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Girl Scouts of Western Ohio

Girl Scouts of Western Ohio (Ohio) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,084,849 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($1,715,959). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$15M
Funders on record
105
Grants received
$7.1M
Net assets
$36M
63/105 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 9%
01What it does

What Girl Scouts of Western Ohio does

Mission

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, in an inclusive, girl-driven environment, helps prepare approximately 25,000 girl members for living today, as well as for living responsible adult lives through the girl scout program, which includes troop activities, program opportunities, summer camp, and girl scouts in the school day. The girl scout cookie program is much more than selling cookies. Girls learn five valuable skills: 1) goal setting, 2) decision making, 3) money management, 4) people skills, and 5) business ethics-aspects essential to leadership, success, and life. When a girl scout sells cookies, she's building a lifetime of skills and confidence. Eighty percent of all female business owners participated in the girl scout cookie program. Girl scouts selling girl scout cookies set their own money-earning goals for the season, whether it's going on a destination, giving back to the community, or participating in another exciting adventure. The girl scout cookie program is a girl-led activity, with parental supervision and volunteer support. Girl Scouts of Western Ohio will help prepare one out of six girls in the ohio region for living in today's world through recruitment, screening,…

    $12,328,544 spentof which $446,318 as grants$9,837,055 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $12,328,544.

02The 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 100 ($37M)2018 Revenue 108 ($14M) Expenses 104 ($14M) Net assets 99 ($36M)2019 Revenue 110 ($14M) Expenses 108 ($15M) Net assets 97 ($36M)2020 Revenue 103 ($13M) Expenses 102 ($14M) Net assets 99 ($36M)2021 Revenue 111 ($14M) Expenses 100 ($14M) Net assets 106 ($39M)2022 Revenue 102 ($13M) Expenses 107 ($15M) Net assets 90 ($33M)2023 Revenue 124 ($16M) Expenses 112 ($16M) Net assets 95 ($35M)2024 Revenue 115 ($15M) Expenses 114 ($16M) Net assets 99 ($36M)
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Revenue (115)Expenses (114)Net assets (99)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $41M to $36M (−13%).

$38M
$37M
$37M
$38M
$41M
$36M
$38M
$38M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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: 2021 9% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

9% of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (78% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 207 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$774k
’17
−$330k
’18
−$483k
’19
−$730k
’20
$673k
’21
−$1.5M
’22
$694k
’23
−$852k
’24
1.4
months of
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

Aimee Sproles

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2222272527283128
Joined·+6+7+8+5+8+7+2
No longer listed·62103745
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 42 funders, grant income rose $665k → $750k.

17 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Western Ohio’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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 Western Ohio has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

66% 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 Western Ohio.

24%
largest funder
42%
top three
~11
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 24% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 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

42% of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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

75% of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
KY
VA
DE
NC
DC
FL

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

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Girl Scouts of Western Ohio's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 42 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−6% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.4mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 203 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

83% of spending goes to programs.

Program 83%Management 12%Fundraising 5%

Governance

21
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds Girl Scouts of Western Ohio?
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio (Ohio) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,084,849 to it, the largest being United Way of Greater Cincinnati ($1,715,959). 63 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Girl Scouts of Western Ohio have?
IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $7,084,849 in grants to Girl Scouts of Western Ohio, 63 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Girl Scouts of Western Ohio?
United Way of Greater Cincinnati is the largest funder on record, with $1,715,959 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Girl Scouts of Western Ohio find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 105 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