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CAREER GIRLS

CAREER GIRLS (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,518,215 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($640,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$245k
Funders on record
11
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$139k
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 99%
01What it does

What Career Girls does

Mission

Career Girls is a free video-based career exploration & skills development platform helping girls prepare for their future, with educator resources, in-school Career Girls clubs, & thousands of role model videos.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Career exploration and skills development platform: careergirls.org is a comprehensive video-based career exploration and skills development platform for girls. We offer free access to 16,000 video clips of interviews with over 800 accomplished women role models, an online career quiz, college major quiz, detailed information on hundreds of careers and college majors, and video-based empowerment lessons and related curriculum to develop the skills necessary for success in the workplace. 7,000,000 people benefited in 2025.

    $91,590 spent
    52% of program spending
  2. Direct student engagement programs: Career Girls offers free in-person and virtual programming to girls. We create programming alongside industry- leading role models to provide unparalleled content that reflects what students need to know. Direct student engagement includes webinar series, Career Girls clubs and Career Girls day events. 500 people benefited in 2025.

    $83,095 spent
    48% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $174,685.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($395k) Expenses 100 ($413k) Net assets 100 ($70k)2020 Revenue 116 ($460k) Expenses 112 ($463k) Net assets 95 ($66k)2021 Revenue 100 ($396k) Expenses 94 ($389k) Net assets 104 ($73k)2022 Revenue 120 ($475k) Expenses 110 ($454k) Net assets 135 ($94k)2023 Revenue 134 ($530k) Expenses 116 ($481k) Net assets 206 ($143k)2024 Revenue 81 ($322k) Expenses 73 ($302k) Net assets 234 ($163k)2025 Revenue 62 ($245k) Expenses 65 ($268k) Net assets 200 ($139k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (62)Expenses (65)Net assets (200)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 2022 to 2023, from $110k to $152k (+39%).

$81k
$106k
$81k
$110k
$152k
$167k
$150k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 19% · 2025 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of CAREER GIRLS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 25,057 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.

−$18k
’19
−$4k
’20
$7k
’21
$21k
’22
$49k
’23
$19k
’24
−$23k
’25
3.8
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.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed67910121211
Joined·+2+2+1+3+0+2
No longer listed·100103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $121k → $473k.

4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 79% 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 CAREER GIRLS’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

CAREER GIRLS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

95% 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 CAREER GIRLS.

42%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 82% · 2022 39% · 2023 74% — 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

50% of CAREER GIRLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

79% of CAREER GIRLS'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 $320k that is directly attributable, 67% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.

NY
CA
DC

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

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

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

CAREER GIRLS's revenue fell 38% between 2019 and 2025.

Operating margin−10% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,450 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like CAREER GIRLS

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

65% of spending goes to programs.

Program 65%Management 17%Fundraising 18%

Governance

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

Public support

82%

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

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • El Films LLC · corp_trust

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Questions and answers

Who funds CAREER GIRLS?
CAREER GIRLS (California) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,518,215 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($640,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 79% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does CAREER GIRLS have?
IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $1,518,215 in grants to CAREER GIRLS, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CAREER GIRLS?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $640,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CAREER 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 11 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