Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Wrestle Like a Girl Inc
Wrestle Like a Girl Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,390,505 to it, the largest being JAMES AND AMY BENNETT FOUNDATION ($548,750). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $538k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $1.4M
- Net assets
- $375k
What Wrestle Like a Girl Inc does
Mission
To empower girls and women using the sport of wrestling to become leaders in life.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
University Initiatives: Wrestle Like a Girl was successful in bringing women's wrestling under the NCAA umbrella as an Emerging Sport in 2020 and intends to use the same targeted approach to bring Women's Wrestling to Emerging Sport status in 2023, and NCAA Championship Status by 2025. Wrestle Like a Girl has also created a fund to drive awareness and support for women's collegiate wrestling programs.
$168,541 spent37% of program spendingWrestling Events: Empowerment camps, clinics, and Wrestle Like a Girl Tournaments that work to develop the total athlete and increase opportunities for girls and young women to wrestle other females.
$150,321 spent$195,743 earned by the program33% of program spendingStakeholder Education: Coaches Education: Female-specific coaching education is paramount as female wrestlers flock to the traditionally male-dominated "space." High school girls' wrestling has seen historic growth over the last five years. Additionally, higher education is left wanting for female wrestling coaches as the number of college wrestling programs has increased dramatically from ten to over 140 programs within a decade. Empowering women to take on coaching and other leadership roles is critical to the growth and efficacy of women's wrestling.Wrestle Like A Girl develops evidence-informed coaching material unique to female wrestlers through group think tanks made up of the country's most accomplished coaches of female wrestlers. We identify where coaching girls is similar to coaching boys AND the areas that additional training is necessary to support the female brain, body, and health. Through webinars, clinics, task forces, and our education resources, we have directly engaged thousands of coaches and wrestling leaders.
$118,434 spent26% of program spendingScholastic Youth Initiatives: Wrestle Like A Girl has a strong commitment to the growth and development of female wrestling by providing unique opportunities to wrestle at the high school level through determined advocacy to advance the official recognition of girls wrestling as an official sport at the high school level across all 50 states.
$18,221 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $455,517.
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 $193k to $614k (+218%).
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: 2018 1% · 2019 25% · 2020 28% · 2021 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of Wrestle Like a Girl Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (18% 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.
Chief executive
Sally Roberts
CEO
Board chair
Maryann Bruce
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $15k → $248k.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Wrestle Like a Girl Inc’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
Wrestle Like a Girl Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
38% 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 Wrestle Like a Girl Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 76% · 2019 58% · 2020 50% · 2021 56% · 2022 23% · 2023 32% — 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
33% of Wrestle Like a Girl Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% 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
Wrestle Like a Girl Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $387k 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
Wrestle Like a Girl Inc has grown faster than half of the 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15,520 recreation & sports nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Wrestle Like a Girl 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
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 Wrestle Like a Girl 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 Wrestle Like a Girl Inc?
- Wrestle Like a Girl Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,390,505 to it, the largest being JAMES AND AMY BENNETT FOUNDATION ($548,750). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Wrestle Like a Girl Inc have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $1,390,505 in grants to Wrestle Like a Girl Inc, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wrestle Like a Girl Inc?
- JAMES AND AMY BENNETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $548,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wrestle Like a Girl Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 30 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