California · Nonprofit
GIRLVENTURES
GIRLVENTURES (California) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,732,298 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($295,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $524k
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $2.7M
- Net assets
- $204k
What Girlventures does
Mission
GirlVentures provides outdoor programs during the summer and afterschool year round for Bay Area girls age 11-17. Our mission is to inspire girls to lead through outdoor adventure, inner discovery and collective action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Redwood AdventureThis program happens in June and this year we were able to take participants to the Harold Richardson Reserve on the Sonoma Coast. Our participants for this course are entering 6th-7th grade and for many this is their first experience camping, and for others the first time without their families. We were welcomed to this space via Save the Redwoods League who were incredible hosts.
$576,849 spent$31,516 earned by the program100% of program spendingProject CourageThis ten day course is for participants who are entering the 7th and 8th grade. It is a course centering around kayaking in the Tomales Bay and the participants carry everything they will need for the expedition. This course builds upon the experiences of Redwood Adventure and allows for a longer experience to build outdoor skills.
TransitionsThis course returned to the Courtright Reservoir in August in the Sierra National Forest and John Muir Wilderness for 14 days of backpacking through the area. Participants were able to experience climbing with rappelling and abseiling with our instructors.
On The RiseThis is another 14 day course for students entering 10-12th grade. This is a leadership course where students backpack and climb in the Sierra National Forest and John Muir Wilderness. Throughout the course students focus on building community via exploring social justice, identity and leadership building. Students from this course are encouraged to become assistant instructors or join the Youth Advisory Board.
Fierce and FabulousThis course is open to all students that identify as LBGBT+ and are in 9th-12th grade. This is one of the newest courses offered that grows every year, unfortunately we were not able to run this course due to Covid. We were able to offer spots in other courses for the students that they happily joined.
Rising togetherrising together is an affinity course centered in the empowerment of bipocyouth in 9th-12th grade. This weeklong backpacking course is led by instructors that reflect the identities of the students. Students explored the high sierras and reflected on being in the outdoors as a young person and how to feel confident and strong in that space
Explore outsideour school year program provides one and two day hiking, camping and kayaking excursions for cohorts of community and school partner participants, focused on the point reyes wilderness and tomales bay.
Girls climb onour popular climbing program for 6th-10th graders took place over 9 weeks in the fall at pacific pipe gym in oakland. Students are paired with adult mentors once weekly after school.
Assistant InstructorsThe AI program is one that GV is very excited to build upon every year. The pipeline of participants moving to being an instructor is fundamental to our programs and equity and inclusion in the outdoor industry. The AIs embody our Leadership Progression model and this year we were happy to have them join us on two courses as well as fulfilling roles in Logistics and planning the courses.
The 9 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $576,849.
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 2021 to 2022, from $320k to $733k (+129%).
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: 2017 1% · 2019 12% · 2020 14% · 2021 16% · 2022 12% · 2023 46% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of GIRLVENTURES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $254k → $385k.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 GIRLVENTURES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
GIRLVENTURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 GIRLVENTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 23% · 2019 41% · 2020 24% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2023 19% — growing more concentrated.
“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
23% of GIRLVENTURES's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
65% of GIRLVENTURES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $852k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
GIRLVENTURES's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like GIRLVENTURES
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
65%
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 GIRLVENTURES: 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 GIRLVENTURES?
- GIRLVENTURES (California) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,732,298 to it, the largest being THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ($295,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GIRLVENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $2,732,298 in grants to GIRLVENTURES, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GIRLVENTURES?
- THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $295,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GIRLVENTURES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 62 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