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Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo

Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $972,290 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($738,130). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$366k
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$972k
Net assets
$194k
11/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo does

Mission

Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo is dedicated to creating a world where every girl knows and activates her limitless potential and is free to boldly pursue her dreams

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo serves the community by delivering youth development programs for girls in 3rd through 5th grade across Kalamazoo, Allegan, and Van Buren Counties. Girls in 3rd5th grade develop essential skills to help them navigate their worlds and establish a lifetime appreciation for health and fitness. In the Spring of 2025, GOTR of Greater Kalamazoo conducted its 10-week program with over 1,057 girls participating, supported by 252 trained volunteers across 56 program sites. The season concluded with a community-wide celebratory 5K event that engaged approximately 500 volunteers and welcomed 1,330 girls, family members, and community runners.

    $293,993 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $293,993.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($405k) Expenses 100 ($442k) Net assets 100 ($101k)2020 Revenue 91 ($367k) Expenses 85 ($377k) Net assets 90 ($92k)2021 Revenue 95 ($385k) Expenses 63 ($279k) Net assets 195 ($198k)2022 Revenue 116 ($472k) Expenses 79 ($350k) Net assets 314 ($319k)2023 Revenue 91 ($367k) Expenses 91 ($403k) Net assets 280 ($284k)2024 Revenue 73 ($295k) Expenses 87 ($384k) Net assets 192 ($195k)2025 Revenue 90 ($366k) Expenses 83 ($365k) Net assets 191 ($194k)
2019202020212022202320242025
Revenue (90)Expenses (83)Net assets (191)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 2020 to 2021, from $149k to $257k (+73%).

$123k
$149k
$257k
$335k
$300k
$210k
$213k
2019202020212022202320242025
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

59% of Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (83% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 6,418 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

−$36k
’19
−$10k
’20
$106k
’21
$121k
’22
−$35k
’23
−$89k
’24
$660
’25
6.5
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.

Board chair

Stacy Jackson

Chairman

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

2019202020212022202320242025
Listed16181917181511
Joined·+8+1+1+5+2+5
No longer listed·603459
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income fell $103k → $31k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 78% 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 of Greater Kalamazoo’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 Run of Greater Kalamazoo leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

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

81% 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 of Greater Kalamazoo.

76%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 84% · 2021 69% · 2022 60% · 2023 32% — 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

100% of Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

78% of Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $217k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Michigan funders.

MI
NY
CO
NC
GA

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

’20
’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $756k 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 on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo is better cushioned than half of the 3,734 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve6.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,734 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 10%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

84%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo?
Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo (Michigan) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $972,290 to it, the largest being KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($738,130). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 78% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $972,290 in grants to Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo?
KALAMAZOO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $738,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 13 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