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Form 990 for tax year 2025

Filed by GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA.

Totals

Total revenue
$386,520
Total expenses
$272,561
Contributions and grants received
$383,870
Grants paid
$259,318
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$2,650
Other revenue
$0
Total assets, end of year
$340,544
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$340,544
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$261,399
Management and general expenses
$4,920
Fundraising expenses
$6,242
Program service expenses (Part III)
$261,399

Program services were 95.9% 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.

  • 1c · Fundraising events

    $3,380

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $380,490

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $2,650 · unrelated business $0 · excluded $0

  • 8a · Fundraising events: contributions included on line 1c

    $3,380

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 3 · Grants to foreign organizations and individuals

    total $259,318 · program services $259,318

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $2,194 · program services $0 · management and general $2,194 · fundraising $0

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $2,739 · program services $548 · management and general $548 · fundraising $1,643

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $645 · program services $0 · management and general $645 · fundraising $0

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $7,665 · program services $1,533 · management and general $1,533 · fundraising $4,599

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $226,585 · end of year $237,946

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $102,598

  • 31 · Retained earnings, endowment or other funds

    beginning of year $226,585 · end of year $340,544

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

Girl Up Initiative UgandaS 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 organizations primary purpose is to provide funding for the Ugandan organization.

  • The Adolescent Girls Program (AGP) is GUIUs 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 2025 the AGP was active in Kampala and Bukedea Districts with 1,833 girls graduating from the program and 511 girls supported with scholarships to stay in school. 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 2025, GUIU held its Big Sisters Camp for 300 emerging girl leaders. Guided by the theme Unstoppable Me, the camp strengthened girls courage, voice and leadership identity.

    Expenses $214,347 · Grants $213,654

  • 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 2025 the program reached 1,226 adolescent in Kampala and Bukedea Districts.

    Expenses $12,547 · Grants $11,853

  • 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 and are linked to employment opportunities. GUIU also facilitates automotive apprenticeships and skills training, proving that young women can prosper in male-dominated trades. In 2025, 86 young women gained employability skills in fashion design, tailoring and automotive mechanics.

    Expenses $34,505 · Grants $33,811

As filed on the 2025 return.

Listed in Part VII

  • Kimberly Wolf

    PRESIDENT & TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Harvey Wolf

    VICE-PRESIDENT & SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chisina Kapungu

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Priti Bhattarai

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Susan Rothstein

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Glenn Woroch

    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
2025
Filed
25 March 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.0
Source object
202610849349300046

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