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GIRL VOW INC

GIRL VOW INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,159,389 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($885,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$787k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$2.2M
Net assets
$1.3M
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 79%
01What it does

What Girl Vow Inc does

Mission

Girl vow is a gender focused mentoring program for girls/lgbtq youth impacted by foster care, poverty, and the juvenile justice system.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Girl vow is focused on minimizing the risks of girls/lgbtq youth impacted by juvenile justice, poverty, and foster care by providing direct services and collaboration with private and public enterprises in order to help transition disadvantaged youth into services that will lead to career sustainability, training, or post-secondary education.girl vow works to address the needs of girls/lgbtq youth who are forgotten, high risk and for whom it is difficult to obtain a foster home placement, and are impacted by poverty, and/or have experienced incarceration. Our youth are defined as hard to place by most systems and have experienced multiple out-of-home placements.

    $474,981 spentof which $36,122 as grants$51,250 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $474,981.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($337k) Expenses 100 ($202k) Net assets 100 ($206k)2020 Revenue 125 ($423k) Expenses 134 ($270k) Net assets 170 ($351k)2021 Revenue 140 ($472k) Expenses 161 ($326k) Net assets 241 ($498k)2022 Revenue 195 ($658k) Expenses 223 ($451k) Net assets 342 ($705k)2023 Revenue 206 ($696k) Expenses 272 ($550k) Net assets 413 ($851k)2024 Revenue 257 ($865k) Expenses 262 ($528k) Net assets 576 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 233 ($787k) Expenses 340 ($686k) Net assets 625 ($1.3M)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (233)Expenses (340)Net assets (625)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 $885k to $1.3M (+50%).

$225k
$395k
$540k
$731k
$885k
$1.3M
$1.4M
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 2% · 2020 43% · 2021 10% · 2022 30% · 2023 6% · 2024 18% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

93% of GIRL VOW INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

$135k
’19
$153k
’20
$147k
’21
$207k
’22
$146k
’23
$337k
’24
$101k
’25
19
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

Dawn Rowe

Executive director

Board chair

Shantise Mathis-Britt

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed4444455
Joined·+0+0+1+0+2+0
No longer listed·001010
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $40k → $438k.

4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 VOW INC’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 VOW INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

51% 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 VOW INC.

41%
largest funder
85%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 96% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 33% · 2023 46% — 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 VOW INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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

99% of GIRL VOW INC's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
DE
DC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $220k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

GIRL VOW INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin13% · above the median
Months of reserve18.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 27%Fundraising 4%

Governance

5
board members
80%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

77%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NY

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Questions and answers

Who funds GIRL VOW INC?
GIRL VOW INC (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,159,389 to it, the largest being PINKERTON FOUNDATION ($885,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GIRL VOW INC have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $2,159,389 in grants to GIRL VOW INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GIRL VOW INC?
PINKERTON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $885,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIRL VOW INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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