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GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC
GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,055 to it, the largest being GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ($253,601). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.5M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $310k
- Net assets
- $7.5M
What Girl Scout Commonwealth Council of Virginia Inc does
Mission
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place. The girl scout leadership expereience is a one-of-a-kind leadership development program for girls with proven results. It is based on time-tested methods and researched backed programming that helps girls take the lead in their own lives and in the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Girl scout program activities - the girl scout leadership experience is research based, evidence based and encourages girls to thrive and grow through hands-on, experiential and cooperative learning. Activities are centered around the four program pillars of stem (science, technology, engineering and math) the outdoors, life skills, and entrepreneurialism. Activities are designed to build teamwork, self-confidence, and creative problem solving and decision-making, real-world leadership skills that are in demand by today's leading industries. The majority of gscv girl members participate through a troop experience where trained adult volunteers deliver the girl scout leadership program. Volunteers are supported through their volunteer experience with onboard training, program training, cpr/fa certification and outdoor education. The organization offers and promotes flexible pathways for participation. Events and activities offered span a wide range of options and topics that support and enrich each girl's experience, I.e., stem (continued on schedule o)
$2,960,012 spentof which $55,741 as grants$3,396,059 earned by the program95% of program spendingMembership is directed to the recruitment, training, support, and retention of girl members and adult volunteers who deliver the girl scout leadership program to girls in grades k-12. The girl scout leadership experience engages girls in discovering self, connecting with others, and taking action to make the world a better place. Girl scouts helps girls develop their full individual potential, relate to others with increasing understanding, skill, and respect, develop values to guide their actions and provide the foundation for sound decision making, and contribute to the improvement of society through their abilities, leadership skills, and cooperation with others. The long-term outcome is a generation of girls who lead with courage, confidence and character. Program service accomplishments: efforts to recruit girls from underserved or under-resourced communities are primarily staff-led until community volunteers can be recruited and trained. In fiscal year 2025, girl scouts of the commonwealth of virginia (continued on schedule o)
$170,240 spentof which $64,986 as grants$62,885 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,130,252.
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 $8.0M to $11M (+43%).
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: 2021 15% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
10% of GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 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
Ellen Marie Hess
CEO (interim) / board member
Board chair
Paula Young
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $14k → $41k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 10 of 11 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 SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 97% · 2019 54% · 2020 52% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 97% — growing more concentrated.
“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
38% of GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Virginia
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
76%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC?
- GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $310,055 to it, the largest being GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ($253,601). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $310,055 in grants to GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $253,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL SCOUT COMMONWEALTH COUNCIL OF VIRGINIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 2017–2025), 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing