New York · Nonprofit
THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC
THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,306,811 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,878,442). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.3M
- Funders on record
- 105
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $19M
What The Lower East Side Girls Club of New York Inc does
Mission
The lower eastside girls club provides a place where girls ages 8-23 can participate in arts, literacy, science, health and leadership programs which develop environmental, entrepreneurial and ethical leadership.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lower east side girls club provides creative and substantive youth development programs for girls ages 8 through 23
$3,751,647 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,751,647.
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 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $23M (+27%).
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 7% · 2018 21% · 2019 21% · 2020 20% · 2021 22% · 2022 11% · 2023 44% · 2024 30% · 2025 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 4 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.
Board chair
Gael Towey
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $171k → $1.6M.
18 of 105 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 69% 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 LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 105 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 LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 22% · 2019 25% · 2020 40% · 2021 47% · 2022 46% · 2023 37% — 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
35% of THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
69% of THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC'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 $4.1M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC's revenue fell 52% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,064 youth development nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11k on record.
- Department of Agriculture$11k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC
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 New York
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
99%
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 THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC: 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 THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC?
- THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC (New York) receives grants from 105 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,306,811 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,878,442). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 69% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 105 organizations giving $13,306,811 in grants to THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,878,442 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 105 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