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Bay Area Women Leader Network

How Women Lead elevates diverse women in the corporate, public, philanthropic, and and nonprofit sectors by cultivating a robust network that trains and connects women executives who are catalysts in their fields.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$60kCivil Rights$27kHealth$20kHousing & Shelter$10kYouth Development$10kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $10,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $12,170 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,170 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$-374713
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Atoot Inc$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%The Art of Yoga Project: $10k → 8%Atoot Inc: $10k → 12%Empower Her Network: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Woman Inc

W.O.M.A.N., Inc. supports survivors of domestic violence and their loved ones along their healing journeys, bridging value rich networks designed to address intersections of violence. In all our work, we strive to continually increase our…

Health
2
Mukti International

Mukti is a Sanskrit word that means "freedom from oppression and exploitation". Our goal is to see women and children find pathways to freedom. We partner with organizations around Asia that are on the frontlines helping to rescue and…

Crime & Legal
3
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
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Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
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Maia

MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.

International
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My Sisters House

My sisters house mission is to serve asian and pacific islander and other underserved women and children impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking by providing a culturally appropriate and responsive safe haven,…

Crime & Legal
7
Women Empowering Women
Unclassified
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Shadhika Project

Shadhika believes in a future where each person in India can choose their own path to meaning, purpose, and happiness. Through global philanthropy and in-country programming, Shadhika believes that education is the most effective vehicle…

9
Sister India Ltd

Sister India provides a holistic program, protecting and uplifting women and girls, ending trafficking, child marriages and child labor, lifting families from poverty, and ensuring girls can go to school instead. We research effective…

International
10
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
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Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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Bay Area Women Leader Network

How Women Lead elevates diverse women in the corporate, public, philanthropic, and and nonprofit sectors by cultivating a robust network that trains and connects women executives who are catalysts in their fields. We collectively donate to…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 5050 Women On Boards Inc and the most unlike its peers is Atoot Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
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Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · OtherCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHI…PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC — $10,000 · OtherPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INCVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFO…AKHILA HEALTH — $10,000 · OtherAKHILA HEALTHTWBD INC — $10,000 · OtherTWBD INCEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOW…ATOOT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesATOOT INCMAITRI — $10,000 · Human ServicesMAITRITHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT5050 WOMEN ON BOARDS INC — $16,800 · Civil Rights5050 WOMEN ON…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 · EducationNarika — $10,000 · Community ImprovementAlliance for Girls — $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$50,000Human Services$40,000Civil Rights$16,800Education$10,000Community Improvement$10,000Youth Development$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget5050 WOMEN ON BOARDS INC — $16,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetATOOT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNarika — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Girls — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAITRI — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTWBD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco FoundationCA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Women's Foundation of California · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bay Area Women Leader Network funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 47%
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network47% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Bay Area Women Leader Network?

Find your warmest path to Bay Area Women Leader Network through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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