Colorado · Nonprofit
The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver
The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,551,722 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($466,105). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $440k
What The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver does
Mission
The Girls Athletic Leadership School, Denver (GALS) is the only public, all-girls charter school in the State of Colorado. GALS' mission is to empower young women to succeed academically, lead confidently, live boldly, and thrive physically. Founded in 2010, the school provides a comprehensive educational program serving students in grades 6-12 during the 2024-2025 school year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
GALS delivers core academic instruction aligned to national and state standards, complemented by a dedicated Social Emotional Learning (SEL) course at each grade level. The school implements a holistic, movement-based instructional model that integrates physical activity into daily classroom learning to promote student engagement, physical wellness, and academic achievement. The curriculum emphasizes leadership development, character growth, and health and wellness as foundational components of student success. Enrollment as of June 30, 2025 totaled 282 students, including 223 middle school students and 59 high school students. The year ended June 30, 2025 marked the final year of high school operations. The decision to discontinue the high school program followed a comprehensive review of enrollment trends, academic performance data, and long-term financial projections. Based on this analysis, the Board determined that continuing the high school program would not allow the organization to sustain programmatic quality aligned with the GALS mission. The school worked closely with students and families to support a successful transition to other educational opportunities within the…
$4,937,552 spent$4,721,609 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,937,552.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $3.3M to $2.7M (−20%).
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: 2020 9% · 2021 31% · 2022 20% · 2023 25% · 2024 12% · 2025 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Timeri Tolnay
Executive Director
Board chair
Margaret-Ann Burness
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $36k → $478k.
9 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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
The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
68% 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 The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 58% · 2019 45% · 2020 34% · 2021 44% · 2022 36% · 2023 66% — 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
39% of The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
79% of The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver's grant income comes from Colorado funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $460k 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.
Against its field
The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver's funding base is broadening — from 4 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver?
- The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver (Colorado) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,551,722 to it, the largest being CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION ($466,105). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,551,722 in grants to The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver?
- CARING FOR DENVER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $466,105 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Girls Athletic Leadership School of Denver 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 27 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