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Women in California Leadership Inc

Promote and support the development of women in science technology engineering and mathematics and address the disparities in california and the persons filling these key positions.

$437k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $51,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $437,273 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $386,273 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YWCA San Gabriel Valley$6,000
Women s Fund El Dorado$5,000
For The People Taskforce$5,000
League of Women Voters N San Diego$5,000
TriValley Haven for Women$5,000
Afghan Coalition$5,000
Highly Favored A Blessing to Others$5,000
Mary s Path$5,000
Casa Familiar$5,000
Special Spirit Inc- The Learning Ranch$5,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Mary s Path: $5k → 10%Afghan Coalition: $5k → 10%Casa Familiar: $5k → 11%Highly Favored A Blessing to Others: $5k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Northeastern Utah Friends Against Family Violence

Friends Against Family Violence (FAFV) is a community based nonprofit domestic violence program. FAFV provides services, shelter, crisis intervention, and prevention in the Tri-County of Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett. We provide services…

Health
2
S a F E Shelter

We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…

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3
The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter
4
Home for Homeless Women
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5
Friendly Hand Foundation Dba Friendly House

At Friendly House, our mission is to inspire and empower women of all gender experiences, on their journey to overcoming substance use disorders and mental health challenges. Our program offers a blend of clinical expertise, cultural…

Health
6
Community Forward Sf Inc

Community Forward SF's support services create pathways from crisis to long-term stability through our Women's Wellness Pathway, a proven continuum linking a 24/7 drop-in center, shelter, transitional housing, behavioral health care, and…

Health
7
Safe Embrace

Safe Embrace is committed to ending the cycle of domestic and sexual violence with innovative prevention and intervention services. We help victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault, and human trafficking become survivors by providing…

Health
8
Mary Elizabeth Inn the

To end the cycle of violence and homelessness for women in San Francisco by providing permanent housing and supportive services.

Human Services
9
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
10
Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley

With assistance of volunteers from the community and faith groups, the organization works to assist homeless children and their families to achieve sustainable independence, while offering hope, compassion, and preserving individual…

Housing & Shelter
11
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
12
Mary's Mercy Center

Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Afghan Coalition; the most unlike its peers is Highly Favored a Blessing to Others. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLY FAVORED A BLESSING TO OTHERS: $5,000 · Human ServicesHIGHLY FAVORED A BLESSING TO OTHERSCASA FAMILIAR INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCASA FAMILIAR INCMARY'S SHELTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesMARY'S SHELTERAFGHAN COALITION: $5,000 · Human ServicesAFGHAN COALITIONYWCA of San Gabriel Valley: $6,000 · OtherYWCA of San Gabriel ValleyTri-Valley Haven For Women: $5,000 · OtherTri-Valley Haven For WomenLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS NORTH COUNTY SAN DIEGO: $5,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS NORTH COUNTY…El Dorado Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyEl Dorado C…FOR THE PEOPLE TASKFORCE: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOR THE PEO…SPECIAL SPIRIT INC: $5,000 · HealthSPECIAL SPI…
Human Services$20,000Other$16,000Philanthropy$5,000Food & Nutrition$5,000Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYWCA of San Gabriel Valley: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLY FAVORED A BLESSING TO OTHERS: $5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetCASA FAMILIAR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEl Dorado Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARY'S SHELTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR THE PEOPLE TASKFORCE: $5,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTri-Valley Haven For Women: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAFGHAN COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSPECIAL SPIRIT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Women in California Leadership Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women in California Leadership Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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
    3report 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
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Women in California Leadership Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Women in California Leadership Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $553k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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