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GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP

GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,857 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($141,425). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$69k
Funders on record
16
Grants received
$415k
Net assets
$114k
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 72%
01What it does

What Girls Play Sports Inc Nfp does

Mission

Foster leadership skills & confidence through sports

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Girls Play Sports is dedicated to fostering leadership skills and confidence in girls through sports participation. These programs benefitted more than 2,000 girls this past fiscal year.

    $0 spent

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($110k) Expenses 100 ($88k) Net assets 100 ($46k)2024 Revenue 146 ($161k) Expenses 116 ($103k) Net assets 226 ($105k)2025 Revenue 63 ($69k) Expenses 98 ($87k) Net assets 246 ($114k)
202320242025
Revenue (63)Expenses (98)Net assets (246)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 2023 to 2024, from $67k to $126k (+88%).

$67k
$126k
$114k
202320242025
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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (39% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 15,075 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$22k
’23
$58k
’24
−$18k
’25

Leadership and staff

Board chair

Kathy Tisdale

Board President

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $38k → $79k.

6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 PLAY SPORTS INC NFP’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 PLAY SPORTS INC NFP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

54% 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 PLAY SPORTS INC NFP.

34%
largest funder
65%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 50% · 2019 40% · 2020 59% · 2021 50% · 2022 43% · 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

70% of GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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

54% of GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP'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 $193k that is directly attributable, 84% of it comes from Illinois funders.

IL
KY
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GA

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

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Illinois out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $222k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 PLAY SPORTS INC NFP's revenue fell 37% between 2023 and 2025.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−21% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,557 recreation & sports nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

IL

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Questions and answers

Who funds GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP?
GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP (Illinois) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $414,857 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($141,425). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP have?
IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $414,857 in grants to GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP?
NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $141,425 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GIRLS PLAY SPORTS INC NFP find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 16 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