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GIRL TALK INC

GIRL TALK INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,743,226 to it, the largest being THE BOYD FOUNDATION ($1,030,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.9M
Funders on record
27
Grants received
$2.7M
Net assets
$2.7M
16/27 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 73%
01What it does

What Girl Talk Inc does

Mission

Girk talk is a faith based non profit that empowers girls to become their best selves by reducing the likelihood of teen pregnancy and helping them to advance educationally

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Girl talk 1:1 mentoring girls in 6th-12th grade from all over the city of knoxville can apply to receive one on one mentoring. Each girl is matched with a caring adult woman who will give her the additional suport she needs to get through lifes challenges and transitions.

    $193,334 spent
    25% of program spending
  2. The girl talk life academy is an elite program of girl talk, inc. In which rising sophomores, juniors and seniors across knox co can apply to participate in a 10-month experience that is both transformational and preparatory for their future. The program provides participants with skills for college, career and life through consecutive monthly sessions, each semester.

    $185,431 spent
    24% of program spending
  3. Our school and site based program girl talk collaborates with the organizations to provide group mentoring services to 4th and 5th grade girls after school. Through curriculum base learning objectives and group mentoring, we assist in building girls confidence and self-esteem, preventing teen pregnancy, and increasing the likelihood of educational advancement.

    $21,553 spent
    3% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $366,770 spent
    48% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $767,088.

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 ($200k) Expenses 100 ($148k) Net assets 100 ($95k)2018 Revenue 116 ($233k) Expenses 129 ($192k) Net assets 144 ($136k)2019 Revenue 181 ($362k) Expenses 224 ($332k) Net assets 176 ($167k)2020 Revenue 218 ($437k) Expenses 255 ($378k) Net assets 238 ($226k)2021 Revenue 221 ($444k) Expenses 345 ($511k) Net assets 166 ($158k)2022 Revenue 419 ($839k) Expenses 406 ($601k) Net assets 417 ($396k)2023 Revenue 556 ($1.1M) Expenses 527 ($781k) Net assets 767 ($727k)2024 Revenue 1060 ($2.1M) Expenses 729 ($1.1M) Net assets 1864 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 937 ($1.9M) Expenses 664 ($983k) Net assets 2895 ($2.7M)
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Revenue (937)Expenses (664)Net assets (2895)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 2023 to 2024, from $739k to $1.8M (+146%).

$96k
$138k
$170k
$230k
$222k
$405k
$739k
$1.8M
$2.8M
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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
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 84%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of GIRL TALK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,035 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$52k
’17
$41k
’18
$31k
’19
$59k
’20
−$68k
’21
$238k
’22
$332k
’23
$1.0M
’24
$894k
’25
20
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

Denetria Moore

Executive director

Board chair

Robert Loggins

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed91010121212121413
Joined·+4+4+9+3+4+4+5+6
No longer listed·34734437
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 17 funders, grant income rose $55k → $814k.

7 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 TALK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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 TALK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

47% 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 TALK INC.

38%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 78% · 2021 35% · 2022 58% · 2023 26% — 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

50% of GIRL TALK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

90% of GIRL TALK INC's grant income comes from Tennessee funders.

MN
IL
NY
PA
TN
NC
AL
FL

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

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’20
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’22
’23
Tennessee out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $463k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 TALK INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin48% · top quartile
Months of reserve20.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)32% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like GIRL TALK INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

78% of spending goes to programs.

Program 78%Management 14%Fundraising 8%

Governance

12
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

91%

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 TALK INC?
GIRL TALK INC (Tennessee) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,743,226 to it, the largest being THE BOYD FOUNDATION ($1,030,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GIRL TALK INC have?
IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $2,743,226 in grants to GIRL TALK INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GIRL TALK INC?
THE BOYD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,030,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIRL TALK INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Tennessee. 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 27 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