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GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL
GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,740,753 to it, the largest being GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ($692,880). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.7M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $6.8M
What Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin Lakes and Pines Council does
Mission
To build girls of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Throughout the year, girl scouts lakes & pines provided in-person and virtual programming to meet the needs of our girls and their families through both summer camps and year-round opportunities. Partner programs and travel continue to provide opportunities for our members to explore the world around our council, across our country, and abroad. We were able to serve 522 youth and 246 adults through vendor programs, including ice climbing, women in law, zoo snooze, dog sledding, and outdoor experience with hunt hill audubon sanctuary. We provided travel opportunities to 37 youth and adults this year as we traveled to costa rica and took a road trip out to colorado and back. This summer, we hosted both troop and overnight summer camp programming to just over 1,300 participants. Additionally, we facilitated council events and programs on the go for 688 youth and 155 adults during our 2025 membership year. We continue to run our two largest events, kaleidoscope and hosted the 40th anniversary of our world our family, reaching a total of 163 and 552 youth and adult participants, respectively. Other highlights included mentoring girl scouts through our outreach program, girl scouts in…
$2,689,760 spentof which $90,438 as grants81% of program spendingCouncil sponsored camp and event programming focuses on the five outcomes of the girl scout leadership experience, including a sense of self, positive values, challenge seeking, community problem solving, and healthy relationships. In addition to these outcomes, girls in our programs connect with their peers, develop conflict-resolution skills, learn how to advocate for themselves, and feel empowered to make a difference in their communities.
$386,793 spentof which $29,380 as grants$578,394 earned by the program12% of program spendingThe girl scout cookie and fall product program is the largest girl-led business in the country and generates immeasurable benefits for girls, their communities, and their councils. Girls set goals to support their chosen activities for the year, to fund community service and leadership projects, to attend summer camp, to travel to destinations near and far, and to provide events for girls in their community. Participating in the girl scout product programs helps girls develop essential skills: goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business ethics. In addition to our regional cookie rally events, in preparation for the 2025 cookie season, we facilitated programming to 636 girls through earned service unit rallies. Girls, troops, and our council receive awesome benefits. The troop receives money for activities, and girls receive recognition prizes and vouchers to use at camp, for program attendance, or in the shop. The council proceeds help train volunteers, maintain camp properties, and keep program costs affordable.
$263,389 spent$2,717,400 earned by the program8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,339,942.
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 $7.3M to $8.4M (+15%).
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: 2017 0% · 2021 17% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL’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. 3 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
Leigh Ann Davis
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Cathy Town
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $116k → $188k.
5 of 13 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.
From the IRS filings of GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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 MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 58% · 2019 24% · 2020 24% · 2021 48% · 2022 60% · 2023 45% — 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
73% of GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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 SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $465k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL is better cushioned than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
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 SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL (Minnesota) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,740,753 to it, the largest being GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ($692,880). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,740,753 in grants to GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $692,880 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL SCOUTS OF MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN LAKES AND PINES COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 13 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