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GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY
GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,621,688 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,954,675). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10M
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $4.6M
- Net assets
- $34M
What Girl Scouts of Orange County does
Mission
Girl scouts builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Girl scouts is the nation's premiere leadership development program for girls from all cultures, zip codes and walks of life. The challenges girls face today are greater than ever and they affect all girls. There is evidence that girls are backing down and opting out of leadership positions. A recent report from the girl scout research institute showed that a girl's desire to lead is strongest when she is eight years old, yet declines dramatically when she is 16. With school funding continuing to decline, girl scouting provides expanded leadership and learning opportunities for girls in areas that fill critical talent gaps like finance, science, technology, and the environment. Additionally the girl scout cookie sale program is the nation's largest business and financial skills development program for girls.
$4,214,883 spent$7,786,557 earned by the program34% of program spendingThe Girl Scouts of Orange County provides comprehensive membership services for nearly 25,000 girls, volunteers and adult members, including registration, finance, recognitions, staffing support, resources and supplies, advertising, promotional and marketing materials.
$3,415,910 spentof which $115,242 as grants$202,537 earned by the program28% of program spendingThrough a comprehensive volunteer management system, Girl Scouts of Orange County provides a systematic approach to volunteer engagement, beginning with recruitment and background screening.the system includes preparatory and ongoing training, as well as resources,including but not limited to, trained staff, program materials, financial resources, and safe program facilities for girl program delivery. This system also includes coaching, evaluating and recognizing active adult volunteers who work in partnership with orange county's girls to help them develop leadership values, skills, and abilities.
$3,270,370 spent$18,048 earned by the program27% of program spendingThe Girl Scouts of Orange County operates a 700 acre year-round residential camp and 5 program centers, including irvine staff and retail shop,through which nearly 15,000 girls and 10,000 volunteers and adult members can benefit from girl leadership development and skills-building activities through events,series, travel, camp and troop experiences and adult volunteer development opportunities.
$1,348,087 spent$783,260 earned by the program11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,249,250.
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 $18M to $37M (+102%).
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 14% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
11% of GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY’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. 6 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
Victoria Shepp
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $99k → $224k.
11 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 82% 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 ORANGE COUNTY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 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 ORANGE COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 ORANGE COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 25% · 2019 19% · 2020 22% · 2021 33% · 2022 92% · 2023 17% — 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
57% of GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
82% of GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY'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 $846k that is directly attributable, 69% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 ORANGE COUNTY's revenue fell 43% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY
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 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
- Friends of the Girl Scouts' Trust · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY (California) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,621,688 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,954,675). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 82% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $4,621,688 in grants to GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,954,675 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL SCOUTS OF ORANGE COUNTY 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 41 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