Minnesota · Nonprofit
GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC
GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,973,586 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,379,376). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 77
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $48M
What Girl Scouts of Mn and Wi River Valleys Inc does
Mission
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Girl scouts river valleys' purpose is to boldly lead as an antiracist organization that uplifts and empowers every girl to know their worth and lead in their world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Girl scouts is the best girl leadership program in the world. Our program centers on the girl scout leadership experience, or gsle, where girls gain important skills in four areas that form the foundation: science, technology, engineering and math (stem), outdoors, life skills, and entrepreneurship. In 2025, girls earned over 55,000 badges in the following areas: stem (robotics, coding, engineering, trades, space science, citizen science); outdoors (rock climbing, animal habitats, trailblazing, snowshoeing, trees, archery); entrepreneurship (financial literacy, cookie entrepreneurship, product designing, business start up); and life skills (public speaking, democracy, first aid, photography, woodworking, music). Over 9,800 girl scouts engaged in council-led programs. During fiscal year 2025, river valleys provided $3,473 in financial assistance for program events. This amount has been recorded as a reduction from event program fees reported on form 990, part viii, line 2b.2,151 girl scout campers chose to take the path of courage and find adventure in the outdoors. In 2025, council-led day camp options were expanded to help make our program more approachable for all especially…
$8,574,800 spentof which $97,497 as grants$12,130,159 earned by the program56% of program spendingGirl scouts of minnesota and wisconsin river valleys' work is supported by over 5,800 volunteers who deliver the girl scout leadership experience to almost 15,400 girls in southern minnesota, western wisconsin, and one county in iowa. At the heart of every girl scout experience are volunteers, our girls' role models and teachers. River valleys continues to rely on the passion and dedication of adult volunteers to serve as troop leaders, troop cookie managers, trainers, episodic volunteers and committee members. Volunteers also serve in a range of administrative and supportive roles throughout the community and area levels. Annual membership dues are remitted to girl scouts of the usa and river valleys does not retain any portion of the membership dues.
$2,777,771 spentof which $221,179 as grants18% of program spendingCamp facilities:river valleys owns and operates five camp facilities: elk river, lakamaga, northwoods, singing hills, and edith mayo. River valleys' four resident camps (elk river, lakamaga, northwoods, and singing hills) are currently accredited by the american camp association. Aca accreditation ensures that individuals have a physically, mentally, and emotionally safe camp experience. Activities at the camps include, but are not limited to, day camps, resident camps, program events, and community encampments. Camp edith mayo, located on the outskirts of rochester, mn, is perfect for day camps, training, and programming with an outdoor focus. River valleys continues to make improvements at all camp facilities.
$3,410,998 spent22% of program spendingRetail services: river valleys operates retail shops at their two service centers, camp edith mayo, and one satellite location. During the summer, river valleys offers retail camp stores at our camps. Retail services provide program related materials to members participating in river valleys' programming and promote the girl scout brand and mission through a variety of merchandise offerings. Financial assistance provided to girl scouts for uniforms and program material totaled $31,124. This amount is recorded as a reduction from gross sales of inventory reported on form 990, part viii line 10a.
$628,817 spent$266,781 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,392,386.
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 2024 to 2025, from $58M to $50M (−14%).
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% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 0% · 2021 23% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).
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
Marisa Williams
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Marnie Overman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $731k → $878k.
16 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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 MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% 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
68% 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 MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 55% · 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 18% · 2022 81% · 2023 22% — 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
56% of GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
54% of GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS 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 $5.5M that is directly attributable, 95% of it comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC is better cushioned than half of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS 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 Minnesota
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
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- St Croix Valley Girl Scout Camps Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,973,586 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($4,379,376). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC have?
- IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $11,973,586 in grants to GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $4,379,376 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC 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.
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 77 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