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VOW FOR GIRLS INC

EIN 83-1964328 NEW YORK, NY

Revenue 2025
$5,100,926
Expenses 2025
$3,504,871

Program services were 58.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P62
Classification
1000
Street
1350 AVE OF THE AMERICAS FL 2-1109

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

TO END CHILD MARRIAGE BY CREATING A NEW STREAM OF FUNDING THAT CAN BUILDING A CONNECTED GROUNDSWELL OF LOVE AND SUPPORT FOR EVERY GIRL WHOSE RIGHT TO OWN HER FUTURE IS AT RISK.

Activities or mission (Part I)

VOW FOR GIRLS CHAMPIONS THE GIRLS AROUND THE WORLD WITHOUT THE RIGHTS, RESOURCES, AND CHOICES TO DECIDE THEIR OWN FUTURES. WE CHANNEL THE POSITIVE POWER OF CELEBRATIONS TO RAISE FUNDS, DRIVE AWARENESS, AND CHANGE THE FUTURES OF GIRLS EVERYWHERE. VOW PARTNERS WITH LOCAL LEADERS WORLDWIDE TO ERADICATE THE CAUSES OF CHILD MARRIAGE AND CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR EVERY GIRL TO BE UNSTOPPABLE. WE'RE CHANGING HOW THE WORLD SEES GIRLSSO THAT EVERY GIRL HAS THE CHANCE TO CHANGE HER WORLD.

  • SEE SCHEDULE O ALL DONATIONS MADE BY COMPANIES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ARE RAISED SPECIFICALLY FOR PROGRAM EXPENSES, AND 100% OF THESE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE USED TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS THROUGH VOW'S GRANTING PARTNER, THE GIRLS FIRST FUND.VOW KEEPS THIS 100% PROMISE BY FUNDRAISING SEPARATELY FOR ITS OPERATIONAL BUDGET FROM PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS AND GENEROUS INDIVIDUALS.THE GIRLS FIRST FUND, A PROGRAM OF CAPITAL FOR GOOD, IS CURRENTLY THE SOLE PROGRAM BENEFICIARY OF VOW FOR GIRLS INC. THE GIRLS FIRST FUND IMAGINES A WORLD WHERE GIRLS AND WOMEN CAN LIVE IN SAFETY, DIGNITY, AND FREEDOM, WITH MEANINGFUL CHOICES ABOUT THEIR LIVES, INCLUDING IF, WHEN, AND WHOM THEY MARRY.IN 2025, THE GIRLS FIRST FUND DISTRIBUTED GRANTS IN TWENTY-TWO COUNTRIES, SUPPORTING A BREADTH OF ORGANIZATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS TO STRENGTHEN A THRIVING COMMUNITY-LEVEL ECOSYSTEM OF COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS WORKING TO END CHILD MARRIAGE. THE GIRLS FIRST FUND EXISTS TO FUND THESE STRATEGIES AT SCALE WHILE ACCOMPANYING GROUPS ON THEIR JOURNEY.IN ADDITION TO DIRECT GRANTMAKING TO GRASSROOTS ORGANIZATIONS, THE GIRLS FIRST FUND PROVIDES MENTORING AND NETWORKING SUPPORT. THEY CONNECT THEIR GRANTEES TO ONE ANOTHER AND OTHER INFLUENTIAL ACTORS AND SEEK TO INCREASE GRANTEES' INFLUENCE AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL, ENSURING LOCAL AND NATIONAL MOVEMENTS ARE BOLSTERED BY THE PERSPECTIVES OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES.BEYOND THEIR DIRECT GRANTEE RELATIONSHIPS, THEY ADVOCATE FOR BETTER RESOURCES FOR COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS AMONGST PEER DONORS BY AMPLIFYING GRASSROOTS INSIGHTS, STRATEGIES, AND IMPACTS GATHERED THROUGH THEIR FUND LEARNING INITIATIVES.

    Expenses $2,064,671 · Grants $663,470

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • MABEL VAN ORANJE

    CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    12

  • CHIDEGAR LIBERTY

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • MARGARET HEMPEL

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • MINJAE ORMES

    BOARD MEMBER THRU 12/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1.5

  • VERSHA SHARMA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DARREN WALKER

    BOARD MEMBER THRU 06/2025

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • CLAY DUNN

    CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER THRU 07/2025

    Total calculated
    $173,428
    From this org
    $147,522
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $25,906
    Hours/week
    45

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $147,522
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $989
    Nontaxable benefits
    $24,917
    Filer's total
    $173,428

  • MEGHAN SHARER

    VP OF OPERATIONS

    Total calculated
    $191,279
    From this org
    $168,350
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $22,929
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $168,350
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,712
    Nontaxable benefits
    $21,217
    Filer's total
    $191,279

  • ANDIE BOBB

    SVP, PHIL. & PARTNERS. THRU 07/2025

    Total calculated
    $166,402
    From this org
    $165,918
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $484
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $127,255
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $38,663
    Deferred
    $333
    Nontaxable benefits
    $151
    Filer's total
    $166,402

  • LINDSEY MILLER-VOSS

    VP, MARKETING & COMM THRU 07/2025

    Total calculated
    $134,270
    From this org
    $118,404
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $15,866
    Hours/week
    40

  • ELIZA MUNSON

    VP, PHILANTHROPY & PARTNERSHIPS

    Total calculated
    $171,966
    From this org
    $134,586
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $37,380
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $134,586
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $1,439
    Nontaxable benefits
    $35,941
    Filer's total
    $171,966

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. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $5,100,926
    Expenses
    $3,504,871
    Contributions
    $5,074,041
    Grants paid
    $663,470
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,483,333
    Expenses
    $3,524,621
    Contributions
    $3,464,315
    Grants paid
    $436,450
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,323,916
    Expenses
    $3,623,036
    Contributions
    $3,323,916
    Grants paid
    $550,000
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,222,007
    Expenses
    $3,013,410
    Contributions
    $2,221,670
    Grants paid
    $350,000

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $5,174,220
    Expenses
    $3,113,553
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,515,666

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,690,263
    Expenses
    $1,483,810
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,401,327

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $400,923
    Expenses
    $210,842
    Assets (EOY)
    $220,442

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2018

Tax period
1 January 2018 to 31 December 2018
Principal officer
Margaret Hempel
Mailing address
Patterson Belknap- 1133 6th AveNew York NY 10036

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 26 October 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

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Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.