, schools, funders and elected officials, to implement practices and policies are responsive to girls

    $572,258 spent$83,535 earned by the program
    51% of program spending
  2. General Program Services & Advocacy:- Established stronger online platforms for administering programs and services for constituents-Improved online communications and marketing-AFG engaged its membership and the girls they serve through a series of public events to educate the public regarding the unique needs of girls, based on AFG's original research, and identify areas of focus for enacting systemic hange. AFG identified four key areas including safety from gender-based violence, enhanced safety net and resources, support for young mothers, and disaggregated data on the needs of girls and young women.

    $349,480 spent$1,000 earned by the program
    31% of program spending
  3. Member Services & Capacity Building:-AFG helped leaders become stronger and more effective in supporting girls after school, in class and in their communities. We did this through professional development opportunities like workshops, webinars, peer-to-peer mentoring and leadership committees.-Faciliatated multiple collaborations amoung girls organizations, thereby increasing the capcaity of individual organizations and their impact on girls.-Faciliated active online communicty for members to share resources, opportunities and refer girls.

    $195,069 spent$7,362 earned by the program
    17% of program spending
  4. Young Womens Leadership Board:-Trained youth leaders of diverse backghrouns on youth participatory action reasearch and leveraged findings to inform the work of Alliance for GirlsStatewide Expansion:-Produced proprietary research that elevates girls' voices and experiences in Los Angeles County.

    $5,454 spent
    0% of program spending
  5. School Partnerships and Statewide Expansion:- To improve service provisions withing agencies and organizations that serve girls and gender expansive you through trainings on best practices in the field. -To support girls and gender-expansive youth's safety, well-being, and opportunities at the community, local, district, county, and state level.

The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,122,261.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($1.2M) Expenses 100 ($395k) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2019 Revenue 52 ($640k) Expenses 201 ($795k) Net assets 89 ($1.2M)2020 Revenue 168 ($2.1M) Expenses 236 ($933k) Net assets 175 ($2.3M)2021 Revenue 97 ($1.2M) Expenses 287 ($1.1M) Net assets 179 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 187 ($2.3M) Expenses 355 ($1.4M) Net assets 232 ($3.0M)2023 Revenue 75 ($914k) Expenses 333 ($1.3M) Net assets 208 ($2.7M)2024 Revenue 94 ($1.2M) Expenses 359 ($1.4M) Net assets 190 ($2.5M)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (94)Expenses (359)Net assets (190)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.3M to $2.5M (+85%).

$1.3M
$1.3M
$2.5M
$2.4M
$3.1M
$2.8M
$2.5M
2018201920202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 8% · 2023 2% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

87% of Alliance for Girls’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,038 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$827k
’18
−$155k
’19
$1.1M
’20
$56k
’21
$889k
’22
−$402k
’23
−$265k
’24
8.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Linda Lu

Exec Director

Board chair

Gretchen Sandler

Chairman

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

2018201920202021202220232024
Listed1213151515178
Joined·+3+2+0+4+2+1
No longer listed·2004010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $60k → $706k.

16 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 Alliance for Girls’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. 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

Alliance for Girls has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

47% 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 Alliance for Girls.

34%
largest funder
53%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 71% · 2019 41% · 2020 62% · 2021 27% · 2022 44% · 2023 31% — 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.

How long its funders stay

41% of Alliance for Girls's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

96% of Alliance for Girls's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
OH
CA
DE
NC
GA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Alliance for Girls holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−23% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve8.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like Alliance for Girls

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 15%Fundraising 6%

Governance

6
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

51%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Alliance for Girls?
Alliance for Girls (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,249,412 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE FDN DBA BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA FDN ($2,833,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Alliance for Girls have?
IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $8,249,412 in grants to Alliance for Girls, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Alliance for Girls?
CALIFORNIA PHYSICIANS' SERVICE FDN DBA BLUE SHIELD OF CALIFORNIA FDN is the largest funder on record, with $2,833,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Alliance for Girls find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 39 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing