New York · Nonprofit
GIRLS INC
GIRLS INC (New York) receives grants from 267 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,821,150 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($21,167,222). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $36M
- Funders on record
- 267
- Grants received
- $71M
- Net assets
- $83M
What Girls Inc does
Mission
Girls Inc. Inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold through direct service and advocacy. Our programming is delivered to girls in partnership with schools and at our centers across 75 affiliates.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Affiliate services and growth: girls, inc. Inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Our comprehensive approach to whole girl development equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers. Girls, inc. Is a national organization with a network of 75 affiliates serving girls ages six through eighteen.
$8,259,319 spentof which $4,865,372 as grants$744,817 earned by the program56% of program spendingProgram, research and training: through programming, research, and training, Girls Inc. Ensures that affiliates across the nation can deliver the Girls Inc. Experience, which consists of people, an environment, and programming that, together, empower girls to succeed. Trained staff and volunteers build lasting, mentoring relationships in girls only in spaces that are physically and emotionally safe and where girls find a sisterhood of support with shared drive, mutual respect, and high expectations. Hands-on, research-based programs provide girls with the skills and knowledge to set goals, overcome obstacles, and improve academic performance. Girls Inc. Teaches healthy living so girls are able to make informed decisions, resist peer pressure, avoid risky behaviors, and take charge of their health; provides academic enrichment so Girls Increase their love of learning, improve performance in school, aspire to and plan for education beyond high school, and explore non-traditional careers; and helps girls build life skills to set and achieve goals and increase resilience in the face of obstacles to live productive and fulfilling lives.
$4,765,927 spentof which $680,000 as grants32% of program spendingPublic education and advocacy: informed by girls and their families, Girls Inc. Also advocates for legislation and policies that increase opportunities for all girls and tackles the systematic barriers that affect the conditions in which they are growing up.
$1,649,577 spentof which $140,020 as grants11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,674,823.
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 2024 to 2025, from $69M to $88M (+27%).
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 2% · 2018 8% · 2019 7% · 2020 5% · 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of GIRLS INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (78% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Stephanie Hull
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 65 funders to 81 funders, grant income rose $5.2M → $5.8M.
35 of 267 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% 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 INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 267 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 INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 82% · 2019 32% · 2020 36% · 2021 28% · 2022 40% · 2023 34% — 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
36% of GIRLS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
GIRLS INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 34 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 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 INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 144 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 144 youth development nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding GIRLS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GIRLS INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 39 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRLS INC: 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 INC?
- GIRLS INC (New York) receives grants from 267 organizations whose IRS filings report $70,821,150 to it, the largest being LILLY ENDOWMENT INC ($21,167,222). 127 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLS INC have?
- IRS filings report 267 organizations giving $70,821,150 in grants to GIRLS INC, 127 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS INC?
- LILLY ENDOWMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $21,167,222 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS 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.
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 267 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