Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital
Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,442,930 to it, the largest being Girl Scouts of the United States of America ($1,213,337). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 116 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 116 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared funders
- Boy Scouts of Americaportfolio match
- National Boy Scouts of America Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 9% · 2022 7% · 2023 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $254k → $493k.
14 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $4.3M from 3 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Chicago Community Trust). These are real filings, and they are not money Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital raised.
From the IRS filings of Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 Council of the Nation's Capital has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
69% 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 Council of the Nation's Capital.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 67% · 2019 33% · 2020 24% · 2021 27% · 2022 30% · 2023 14% — 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
43% of Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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 Council of the Nation's Capital draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 58 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- World Bank Community Connections Fundshared fundersDC · backs 88 organizations that share your funders
- Boy Scouts of Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Boy Scouts of America Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA Northeast Region Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Girls Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Johnson County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Funding Allianceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Remmer Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jcpenney Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Camping Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charitable Foundation of the Rotary Club of Atlanta Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- DPR Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital?
- Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,442,930 to it, the largest being Girl Scouts of the United States of America ($1,213,337). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $4,442,930 in grants to Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital?
- Girl Scouts of the United States of America is the largest funder on record, with $1,213,337 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Girl Scout Council of the Nation's Capital find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 58funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing