Illinois · Nonprofit
GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP
GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,243,511 to it, the largest being LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ($516,665). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $3.2M
- Net assets
- $414k
What Girls in the Game Nfp does
Mission
At Girls in the Game Nfp, every girl finds her voice, discovers her strength and leads with confidence through fun and active sports, health and leadership programs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
At Girls in the Game every girl finds her voice, discovers her strength and leads with confidence through fun and active sports, health, and leadership programs. Our programs serve over 3,600 girls, ages 7-18, each year, reaching over 15 Chicago neighborhoods. We prioritize girls of color from low-income backgrounds who live in under-resourced neighborhoods. At our largest program, After School, participants play sports, learn about healthy lifestyle choices, and improve their leadership skills in an all-girl setting. Ninety-minute sessions take place weekly for three 10-week seasons over the course of the school year. During the program year, participants are engaged in a variety of fitness, health and leadership activities. The curriculum also addresses topics related to bullying, healthy relationships and personal safety. After School provides a safe, non-competitive environment for girls to learn and be physically active. Through Family Nights and field trip opportunities for the whole family, Girls in the Game strives to involve parents and caregivers in our healthy lifestyle curriculum, helping to increase the likelihood that the lessons learned during programming will…
$557,828 spent$383,929 earned by the program52% of program spendingGirls in the Games teen programs are designed to offer teen girls further opportunities for leadership development.Teen Squad: Teen Squad provides up to 40 teen leaders the opportunity to earn scholarships for college while improving their self-esteem and leadership skills. Members of Teen Squad lead health and leadership workshops for younger girls in the community and participate in fitness activities along with younger participants to set a positive example of healthy living. In exchange, members earn scholarships for higher education and other incentives through a tiered rewards system. In addition to leading workshops for younger girls, Teen Squad members participate in Leader to Leader Interviews where they meet with panels of professionals in a variety of different roles and industries and interview them about their backgrounds and careers. Teens prepare and lead the interview and use the opportunity to educate the panelists about the needs and issues facing teen girls today.Summer Squad: Summer Squad provides leadership training for girls ages 14 to 18. Participants learn coaching skills, while increasing their leadership ability, personal responsibility, time management,…
$200,607 spent$122,541 earned by the program19% of program spendingGirls in the Game offers one-time and school-break programs to engage more girls and offer fun, active and healthy opportunities for girls when they are out of school.Days of Play: Days of Play are healthy-lifestyle workshops open to all girls who participate in Girls in the Game programs. Coaches (including teen coaches) lead girls through rotations of our sports, health, and leadership lessons for a fun day where girls from all over Chicago come together to play and learn. We hold Days of Play in the winter and spring on non-school attendance days. Game Days: Game Days are one-day events held in a variety of Chicago neighborhoods. Over the course of the year, up to 1,500 girls at 40 different Chicago sites will participate in three hours of traditional and nontraditional sports as well as workshops on health and leadership. Game Days are often hosted at potential After School sites and serve as the first impression of our programs for many participants and their families. We also hold Game Days at sites where we run elementary and middle school programming in order to recruit new girls. Sports and Leadership Summer Camp: Summer Camp brings up to 130 girls from across Chicago…
$195,979 spent$82,373 earned by the program18% of program spendingAll other program activities
$112,429 spent11% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,066,843.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.2M to $787k (−33%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2020 4% · 2021 16% · 2022 15% · 2023 10% · 2024 22% · 2025 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (71% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $137k → $391k.
14 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 IN THE GAME NFP’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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 IN THE GAME NFP has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
55% 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 IN THE GAME NFP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 14% · 2019 13% · 2020 12% · 2021 17% · 2022 31% · 2023 13% — 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
46% of GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
63% of GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $647k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 IN THE GAME NFP's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 32 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 390 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP
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In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 IN THE GAME NFP: 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 IN THE GAME NFP?
- GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,243,511 to it, the largest being LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA ($516,665). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $3,243,511 in grants to GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP?
- LAUREUS SPORT FOR GOOD FOUNDATION USA is the largest funder on record, with $516,665 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS IN THE GAME NFP find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 90 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