Colorado · Nonprofit
GIRLS ON THE FLY
GIRLS ON THE FLY (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND CATHERINE JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
GIRLS ON THE FLY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,005 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared funders
- The Denver Children's Foundationshared funderslocal
- Arvada Economic Development Associationlocal
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.
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.
68% of GIRLS ON THE FLY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of GIRLS ON THE FLY’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 ON THE FLY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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.
Where its funders are
GIRLS ON THE FLY draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Colorado, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Denver Post Community Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- The Denver Children's Foundationshared funderslocalCO · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you
- Arvada Economic Development AssociationlocalCO · funds 62 organizations near you
- Caring for Denver Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 13 organizations that share your funders
- Golden Civic Foundation InclocalCO · funds 21 organizations near you
- Caring for Colorado Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Denver Broncos Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 14 organizations that share your funders
- Rose Community Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Anschutz Family Foundationshared fundersCO · backs 17 organizations that share your funders
- The Foundation at Rolling HillslocalCO · funds 10 organizations near you
- Trailhead Instituteshared fundersCO · backs 11 organizations that share your funders
- Give Lively Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 29 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GIRLS ON THE FLY: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE FLY?
- GIRLS ON THE FLY (Colorado) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,500 to it, the largest being THE JOSEPH AND CATHERINE JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION ($4,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLS ON THE FLY have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $7,500 in grants to GIRLS ON THE FLY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLS ON THE FLY?
- THE JOSEPH AND CATHERINE JOHNSON FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLS ON THE FLY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Colorado. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 2funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing