California · Nonprofit
Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership
Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,761,589 to it, the largest being NEW PROFIT INC ($1,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership does
Mission
Girls Leadership Institute, Inc. (Girls Leadership) is a national, educational non-profit with a mission to teach girls to exercise the power of their voice. {continued on Schedule O).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To deepen our impact and expand access, Girls Leadership builds the capacity of adultseducators, caregivers such as parents, and youth workers, including sports coaches, social workers, mentors, and otherswho are already embedded in girls lives. We do this by providing in-depth training and vetted resources. This professional development programming includes up to 36 hours of total training for adults in girls lives using a youth-informed curriculum. This curriculum is organized across five core SEL domainsMindfulness and Self-Compassion, Identity and Self-Awareness, Social Awareness and Diversity, Relationship Skills and Community, and Justice and Actionand is sequenced from kindergarten through 12th grade to ensure developmentally aligned impact and lasting change across learning environments.
$2,165,170 spent$86,555 earned by the program100% of program spendingThe vetted resources shared in our trainings come from listening and co-designing with girls. We partner with girls to co-create educational resources and environments through youth leadership structures such as youth leadership clubs, research councils, and advisory boards. The learnings from this co-design process become curriculum and training that is tested and vetted with students impacted by systemic inequities and their youth-serving adults, and then scaled through professional development training and resource sharing to impact all youth.
In 2025 girls leadership amplified their two research studies, why we lead, the first national study of asian american, native hawaiian and pacific islander girls, and ready to lead, leadership supports and barriers for black and latinx girls. These studies uncovered how culture influences the definition of leadership, and how community and systems support girls leadership, and what biases undermine leadership development opportunities.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,165,170.
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 $1.0M to $4.1M (+295%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 19% · 2022 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $138k → $1.2M.
19 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
67% 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 Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 48% · 2019 39% · 2020 45% · 2021 21% · 2022 21% · 2023 21% — 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
37% of Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,732 recreation & sports nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: 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 Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership?
- Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership (California) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,761,589 to it, the largest being NEW PROFIT INC ($1,000,000). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $6,761,589 in grants to Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership?
- NEW PROFIT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 66 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