California · Nonprofit
GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA
GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,817,100 to it, the largest being WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL ($310,489). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $387k
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $341k
What Girl Up Initiative Uganda does
Mission
Girl Up Initiative UgandaS mission is to build a vibrant movement of girls and young women through transformative leadership, sexual and reproductive health education, and skills development. The US organizations primary purpose is to provide funding for the Ugandan organization.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Adolescent Girls Program (AGP) is GUIUs flagship program which empowers in-school adolescent girls to be leaders, reach their full educational potentials and make healthy and informed choices. Program services include: year-long life skills, leadership and sexual health trainings; school scholarships; teachers trainings; parents meetings; advocacy events and counseling and emergency support. In 2025 the AGP was active in Kampala and Bukedea Districts with 1,833 girls graduating from the program and 511 girls supported with scholarships to stay in school. The Big Sisters Network is a continuation of the AGP for graduating girls to ensure alumni stay involved and engaged as girl leaders and mentors. In 2025, GUIU held its Big Sisters Camp for 300 emerging girl leaders. Guided by the theme Unstoppable Me, the camp strengthened girls courage, voice and leadership identity.
$214,347 spentof which $213,654 as grants82% of program spendingThe Boy Champions Project (BCP) reaches in-school adolescent boys with critical knowledge and information to challenge deeply-held gender normative attitudes and beliefs and improve their knowledge around sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence. The project was designed based on evidence proving that in order to end violence against women and girls, adolescent boys must be meaningfully engaged from a young age to understand importance of making gender sensitive decisions, resisting the pressure of negative masculinities and supporting the girls and women in their lives. In 2025 the program reached 1,226 adolescent in Kampala and Bukedea Districts.
$12,547 spentof which $11,853 as grants5% of program spendingMazuri Designs Hub aims to enhance the economic empowerment of young women through a vocational training course in fashion design and tailoring that is combined with entrepreneurial and personal skills training for out-of-school vulnerable young women, ages 16-35 years. During the year long course, participants learn practical, personal and business skills to improve their confidence, overall wellbeing and economic self-reliance and are linked to employment opportunities. GUIU also facilitates automotive apprenticeships and skills training, proving that young women can prosper in male-dominated trades. In 2025, 86 young women gained employability skills in fashion design, tailoring and automotive mechanics.
$34,505 spentof which $33,811 as grants13% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $261,399.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $265k to $388k (+47%).
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.
99% of GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $34k → $212k.
3 of 18 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 UP INITIATIVE UGANDA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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 UP INITIATIVE UGANDA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
36% 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 UP INITIATIVE UGANDA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 74% · 2019 52% · 2020 27% · 2021 35% · 2022 28% · 2023 47% — 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
45% of GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $255k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 UP INITIATIVE UGANDA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA
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
96% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
37%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA?
- GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,817,100 to it, the largest being WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL ($310,489). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $1,817,100 in grants to GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA?
- WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL is the largest funder on record, with $310,489 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 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