New York · Nonprofit
GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE
GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,277,789 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($850,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $610k
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $4.3M
- Net assets
- $-178629
What Girl Be Heard Institute does
Mission
Girl be heard builds leaders, changemakers, and activists. We do this by developing, amplifying, and celebrating the voices of girls, young women, and gender non-conforming youth through socially conscious theatre-making, storytelling, and performance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Leveraging our leadership as ensemble curriculum which focuses on young women growing and learning as a collective, girl be heard's year-round programming serves 400 annually through the following programs: girl superempowerment workshops, mainstage theatre and community performances, arts immersion camps, girl be! Workshops, and girls make media.
$938,460 spentof which $41,100 as grants$2,250 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $938,460.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $347k (−72%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 22% · 2019 35% · 2020 24% · 2021 35% · 2022 39% · 2023 39% · 2024 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
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
Cynthia Renta
Executive director
Board chair
Jessica Pfeiffenberger Bohn
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $235k → $716k.
10 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 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
GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 65% · 2019 43% · 2020 41% · 2021 37% · 2022 14% · 2023 28% — 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
30% of GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.
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 GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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.
Against its field
GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE's funding base is broadening — from 12 funders to 17 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,953 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $168k on record.
- Department of State$93k
- National Endowment for the Arts$75k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: 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 GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE?
- GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE (New York) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,277,789 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($850,000). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,277,789 in grants to GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $850,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 50 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