Wisconsin · Nonprofit
GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC
GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,129,720 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($4,926,033). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.3M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $32M
What Girl Scouts of Wisconsin Southeast Inc does
Mission
Girl scouts of wisconsin southeast, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, is the preeminent membership-based organization dedicated to helping all girls develop the confidence, determination, and skills needed to thrive in today's world. Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Girl scouts bring their dreams to life and work together to build a better world. Girl scouts of all backgrounds and abilities can be unapologetically themselves as they discover their strengths and rise to meet new challenges. Backed by trusted adult volunteers, mentors, and millions of alums, girl scouts lead the way as they find their voices and make changes that affect the issues most important to them. With programs in kenosha, milwaukee, ozaukee, racine, walworth, washington, and waukesha counties, girl scouts of wisconsin southeast gives every girl scout in our council the chance to reach their full leadership potential.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Membership involves the recruitment, training, support, and retention of girl members and adult members who deliver the girl scout leadership experience (gsle) to girls in grades k5-12. The gsle engages girl scouts in discovering self, connecting with others, and taking action to make the world a better place. Girl scouts helps members (1) develop their full individual potential; (2) relate to others with increasing understanding, skill, and respect; (3) develop values to guide their actions and provide the foundation for sound decision making; and (4) contribute to the improvement of society through their abilities, leadership skills, and cooperation with others. The long-term result, or the leadership destination, is a generation of girls who lead with courage, confidence, and character. Based on self-reporting of race and ethnicity, girls of color make up 13% of the council's girl membership with 23% who did not report race or chose not to share, and 8% identify as hispanic. Girls and adults participating in girl scouts are supported by council-provided financial assistance for membership dues, training fees, and materials. Membership totals for 2025 (october 1, 2024 september…
$1,811,348 spentof which $73,121 as grants$261,063 earned by the program24% of program spendingThe girl scout leadership experience (gsle) provides personal leadership development opportunities to girls in grades k5-12, with defined outcomes differentiated by grade level. The organization offers and promotes flexible opportunities for participation. Events and activities offered span a wide range of options and topics that support and enrich each girl scout's experience, e.g., stem (science, technology, engineering, math), outdoor camps, travel, environmental stewardship, global citizenship, arts and culture, healthy living, entrepreneurial skills, life skills, community service, and career exploration. These events, activities, and programs also provide opportunities for girl scouts from various communities to meet, connect, and work together. Staff, tools, resource materials, equipment, awards, and venues, including council-owned program properties, are available and included in the gsle program delivery. In 2025, 3,443 girls participated in immersive camp experiences and 7,511 girls attended council-led events. 324 girls earned girl scout gold, silver, and bronze awards, providing more than 9,690 hours of service to their local communities. Financial assistance is…
$5,081,201 spentof which $74,314 as grants$6,934,033 earned by the program68% of program spendingThe staff-led community outreach program is delivered to communities in limited-income and/or disproportionately affected areas in milwaukee, racine, and kenosha (using wisconsin department of public instruction data to determine schools with greatest need). These communities are underserved by resources and do not often have access to similar programs. The majority of these girls are girls of color, in grades k5-8.staff-led community outreach utilizes specially trained girl scout staff to guide and inspire girls to explore new things and gain practical skills. Our staff goes to local community centers, schools, and other community events, to provide specially curated and culturally competent programming to girls. Gswise's four pillars stem, life skills, outdoors, and entrepreneurship are the foundation of the programs and services provided.the program encompasses many different pathways of participation in the gsle curriculum that occurs year-round and provides financial assistance, bilingual materials, and customized curriculum. Girls can participate in out-of-school-time staff-led girl scout troops, series programs, summer workshops, and camp experiences. Bilingual staff…
$572,656 spentof which $47,720 as grants$1,887 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: $7,465,205.
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 2020 to 2021, from $26M to $31M (+20%).
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 12% · 2022 11% · 2023 0% · 2024 0% · 2025 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC’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. 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
Ana Simpson
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Nicole Best
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 27 funders, grant income fell $835k → $691k.
16 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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 WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 78% · 2019 81% · 2020 80% · 2021 59% · 2022 64% · 2023 70% — 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
49% of GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC'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
88% of GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $475k 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 WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC is better cushioned than half of the 1,152 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,152 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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In Wisconsin
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC?
- GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,129,720 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC ($4,926,033). 41 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $7,129,720 in grants to GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC, 41 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC?
- UNITED WAY OF GREATER MILWAUKEE & WAUKESHA COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,926,033 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL SCOUTS OF WISCONSIN SOUTHEAST INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 58 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