Georgia · Nonprofit
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc
Girls on the Run Georgia Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,961,203 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($358,700). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.0M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $471k
What Girls on the Run Georgia Inc does
Mission
Girls on the Run Georgia empowers girls with vital social-emotional skills to help them succeed in school, at home, and within friendships. Our programs, Girls on the Run (3rd-5th grade) and Heart & Sole (6th-8th grade) are taught by trained coaches and are intentionally designed for the critical adolescent years when girls experience decreases in confidence and challenges with their mental, social and emotional health. Every girl can participate, no matter her physical ability or her family's financial means. Since 2000, we've helped more than 45,000 girls learn to "let her star shine." Our research-based, positive youth development program utilizes proven curriculum based in social-emotional learning (SEL) to deliver skills in building self-confidence, positive self-talk, managing emotions, navigating difficult conversations, standing up to bullying, and more.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
As an independent council of Girls on the Run International, Girls on the Run Georgia is proud to be part of the only national, physical activity-based positive youth development program with an evidence-based curriculum, trained coaches, and a commitment to serving girls. Since 2000, Girls on the Run Georgia has served more than 45,000 girls and expanded to more than 150 schools and community sites across Greater Atlanta, North Georgia, Athens and Golden Isles. It has been our long-standing priority to mirror our participants with the demographics of the communities we serve and we are proud that we are succeeding. This year, 2,132 participants participated in our life-changing programs. 73% of our participants were BIPOC, 60% reside in low-income, under resourced communities with limited access to youth development programs. 98% of girls reported they were more confident due to their participation in our programs.Service to our amazing girls is enabled by a dedicated team of eight staff members, with the generous support of more than 1,000 volunteers serving as coaches and event volunteers, as well as those in leadership positions on our Governing Board and Young Professionals…
$783,968 spent$241,727 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $783,968.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $465k to $572k (+23%).
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: 2021 11% · 2022 8% · 2023 14% · 2024 2% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
75% of Girls on the Run Georgia Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Lea Rolfes
Executive Director
Board chair
Julie Anne Kohse
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $75k → $274k.
7 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 on the Run Georgia Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 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 on the Run Georgia Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
68% 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 on the Run Georgia Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 51% · 2019 41% · 2020 35% · 2021 24% · 2022 21% · 2023 26% — 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
79% of Girls on the Run Georgia Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
55% of Girls on the Run Georgia Inc's grant income comes from Georgia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $635k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 on the Run Georgia Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,064 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Girls on the Run Georgia 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
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 on the Run Georgia 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 on the Run Georgia Inc?
- Girls on the Run Georgia Inc (Georgia) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,961,203 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC ($358,700). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Girls on the Run Georgia Inc have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,961,203 in grants to Girls on the Run Georgia Inc, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Girls on the Run Georgia Inc?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER ATLANTA INC is the largest funder on record, with $358,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Girls on the Run Georgia Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 31 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