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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA.

Totals

Total revenue
$612,582
Total expenses
$653,878
Contributions and grants received
$612,582
Grants paid
$586,150
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$347,008
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$347,008
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$588,459
Management and general expenses
$6,914
Fundraising expenses
$58,505
Program service expenses (Part III)
$588,459

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $612,582

  • 11d · All other revenue

    total $0 · related or exempt $0 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $0

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $586,150 · program services $586,150

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $7,242 · program services $1,448 · management and general $1,448 · fundraising $4,346

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $1,500 · program services $300 · management and general $300 · fundraising $900

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $873 · program services $175 · management and general $175 · fundraising $523

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $1,040 · program services $0 · management and general $1,040 · fundraising $0

  • 11e · Fees: professional fundraising services

    total $40,750 · fundraising $40,750

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $902 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $902

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $1,333 · program services $0 · management and general $1,333 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $7,550 · program services $0 · management and general $2,232 · fundraising $5,318

  • 17 · Travel

    total $4,607 · program services $0 · management and general $0 · fundraising $4,607

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $1,200 · program services $240 · management and general $240 · fundraising $720

  • 24a · Other expenses: Payroll Processing fee

    total $731 · program services $146 · management and general $146 · fundraising $439

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $388,304 · end of year $347,008

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $388,304 · end of year $347,008

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

Girl Up Initiative Uganda's mission is to build a vibrant movement of girls and young women through transformative leadership, sexual and reproductive health education, and skills development. The organization's vision is to creaate a gender equal world where girls thrive and lead. FUIU's approach also includes engaging with boys and men as a key strategy to bring about gender transformation. The US organization's primary purpose is to provide funding for the Ugandan organization.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Girl Up Initiative Uganda'S mission is to build a vibrant movement of girls and young women through transformative leadership, sexual and reproductive health education, and skills development. The US organization's primary purpose is to provide funding for the Ugandan organization.

  • The Adolescent Girls Program (AGP) is GUIU's flagship program which empowers in-school adolescent girls to be leaders; reach their full educational potentials and make healthy and informed choices. Program services include: year-long life skills, leadership and sexual health trainings; school scholarships; teachers' trainings' parents' meetings; advocacy events and counseling and emergency support. In 2023 the AGP was active in 25 schools in Kampala and Bukedea Districts with over 1,500 girls graduating from the program. The Big Sisters Network is a continuation of the AGP for graduating girls to ensure alumni stay involved and engaged as girl leaders and mentors. In 2023, GUIU held its Big Sisters Camp for 200 girls and Big Sisters from six schools designed and implemented climate-smart projects. ensures that AGP alumni continue to stay involved and engaged as girl leaders and mentors to build their self-confidence and positively transform their lives and communities. It consists of additional leadership training, skills building and knowledge acquisition through engagements throughout the year including raising the voices of girls on national television and radio.

    Expenses $267,763 · Grants $267,023

  • The Boy Champions Project (BCP) reaches in-school adolescent boys with critical knowledge and information to challenge deeply-held gender normative attitudes and beliefs and improve their knowledge around sexual and reproductive health and rights and gender-based violence. The project was designed based on evidence proving that in order to end violence against women and girls, adolescent boys must be meaningfully engaged from a young age to understand importance of making gender sensitive decisions, resisting the pressure of negative masculinities and supporting the girls and women in their lives. In 2023 the project reached a total of 996 adolescent boys from 15 primary schools in Kampala and. Bukedea Districts.

    Expenses $173,198 · Grants $172,414

  • Mazuri Designs Hub aims to enhance the economic empowerment of young women through a vocational training course in fashion design and tailoring that is combined with entrepreneurial and personal skills training for out-of-school vulnerable young women, ages 16-35 years. During the year long course, participants learn practical, personal and business skills to improve their confidence, overall wellbeing and economic self-reliance. In 2023, the largest cohort of 98 young women graduated from the Mazuri Designs Hub during a fashion show and celebration. 100% of the trainees passed the national certification exam of the Directorate of Industrial Training and are not certified seamstresses.

    Expenses $147,498 · Grants $146,714

As filed on the 2023 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Harvey Wolf

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Sofie Fredlund-Blomst

    VICE-PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    3
  • Kimberly Wolf

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Hilary Haber

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sasha Mostofi-Jorgensen

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
3 May 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.0
Source object
202431279349301428

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