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Center for Advancing Women in Technology

To provide computing education for more women in college by creating new interdisciplinary computing education programs.

$457k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$165k
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 FY20182025.

Education$1.9MScience & Tech$639kEmployment$186kCommunity Improvement$41k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $142k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $315k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$910k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN JOSE UNIVERSITY TOWER FOUNDATION$165,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$150,000
WEST VALLEY MISSION FOUNDATION$41,000
PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$30,000
OHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION$26,000
THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE$25,662
LAS POSITAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION$18,930
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WEST VALLEY MISSION FOUNDATION: $41k → 8%THE FOUNDATION OF CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%THE UNIVERSITY CORP SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY: $166k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $187k → 11%CA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $204k → 12%PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $115k → 16%SILICON VALLEY CYBERSECURITY INSTITUTE: $10k → 8%THE FOUNDATION OF CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $89k → 11%CA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $99k → 12%PASADENA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $30k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $105k → 16%OHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $26k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE: $85k → 11%CA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $98k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $94k → 16%OHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $17k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION: $38k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $150k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY: $186k → 10%LAS POSITAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $35k → 10%LAS POSITAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $21k → 10%LAS POSITAS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $19k → 10%THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE: $26k → 10%THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE: $25k → 10%THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE: $24k → 10%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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Center for Advancing Women in Technology’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Center for Advancing Women in Technologylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 9 repeat orgs$554k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
3

Total granted

$2.2M
$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+117%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TT
    THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2025 · $729k · revenue +41%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +45%
  • TF
    THE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +865%

Funded once

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
    one grant, 2018 · $186k
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $166k · revenue +117%
  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY CYBERSECURITY INSTIT UTEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +116%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Southwestern College Foundation

Southwestern College Foundation is dedicated to raising friends and funds that support all aspects of educational advancement at Southwestern College.

2
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
3
San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation

The mission of san mateo county community colleges foundation is to promote student success and program innovation by providing financial support to help san mateo county community college district students achieve their goals. the…

Education
4
Foundation for the Seattle Colleges

The Foundation for the Seattle Colleges exists to advance fundraising efforts for the Seattle Community College District. We seek to attract financial resources which support students so they may be successful; maintain the quality and…

5
California State University Foundation

Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…

Philanthropy
6
Cabrillo College Foundation

To provide private support for student scholarships, emergency financial support to increase student success, innovative mentoring, and support for youth to attend college and support for academic programs and facilities.

Education
7
Lake Tahoe Community College Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to work for educational excellence by assisting and encouraging investment in the development and growth of educational opportunities at lake tahoe community college district

Education
8
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
9
Shasta College Foundation

Support shasta college by building strong partnerships, generating friendships and financial support, and promoting excellence in education and service to the community.

Education
10
The University Foundation California State University Chico

To build a culture of philanthropy by harnessing the expertise and passion of our alumni, parents, and friends to raise private support for the education, practical research, and public service that transforms the lives of our students,…

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pasadena City College Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Instit Ute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $729,311 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITYTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $166,400 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $90,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCOLas Positas College Foundation — $75,000 · EducationLas Positas College FoundationTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE — $75,000 · EducationTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGEPasadena City College Foundation — $70,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY — $400,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITYREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDE — $400,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT RIVERSIDEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $313,467 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $186,316 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY+1 more — $43,000 · OtherWEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $41,000 · Community Improvement
Education$1,365,711Other$1,342,783Community Improvement$41,000

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 budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $729,311 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE — $166,400 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $90,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetLas Positas College Foundation — $75,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF CHABOT COLLEGE — $75,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetPasadena City College Foundation — $70,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOHLONE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $43,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $41,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CYBERSECURITY INSTIT UTE — $10,000 over 1y, 16% 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.

Foundation for California Community CollegesCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for California Community Colleges · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Center for Advancing Women in Technology 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Center for Advancing Women in Technology?

    Find your warmest path to Center for Advancing Women in Technology 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 14 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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