California · Public charity
Visionary Women
To engage conversations with innovative leaders funding high impact initiatives for women and girls.
- $738k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 72%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $600k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $775k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 72% of the organizations Visionary Women funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $600k | 54% |
| FY2024 | 29 | $675k | 72% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $325k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $239k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 37 | $377k | 76% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $558k | 73% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $343k | 96% |
| FY2017 | 8 | $115k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Girls Who Code Inc | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Women's Law Center | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Black Girl Ventures Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Vital Voices Global Partnership Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Coro Southern California Inc | $65,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Indego Africa Project | $63,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Proyecto Pastoral | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| California State University Northridge Foundation | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Women for Afghan Women Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $55,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 138 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Visionary Women supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 118 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Weingart Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · S Mark Taper Foundation · The Green Foundation
How this is measured
About Visionary Women
- How much does Visionary Women give?
- Visionary Women reported 26 itemized grants totaling $600,000, out of $737,500 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Visionary Women fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Arts & Culture (15%), International (10%).
- Who are Visionary Women's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Girls Who Code Inc ($130k), National Women's Law Center ($110k), Black Girl Ventures Foundation ($75k).
- Does Visionary Women fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 72% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Visionary Women?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Weingart Foundation.
- Where is Visionary Women based?
- Visionary Women is based in CA.
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