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MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL
MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,789 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ($276,550). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $795k
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Manitou Council Inc D/B/A Girl Scouts of Manitou Council does
Mission
Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In a typical year, girl scouts of manitou council serves approximately 3,000 girls and 800 adult volunteers in seven counties in wisconsin. In girl scouts, girls discover the fun, friendship, and power of girls together. Girls are offered a myriad of enriching experiences, such as extraordinary field trips, skill-building clinics, community service projects, cultural exchanges, and environmental stewardships for which they may earn awards and insignia. The dedicated adult volunteers are screened, background checked, and formally trained to ensure the girl members are afforded the best possible role models and mentors for their girl scout experience.
$509,088 spent32% of program spendingThe girl scout cookie sale is a girl program event designed to help each girl achieve her full potential. Through the girl scout cookie sale, girl scouts develop a number of skills; goal setting, planning, marketing, budgeting, record-keeping, community relations and most of all, a sense of responsibility and achievement. The proceeds from the cookie sale provide for more than 85% of troop activities and financial assistance for girl scouts who need it. The proceeds also help subsidize summer camp fees and council initiated program events by more than 50%. Girl scouts of all age levels are encouraged to participate and the vast majority of them do participate in this very popular event steeped in tradition.
$340,958 spent$1,119,230 earned by the program21% of program spendingGirl scout camping is a great way to build new skills, get a sense of community, and develop a deep appreciation for nature and the environment. Under the guidance of caring, trained adults, girl scouts have the opportunity to grow, explore, and most of all have fun. Each year vitually 100% of manitou girl scouts camp at camp evelyn or camp manitou at some point during the year.
$743,749 spent$207,491 earned by the program47% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,593,795.
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 2020 to 2021, from $5.5M to $6.2M (+12%).
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% · 2018 0% · 2019 0% · 2020 9% · 2021 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
13% of MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Denise Schemenauer
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Anna Doll
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $64k → $93k.
3 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL’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
MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
60% 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 MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 49% · 2019 51% · 2020 44% · 2021 28% · 2022 37% · 2023 23% — 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 MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
85% of MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL's grant income comes from Wisconsin funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $88k 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
MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL
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 Wisconsin
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
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL?
- MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL (Wisconsin) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $794,789 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC ($276,550). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $794,789 in grants to MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL?
- UNITED WAY OF SHEBOYGAN COUNTY INC is the largest funder on record, with $276,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MANITOU COUNCIL INC D/B/A GIRL SCOUTS OF MANITOU COUNCIL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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