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GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST
GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,477,657 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($450,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.0M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Girl Scouts of California's Central Coast does
Mission
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence & character, who make the world a better place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs: under the girl scout leadership experience, girl scouts discover, connect and take action through girl-led, cooperative, learn by doing experiences. Programs include arts and culture; business and financial literacy; environment and outdoor adventure; science, technology, engineering and mathematics (stem); and wellness and healthy living. Girls develop leadership skills as they discover themselves while exploring their interests, and connect with others to take positive action in their communities. Leadership excellence is reflected in the prestigious girl scout gold, silver and bronze awards achieved, as well as the significant way they give back to their community through service projects. Girls develop important business and financial literacy skills through the girls scout cookie and fall product sales, building self-confidence while learning business and marketing skills, goal-setting, decision-making, money management, customer service and business ethics. These, and other financial education programs, help girls gain the self-confidence to ultimately take control of their own financial future. Girl scouts develop skills in stem, through programs such as forever…
$5,748,103 spentof which $20,215 as grants$3,431,472 earned by the program100% of program spendingMembership: increasing girl and volunteer membership is a top priority of our organization. Gsccc currently serves over 4,800 girls and 2,900 adult members in six counties - ventura, santa barbara, san luis obispo, san benito, monterey, and santa cruz - girl membership is continuing to grow and recover from the pandemic. The council is focused on ensuring the membership we serve is reflective of the demographics in our council region. We provide financial assistance and are growing our support for underserved girls through strategic partnerships.
Volunteer development: with 2,954 adult volunteers to deliver girl scout programs to our girl membership, volunteer development is critical to our success in meeting our mission. Our volunteer group includes college students, retirees, professional men and women, parents, and girl scout alumnae. These volunteers go through training in order to coach and teach girls and other volunteers at the troop, service unit, or council level. Training is offered in person or via webinar, on topics including an introduction to girl scouting, troop leader instruction, outdoor troop camping, outdoor skills, and cookie program. Additionally, training is available for service unit managers, learning facilitators, and program aides. In addition to training, volunteer development includes recruiting, interviewing, and performing and monitoring background checks, and recognizing achievement of volunteers.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,748,103.
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 2019 to 2020, from $6.8M to $8.0M (+17%).
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: 2018 0% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 4% · 2024 19% · 2025 24%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
34% of GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST’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. 4 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
Tammie Helmuth
CEO
Board chair
Rainia Knapp
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $180k → $439k.
10 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST leans on a few funders — its largest provides 30% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 54% · 2019 73% · 2020 44% · 2021 65% · 2022 49% · 2023 34% — 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
44% of GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
58% of GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $279k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Girl Scouts of the USA · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST (California) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,477,657 to it, the largest being The David and Lucile Packard Foundation ($450,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,477,657 in grants to GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $450,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL SCOUTS OF CALIFORNIA'S CENTRAL COAST 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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