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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
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $10,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $12,170 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,170 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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. Its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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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
2
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
3
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
4
Saheli Inc

To empower south asian women and families to lead safe and healthy lives. saheli offers free services to the underserved south asian women experiencing domestic abuse who face barriers to legal systems, public benefits, and achieving safe…

Human Services
5
Women Empowering Women
Unclassified
6
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
7
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
8
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…

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9
Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising
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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
11
United Women of the Horn

United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…

Civil Rights
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 5050 Women On Boards Inc; 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
6/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ATOOT INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesATOOT INCEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK: $10,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOW…MAITRI: $10,000 · Human ServicesMAITRITHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECTPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC: $10,000 · OtherPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRI…CHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · OtherCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA…VERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherVERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT …TWBD INC: $10,000 · OtherTWBD INC5050 WOMEN ON BOARDS INC: $16,800 · Civil Rights5050 WOMEN ON…Narika: $10,000 · Community ImprovementAlliance for Girls: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 · EducationAKHILA HEALTH: $10,000 · Health
Human Services$40,000Other$40,000Civil Rights$16,800Community Improvement$10,000Youth Development$10,000Education$10,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco Fou…Women's Foundation of…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bay Area Women Leader Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Women Leader Network. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 47%
  • Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network: 47% 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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