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Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc
Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,886,752 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,438,174). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $8.9M
- Funders on record
- 93
- Grants received
- $4.9M
- Net assets
- $21M
What Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc does
Mission
Girls develop courage, confidence and character while building their self-esteem, leadership, and citizenship skills in a safe, nurturing environment. Our program is based on extensive research from our national organization and our program department. It is age-appropriate, girl-led, and girl-driven. Our programs reflect the interests and needs of today's girls. The Girl Scouts of Connecticut is the largest all-girl organization in the state working with girls of all racial, ethnic, religious, economic and social backgrounds.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership & Program Service: The Girl Scouts of Connecticut is dedicated to providing girls ages 5-17 years old with opportunities to build skills and to grow to become competent, confident and resourceful women. In partnership with an adult advisor, girls travel on their own journey to become leaders who make the world a better place. Girl Scouts are encouraged to plan projects that benefit their communities and are rewarded for their leadership efforts through our bronze, silver and gold awards, the highest achievements in Girl Scouting. STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Art and Mathematics), Healthy Living, Go Green and Diversity continues to be the focus of all Girl Scouts programs. It helps the girls develop values, open new horizons and empower them to make decisions about life.
$6,097,525 spentof which $264,862 as grants$7,009,424 earned by the program67% of program spendingOutdoor Program Service: Raising girls' awareness of their stewardship responsibilities toward the environment is a key goal in Girl Scouting. Girls are passionate about saving their environment and want opportunities to make meaningful contributions to their future. The Love Your Camp Days, Community Clean Up Days, Summer Camp, and Troop Camping allows girls to demonstrate their skills and appreciate the outdoors. There are many other unique patch programs focusing on wetlands, invasive species, pond life and watersheds, which immerse girls in learning while having fun. Girls discover, connect and take action to make the world a better place.
$2,936,464 spentof which $139,891 as grants$611,484 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,033,989.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $14M to $23M (+67%).
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 7% · 2022 14% · 2023 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Elicia Pegues Spearman
CEO
Board chair
Adrienne Parkmond
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 25 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $175k → $430k.
16 of 93 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 Connecticut Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 93 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 Connecticut Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
70% 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 Connecticut Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 31% · 2019 25% · 2020 32% · 2021 31% · 2022 87% · 2023 23% — broadly stable.
“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
45% of Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
68% of Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc'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 $1.6M that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 18 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.
Government funding Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $679k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$678k
- Client Services-General$2k
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 Scouts of Connecticut Inc
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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 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 Scouts of Connecticut Inc?
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc (Connecticut) receives grants from 93 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,886,752 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,438,174). 58 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc have?
- IRS filings report 93 organizations giving $4,886,752 in grants to Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc, 58 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,438,174 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 93 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