· Public charity
Visionary Women
To engage conversations with innovative leaders funding high impact initiatives for women and girls.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
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 |
| PROJECT ANGEL FOOD | $40,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ALEX MORGAN FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $25,000 |
| CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| CORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC | $20,000 |
| EBELL FRIENDS | $20,000 |
| ARTWORXLA | $20,000 |
| THE MIDNIGHT MISSION | $20,000 |
| COALITION FOR ENGAGED EDUCATION | $20,000 |
| AVIVA FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $15,000 |
| EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE PACIFIC-ASIAN FAMILY INC | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Visionary Women’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 58%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
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…
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.
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
Aauw advances gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
Our mission is to improve the performance of health workers and strengthen the systems in which they work.
How this is measured
147 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Proyecto Pastoral ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY NORTHRIDGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Women for Afghan Women Inc ↗
- Who funds EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STREET SYMPHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Family Place ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds EBELL FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Harvest Home Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ANGEL FOOD ↗
- Who funds JUST LIKE MY CHILD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds WESTSIDE INFANT-FAMILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc ↗
- Who funds UNION RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH CENTER ↗
- Who funds STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR COLLEGE-READY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds DIY GIRLS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds Coalition for Engaged Education ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDRIA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Special Needs Network Inc ↗
- Who funds JACARANDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Why Not Prosper Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Visionary Women funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Visionary Women. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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