· Public charity
Visionary Women
To engage conversations with innovative leaders funding high impact initiatives for women and girls.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $600,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $737,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $137,500 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k24 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOM'S FIRST LOCKBOX | $100,000 |
| THE FAMILY PLACE | $50,000 |
| ALEX MORGAN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $40,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $20,000 |
| COALITION FOR ENGAGED EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| THE MIDNIGHT MISSION | $20,000 |
| EBELL FRIENDS | $20,000 |
| ARTWORXLA | $20,000 |
| PROJECT GLIMMER | $15,000 |
| EMPOWERED NETWORK | $15,000 |
| AVIVA FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $824k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Visionary Women’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. Read by recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 58% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
GIRLS WHO CODE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $130k · revenue +5%
VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC2× · 2020–2021 · $70k · revenue +66%- CSCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $65k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- BGBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · $75k · revenue +2%
- WFWomen for Afghan Women Incone grant, 2021 · $60k · revenue -61%
- MHMLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -73% · 36% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The core mission of the young women's freedom center is to inspire and empower young women who have been involved in the juvenile justice system, criminal justice system, and/or the underground street economy to create a positive change in…
Ultraviolet education fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives…
Women's foundation of california amplifies the voices and experiences of community leaders, redistributes knowledge, power, and resources, and mobilizes communities and funders to advance justice for all.
Girl effect works for a future in which every girl is in control of her body, her health, her learning and her livelihood. we work across africa and asia with adolescent girls and young women using the power of media and technology to…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
She's the first (stf) teams up with grassroots leaders to make sure girls everywhere are educated, respected, and heard. our vision is a world where every girl can choose her own future.
Girls for gender equity (gge) works intergenerationally, through a black feminist lens, to achieve gender and racial justice by centering the leadership of black girls and gender-expansive young people of color to reshape culture and…
The archer school for girls is an educational community that supports and challenges young women to discover their passions and realize their true potential by a) providing a rigorous, integrated college preparatory curriculum that fosters…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Who Code Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wize Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
147 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds GIRLS WHO CODE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds INDEGO AFRICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harvest Home Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds EBELL FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds JUST LIKE MY CHILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Engaged Education ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Girls With Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds Special Needs Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AFYA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
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.
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
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 Visionary Women 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.
- You Are More Than Inc — 100% of income from government
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
- National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
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.