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GIRLSTART

EIN 31-1595414 AUSTIN, TX

Revenue 2025
$2,500,517
Expenses 2025
$2,374,122

Program services were 74.2% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
N50
Classification
1000
Street
1400 W ANDERSON LN

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

Girlstarts mission is to empower girls through STEM. We envision a future where all who identify as girls believe they can change their world through STEM. We are a national women-led organization, offering year-round out-of-school STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) programming for girls in grades 4-8 in Texas, California, Massachusetts, and other locations across the country.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO INCREASE GIRLS' INTEREST AND ENGAGEMENT IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND MATH (STEM) THROUGH INNOVATIVE, NATIONALLY-RECOGNIZED INFORMAL STEM EDUCATION PROGRAMS.

  • GIRLSTART SUMMER CAMP: THROUGH THE SUMMER MONTHS, GIRLSTART PROVIDES WEEK-LONG STEM CAMPS FOR GIRLS ENTERING THE 4TH-8TH GRADES. AT OUR AUSIN HEADQUARTERS, WE PROVIDE 23 FEE-BASED SUMMER CAMPS AND 18 FREE SUMMER CAMPS FOR GIRLS IN HIGH-NEED COMMUNITIES OUTSIDE OF AUSTIN. IN 2024, GIRLSTART REACHED 759 GIRLS AT 41 CAMPS ACROSS 22 LOCATIONS IN 4 STATES, INCLUDING TEXAS, CALIFORNIA, MASSACHUSETTS, AND WISCONSIN.

    Expenses $924,362 · Revenue $163,088

  • GIRLSTART AFTER SCHOOL: GIRLSTART AFTER SCHOOL IS A WEEKLY, TWO-SEMESTER PROGRAM ENCOURAGING YOUNG WOMEN TO BELIEVE IN THEMSELVES AND TO PURSUE PATHS TO HIGHER EDUCATION AND GREATER CAREER OPPORTUNITIES IN STEM. AT NO COST TO THE PARTICIPANTS, GIRLSTART SERVED 85 SCHOOLS, ACROSS 24 DISTRICTS, SERVING 2081 GIRLS IN CENTRAL TEXAS, HOUSTON, NORTH TEXAS, RIO GRANDE VALLEY, SAN ANTONIO, WACO, BOSTON, MA AND THE SOUTH BAY AREA, CA.

    Expenses $788,672 · Revenue $139,147

  • COMMUNITY STEM EDUCATION: GIRLSTART PROVIDES FREE (OR REDUCED-COST), FAMILY FRIENDLY COMMUNITY STEM PROGRAMMING THAT INVOLVES HANDS-ON STEM LEARNING ACTIVITES FOR THOUSANDS OF GIRLS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS EACH YEAR. GIRLSTART'S COMMUNITY STEM PROGRAMS INCLUDE THE GIRLS IN STEM CONFERENCE, STARRY NIGHTS UTILIZING OUR MINI-PLANETARIUM AT OUR AUSTIN HEADQUARTERS, COMMUNITY SCIENCE EXTRAVAGANZAS, BOOTHS AT COMMUNITY EVENTS, AND OUR ONLINE DESTEMER PROGRAMS. GIRLSTART REACHED 8363 GIRLS AND FAMILY MEMBERS THROUGH 80 EVENTS IN 3 STATES.

    Expenses $48,674 · Revenue $8,588

As filed on the 2025 return.

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.

  • SHANE WOODS

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $191,745
    From this org
    $173,383
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $18,362
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $173,383
    Bonus
    not reported
    Other
    not reported
    Deferred
    $5,202
    Nontaxable benefits
    $13,160
    Filer's total
    $191,745

  • Katelyn Wamstead

    PROGRAM OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $114,656
    From this org
    $102,717
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $11,939
    Hours/week
    40

  • SHAMEKA YOUNG

    board chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • CHRISTINA SELF

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JONANNA MIKULENKA

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • PRIYA RAMACHANDRAN

    VICE CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • SMITHA PUROHIT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ISMAIL DANDIA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ERIKA LINFORD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • IBRAHIMA GARBA

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KAT MADELSTEIN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MEGAN LUEDERS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • ANGIE WEYANT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • JENNIFER PRATT

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • KELSY KLEISEN

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $2,500,517
    Expenses
    $2,374,122
    Contributions
    $2,166,061
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,839,266
    Expenses
    $2,712,875
    Contributions
    $1,499,721
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,824,394
    Expenses
    $2,852,045
    Contributions
    $2,574,587
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,854,566
    Expenses
    $2,510,753
    Contributions
    $2,550,912
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $2,595,464
    Expenses
    $2,457,475
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,575,486

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,396,530
    Expenses
    $2,261,223
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,539,066

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,952,096
    Expenses
    $2,343,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,245,448

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,732,573
    Expenses
    $2,461,603
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,616,190

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,824,519
    Expenses
    $1,940,187
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,366,088

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,714,775
    Expenses
    $1,648,238
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,473,278

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,444,889
    Expenses
    $1,508,052
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,390,039

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,238,676
    Expenses
    $1,359,102
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,453,743

  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,089,786
    Expenses
    $1,214,648
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,557,812

  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,089,761
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,710,732

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

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.