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GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,525,749 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($981,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$639k
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$2.1M
9/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 44%
01What it does

What Girls Incorporated of Fort Smith does

Mission

Girls inc. Of fort smith is committed to providing a safe environment with educational and recreational programs that encourage girls to take risks and master physical, intellectual, and emotional challenges.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. To provide, on a non-discriminatory basis, athletic educational and other related activities for girls in and around the greater fort smith, arkansas area.

    $439,741 spentof which $35,814 as grants$137,959 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $439,741.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($558k) Expenses 100 ($460k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 92 ($511k) Expenses 107 ($491k) Net assets 98 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 87 ($485k) Expenses 108 ($498k) Net assets 105 ($1.7M)2020 Revenue 104 ($579k) Expenses 84 ($388k) Net assets 121 ($2.0M)2021 Revenue 79 ($442k) Expenses 93 ($430k) Net assets 130 ($2.1M)2022 Revenue 86 ($481k) Expenses 104 ($477k) Net assets 119 ($2.0M)2023 Revenue 80 ($445k) Expenses 114 ($526k) Net assets 124 ($2.0M)2024 Revenue 114 ($639k) Expenses 139 ($640k) Net assets 127 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (114)Expenses (139)Net assets (127)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 2019 to 2020, from $1.7M to $2.0M (+14%).

$1.7M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.0M
$2.1M
$2.1M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

58% of GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,387 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$97k
’17
$20k
’18
−$13k
’19
$190k
’20
$12k
’21
$4k
’22
−$82k
’23
−$2k
’24
7.1
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

Amanda Daniels

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2413151513151617
Joined·+0+7+1+1+3+4+8
No longer listed·11513137
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $214k → $156k.

3 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH’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

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

92% 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 INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH.

64%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 74% · 2019 53% · 2020 69% · 2021 68% · 2022 67% · 2023 67% — 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

67% of GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

93% of GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH's grant income comes from Arkansas funders.

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

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Arkansas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k 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

GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH is better cushioned than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve7.1mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH

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 Arkansas

Nationally

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 23%Fundraising 8%

Governance

16
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

81%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

AR

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Fort Smith Girls Club Endowment · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH?
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH (Arkansas) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,525,749 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC ($981,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $1,525,749 in grants to GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH?
UNITED WAY OF FORT SMITH AREA INC is the largest funder on record, with $981,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIRLS INCORPORATED OF FORT SMITH find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. 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 15 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing