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BIO Girls Inc

BIO Girls Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,890 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($175,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
64
Grants received
$1.4M
Net assets
$755k
31/64 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 24%
01What it does

What BIO Girls Inc does

Mission

Bio Girls is on a mission to improve the mental health of adolescent girls through empowerment of self and connection with others.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. BIO Girls Inc. was organized to increase the self-esteem of adolescent girls through empowerment of self and service to others. The organization utilizes a curriculum revolving around 4 identified pillars: mental wellness, healthy relationships, leadership, and kindness. As part of the curriculum, participants receive mentoring and participate in physical activity to increase their self-esteem. The Organization has 118 program locations as of December 31, 2025 across North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, and is headquartered in Fargo, North Dakota.During the fiscal year ending December 31, 2025, BIO Girls, Inc. conducted a 12-week youth training course to build confidence and learn life skills. 2,924 youth benefited from this program during the fiscal year.

    $1,701,157 spentof which $284,175 as grants$801,910 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,701,157.

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 ($154k) Expenses 100 ($124k) Net assets 100 ($40k)2019 Revenue 201 ($309k) Expenses 271 ($337k) Net assets 29 ($12k)2020 Revenue 399 ($613k) Expenses 341 ($423k) Net assets 500 ($201k)2021 Revenue 584 ($898k) Expenses 597 ($742k) Net assets 898 ($361k)2022 Revenue 933 ($1.4M) Expenses 1118 ($1.4M) Net assets 1662 ($668k)2023 Revenue 1077 ($1.7M) Expenses 1428 ($1.8M) Net assets 1095 ($440k)2024 Revenue 1272 ($2.0M) Expenses 1420 ($1.8M) Net assets 1122 ($451k)2025 Revenue 1602 ($2.5M) Expenses 1725 ($2.1M) Net assets 1877 ($755k)
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Revenue (1602)Expenses (1725)Net assets (1877)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 2024 to 2025, from $549k to $1.6M (+184%).

$48k
$69k
$228k
$395k
$733k
$557k
$549k
$1.6M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 4% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of BIO Girls Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$29k
’18
−$28k
’19
$189k
’20
$156k
’21
$46k
’22
−$119k
’23
$191k
’24
$319k
’25
2.4
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

Missy Heilman

CEO

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed991111101412
Joined·+1+3+2+1+5+1
No longer listed·112213
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $40k → $228k.

20 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 BIO Girls Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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

BIO Girls Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left

60% 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 BIO Girls Inc.

13%
largest funder
28%
top three
~20
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 28% · 2020 34% · 2021 21% · 2022 19% · 2023 28% — broadly stable.

“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

69% of BIO Girls Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

BIO Girls Inc draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside North Dakota, across 13 states in all.

ID
ND
MN
WI
NY
SD
IA
IN
OH
RI
MO
AZ
NC

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
North Dakota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $549k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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

BIO Girls Inc has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve2.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)49% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like BIO Girls Inc

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 North Dakota

Nationally

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 8%Fundraising 13%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 2 states

MN
WI

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BIO Girls Inc: 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 BIO Girls Inc?
BIO Girls Inc (North Dakota) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,357,890 to it, the largest being OTTO BREMER TRUST ($175,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BIO Girls Inc have?
IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $1,357,890 in grants to BIO Girls Inc, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BIO Girls Inc?
OTTO BREMER TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $175,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BIO Girls Inc find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 64 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