Colorado · Nonprofit
Girls With Books
Girls With Books (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,794 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($193,501). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $271k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $420k
- Net assets
- $297k
What Girls With Books does
Mission
Our mission is to provide an education through the completion of high school for girls of South Sudan. This includes girls that reside in South Sudan and refugee girls who fled with their families from the ongoing civil war in and now live in Ugandan refugee camps. Girls With Books! sends these girls to established boarding schools in Uganda. GWB provides for all in both countries; the girls tuition, room & board, school supplies, bedding & clothing, including school uniforms, and transportation costs.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
We currently support the education of 116 girls, ages 12 to 20. At present, we support 66 students in South Sudan; 20 in primary school and 46 in secondary school. In Uganda, we support 50 students from 6 different refugee camps and send them to well established boarding schools that also have Ugandan students. Of the 50 Students, 16 are in primary school and 34 are in secondary school. Since our merger in October 2022, 112 girls have graduated from secondary school. To provide these girls with a post graduate education, we created a basic computer skills course in Juba, South Sudan. 46 girls came to the class in 2024-2025. We continue to stay in touch with our graduates and provide opportunities for the girls to meet periodically.
$216,379 spent$319,848 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $216,379.
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 2023 to 2024, from $242k to $303k (+25%).
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.
100% of Girls With Books’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 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
Micklina Peter Kenyi
Executive Director
Board chair
Ray Stranske
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income rose $11k → $73k.
6 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 64% 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 With Books’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 With Books leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
64% 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 With Books.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% · 2023 42% — 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.
Where its funders are
64% of Girls With Books'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 $151k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $269k 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.
Against its field
Girls With Books has grown faster than three-quarters of the 22,838 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,838 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Girls With Books
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 Colorado
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
66% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
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 With Books: 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 With Books?
- Girls With Books (Colorado) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $419,794 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($193,501). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 64% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Girls With Books have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $419,794 in grants to Girls With Books, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Girls With Books?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $193,501 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Girls With Books 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.
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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 10 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