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Women Giving as One Inc

To drive participation among women in local philanthropy, raise awareness of the unmet needs of nonprofit organizations in the sonoma valley, inspire donors to become more involved with local charities, and make a substantial impact on the long-term sustainability of our nonprofits, all towards building a just and thriving sonoma valley.

$325k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Human Services$548kEducation$321kHealth$321kYouth Development$259kFood & Nutrition$243kEnvironment$242kArts & Culture$211kEmployment$90kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$579k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VINTAGE HOUSE$25,000
KID SCOOP NEWS$25,000
SONOMA IMMIGRANT SERVICES$25,000
SONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT$25,000
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SONOMA VALLEY$25,000
NORTH BAY CHILDREN'S CENTER$25,000
SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS FDN$25,000
VIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRA$25,000
SONOMA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
ART ESCAPE$25,000
LA LUZ CENTER$25,000
COMMUNITY MATTERS$25,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $779k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ON THE MOVE: $25k → 9%NORTH BAY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $25k → 8%ON THE MOVE: $13k → 9%HOMELESS ACTION SONOMA: $24k → 9%NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC: $13k → 8%On the MoveVOICES: $20k → 9%Community Child Care Council: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $25k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW: $25k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW: $25k → 9%Social Advocates for Youth: $20k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW: $13k → 9%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $100k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $50k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $25k → 9%SONOMA IMMIGRANT SERVICES: $25k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING (FISH): $25k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $25k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING (FISH): $25k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $25k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $25k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $25k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $25k → 9%BECOMING INDEPENDENT: $20k → 9%SONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER: $20k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $20k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING (FISH): $13k → 9%SWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC: $13k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $13k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $13k → 9%BECOMING INDEPENDENT: $13k → 9%La Luz Bilingual Center: $10k → 9%BECOMING INDEPENDENT: $10k → 9%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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 26 repeat orgs$471k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +118% since the first grant, against +64% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
20

Total granted

$2.1M
$421k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
+64%

Still filing today

92%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureCrime & LegalFood & NutritionOther

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

  • LL
    LA LUZ CENTER
    5× · 2017–2022 · $173k · revenue +30%
  • VH
    Vintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center
    6× · 2018–2024 · $158k · revenue +118%
  • SL
    SONOMA LAND TRUST
    2× · 2017–2020 · $113k · revenue +334%

Funded once

  • SV
    SONOMA VLY COMMUNITY HEALTH
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • FF
    FOOD FOR ALL
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • CS
    Challenge Sonoma Adventure Ropes Course Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +178%

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.

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Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
3
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Sonoma County Conservation Action

Sonoma County Conservation Action's mission is to better our quality of life in Sonoma County for all generations, through educating and directly engaging the public on local environmental issues and policies using grassroots organizing.

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5
Sonoma Preschool Academy

preschool and after-care for children ages 2-5.

Education
6
Sonoma Valley Health & Recreation Association

Sonoma Valley Health and recreation Association (Sonoma Splash) is dedicated to providing a sustainable state of the art multi-use aquatic and recreation facility accessible to all Sonoma Valley residents for aquatic education and safety,…

Recreation & Sports
7
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
8
Symons Family Fund

The Mission of the Symons Family Fund is to benefit, perform the functions of, and carry out the purposes of the Sonora Area Foundation that engage in charitable activities which benefit the residents of Tuolumne County, California.

Human Services
9
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
10
Sonoma Earth School

To Educate Through Nature

Arts & Culture
11
Friends of the Sonoma Library
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12
Solano Community Foundation

The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Flowery Elementary School Pto. 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 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%18%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr22%20%20–35yr15%28%35–55yr12%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%12%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr22%27%20–35yr15%32%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/48
the rest of the field
10%
258/2,544

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 48 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA LUZ CENTER — $172,676 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTERVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center — $158,170 · Human ServicesVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Ce…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $95,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECTINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $83,170 · Human ServicesINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCA…Friends In Sonoma Helping Inc — $63,170 · Human ServicesFriends In Sonoma Helping IncON THE MOVE — $58,160 · Human ServicesON THE MOVESONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 · Human ServicesSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTERBecoming Independent — $42,859 · Human ServicesNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $38,170 · Human Services+4 more — $72,142 · Human Services+4 moreSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $101,218 · EducationSonoma Valle…10000 DEGREES — $83,170 · Education10000 DEGREE…Challenge Sonoma Adventure Ropes Course Inc — $24,500 · EducationChallenge So…Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $23,000 · EducationCareer Techn…Flowery Elementary School PTO — $20,000 · EducationFlowery Elem…JUST1MIKE — $20,000 · EducationJUST1MIKEKENWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,030 · EducationKID SCOOP NEWS — $88,170 · Arts & CultureKID SCOOP NE…VIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS — $87,878 · Arts & CultureVIVO YOUTH O…Sebastiani Theatre Foundation Inc — $45,000 · Arts & CultureSebastiani T…ARTESCAPE — $45,000 · Arts & CultureARTESCAPETRANSCENDENCE THEATRE COMPANY — $13,170 · Arts & CultureSONOMA VLY COMMUNITY HEALTH — $100,000 · OtherSONOMA VLY COMMUNITY HEALTHSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES — $67,359 · OtherSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICESFOOD FOR ALL — $25,000 · OtherPETS LIFELINE — $23,170 · OtherSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC — $108,170 · OtherSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INCCANCER SUPPORT SONOMA — $50,786 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT SONOMASQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $32,370 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $69,990 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA…COMMUNITY MATTERS — $44,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY MATTERSSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation — $25,000 · Other+5 more — $81,650 · Other+5 moreSONOMA LAND TRUST — $113,170 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAN…Sonoma Ecology Center — $82,859 · EnvironmentSonoma Eco…NORTH COAST RESOURCE CONSERVATION & DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL — $20,000 · EnvironmentNORTH COAS…VALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $13,170 · EnvironmentVALLEY OF …AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $13,170 · EnvironmentAUDUBON CA…Sonoma Valley Education Foundation — $153,170 · PhilanthropyREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFarm to Pantry — $9,850 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$828,517Education$281,918Arts & Culture$279,218Other$627,995Environment$242,369Philanthropy$153,170Food & Nutrition$109,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA LUZ CENTER — $172,676 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center — $158,170 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation — $153,170 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $113,170 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSONOMA OVERNIGHT SUPPORT INC — $108,170 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSonoma Valley Mentoring Alliance — $101,218 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $95,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetKID SCOOP NEWS — $88,170 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetVIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS — $87,878 over 4y, 12% of budget10000 DEGREES — $83,170 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $83,170 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSonoma Ecology Center — $82,859 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $69,990 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSONOMA VALLEY TEEN SERVICES — $67,359 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetFriends In Sonoma Helping Inc — $63,170 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetON THE MOVE — $58,160 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT SONOMA — $50,786 over 3y, 39% of budgetSebastiani Theatre Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetARTESCAPE — $45,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSONOMA COMMUNITY CENTER — $45,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY MATTERS — $44,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBecoming Independent — $42,859 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $38,170 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $32,370 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSonoma Immigrant Services Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChallenge Sonoma Adventure Ropes Course Inc — $24,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetHomeless Action Sonoma Inc — $23,972 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetFlowery Elementary School PTO — $20,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetLIFEWORKS OF SONOMA COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJUST1MIKE — $20,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSWEETWATER SPECTRUM INC — $13,170 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRANSCENDENCE THEATRE COMPANY — $13,170 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSOROPTIMIIST INTERNATIONAL OF THE 115416 — $13,170 over 1y, 31% of budgetVALLEY OF THE MOON NATURAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION — $13,170 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $13,170 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRuthless Kindness — $12,510 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFarm to Pantry — $9,850 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationSonoma County Vintner…Marin Community Found…The Vadasz Family Fou…Simon Blattner Family…Sonoma Valley Vintner…Bothin FoundationKhr McNeely Family Fo…Manitou FundSpeedway Children's C…Exchange Bank Foundat…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA67.5× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Vadasz Family Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Khr McNeely Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · Speedway Children's Charities · Exchange Bank 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 Women Giving as One Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report 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

    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.

    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 48 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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