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Little Indian Girl

Little Indian Girl (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$151k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$300k
Net assets
$38k
1/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Little Indian Girl does

Mission

Little Indian Girl is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. The organization's purpose is to educate and empower women and girls and to advance public understanding of the connection between environmental and social justice. The organization is guided by the belief that all women and girls have the right to safety, access to education, and the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Little Indian Girl supports the empowerment of young women and works to create lasting solutions that enable them to uplift their communities as future leaders and activists.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

Program

  1. Little Indian Girl is a nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. The organization's purpose is to educate and empower women and girls and to advance public understanding of the connection between environmental and social justice. The organization is guided by the belief that all women and girls have the right to safety, access to education, and the opportunity to achieve their full potential. Little Indian Girl supports the empowerment of young women and works to create lasting solutions that enable them to uplift their communities as future leaders and activists.

    $140,352 spentof which $150,700 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,352.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Gingger Shankar

CEO

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
1
1

From the IRS filings of Little Indian Girl’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.

Where its funders are

Little Indian Girl draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

NY

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Little Indian Girl runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 5,688 youth development nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,688 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

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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

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds Little Indian Girl?
Little Indian Girl (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $300,000 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($300,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Little Indian Girl have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $300,000 in grants to Little Indian Girl, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Little Indian Girl?
NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $300,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Little Indian Girl 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 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