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GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC

GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,360,916 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,400,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$5.9M
Revenue FY2024
49
Funders on record
$4.4M
Grants received
$17M
Net assets
37/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.7M) Expenses 100 ($5.4M) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 85 ($4.8M) Expenses 101 ($5.4M) Net assets 93 ($10M)2019 Revenue 81 ($4.6M) Expenses 98 ($5.3M) Net assets 87 ($9.8M)2020 Revenue 143 ($8.1M) Expenses 83 ($4.5M) Net assets 118 ($13M)2021 Revenue 101 ($5.7M) Expenses 87 ($4.6M) Net assets 130 ($15M)2022 Revenue 150 ($8.5M) Expenses 100 ($5.3M) Net assets 142 ($16M)2023 Revenue 96 ($5.4M) Expenses 106 ($5.7M) Net assets 146 ($16M)2024 Revenue 104 ($5.9M) Expenses 118 ($6.3M) Net assets 154 ($17M)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (118)Net assets (154)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 8% · 2021 12% · 2022 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$308k
17
$554k
18
$698k
19
$3.7M
20
$1.1M
21
$3.2M
22
$245k
23
$425k
24
4.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $292k → $401k.

9 of 49 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)45% 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 EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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 EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

82% 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 EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC.

32%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 36% · 2019 32% · 2020 12% · 2021 22% · 2022 77% · 2023 27%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

58% of GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

53% of GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

MN
IL
WI
NY
NV
IA
IN
PA
MO
NM
KS

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 49 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC

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 Iowa

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 9%Fundraising 6%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

60%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS 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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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 SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC?
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC (Iowa) receives grants from 49 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,360,916 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($1,400,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC have?
IRS filings report 49 organizations giving $4,360,916 in grants to GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC?
The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $1,400,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN IOWA AND WESTERN ILLINOIS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49funders 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