Michigan · Nonprofit
GIRLS GROUP
GIRLS GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,468,735 to it, the largest being PATHWAYS FOUNDATION ($875,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $5.5M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Girls Group does
Mission
Girls Group empowers middle and high school women to achieve emotional and economic security by graduating from high school and becoming first generation college graduates. Girls Group provides year round programming and mentoring to develop character, leadership, self confidence, and social consciousness, including the desire and ability to mentor others.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Mentoring young women from middle school through college graduation, and beyond. Over 815 youth participated in middle school and high school programs, and another 485 were served in college, career, and alumni programs. Over 113 young adults have completed college degrees and certifications.
$1,434,807 spentof which $39,537 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,434,807.
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 2021 to 2022, from $1.4M to $2.1M (+43%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 15% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GIRLS GROUP’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 1 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Finch Doug
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $243k → $1.0M.
14 of 65 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 GIRLS GROUP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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
GIRLS GROUP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
43% 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 GIRLS GROUP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 21% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 21% · 2021 15% · 2022 17% · 2023 24% — growing more concentrated.
“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
73% of GIRLS GROUP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
83% of GIRLS GROUP's grant income comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
GIRLS GROUP runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,928 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,928 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like GIRLS GROUP
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 Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
68% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 GIRLS GROUP: 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 GIRLS GROUP?
- GIRLS GROUP (Michigan) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,468,735 to it, the largest being PATHWAYS FOUNDATION ($875,000). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLS GROUP have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $5,468,735 in grants to GIRLS GROUP, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS GROUP?
- PATHWAYS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS GROUP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 65 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