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Women's Economic Ventures

WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES is committed to the economic empowerment of women cultivating the power within each woman to realize her dreams, achieve financial independence, and succeed on her own terms.

$826k
Granted FY2023
1
Itemized grants FY2023
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$68k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$67,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$67,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 22
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$4.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Women's Economic Ventures funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20231$68k0%
FY20222$269k50%
FY20212$16k50%
FY20198$83k100%
FY201822$165kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Human Services$350kPublic Safety & Disaster$235kEducation$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childrens Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara Co$322,50022%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project$27,00020%
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College$15,00020%
Hiptique$10,0001n/a
Triunfo Creek LLC$10,0001n/a
Camping Adventures$10,0001n/a
Dream Intl Beauty Academy$10,0001n/a
Trancas Riders & Ropers$10,0001n/a
Nature Trust Of The Santa Monica Mountai$10,00015%
Five Threads Brewing Co$10,0001n/a
Show all 32 grantees
All grantees of Women's Economic Ventures by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Childrens Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara Co$322,50022%
Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project$27,00020%
The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College$15,00020%
Hiptique$10,0001n/a
Triunfo Creek LLC$10,0001n/a
Camping Adventures$10,0001n/a
Dream Intl Beauty Academy$10,0001n/a
Trancas Riders & Ropers$10,0001n/a
Nature Trust Of The Santa Monica Mountai$10,00015%
Five Threads Brewing Co$10,0001n/a
Hypercat Inc$7,5001n/a
Yes Dance$7,5001n/a
Pacific Pride Foundation$7,50011%
Buena Physical Therapy Inc$7,5001n/a
The Farm Cart$7,5001n/a
Ex Voto Chocolates$7,5001n/a
Heres The Scoop LLC$7,5001n/a
Alessaro Designs Inc$7,5001n/a
Coachability Inc$7,5001n/a
Mesa Produce$7,5001n/a
Mesa Salsa Co$7,5001n/a
Los Padres Outfitters LLC$7,5001n/a
Trystology Inc$7,5001n/a
Food Harmonics LLC$7,5001n/a
Michaela Boehm Inc$7,5001n/a
The Perfect Fit$7,5001n/a
Bon Fortune$7,5001n/a
Carpinteria Wine Co$7,5001n/a
Visionality Partners$7,5001n/a
Main Street Meats & Foods$7,5001n/a
Very Ventura Inc$7,5001n/a
Talon$7,5001n/a

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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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Santa Barbara Foundat…
Santa Barbara FoundationCA12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Women's Economic Ventures

How much does Women's Economic Ventures give?
Women's Economic Ventures reported 1 itemized grants totaling $67,500, out of $826,250 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Women's Economic Ventures fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2023, its largest causes are Human Services (58%), Public Safety & Disaster (39%), Education (3%).
Who are Women's Economic Ventures's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2023: Childrens Resource & Referral of Santa Barbara Co ($323k), Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project ($27k), The Foundation for Santa Barbara City College ($15k).
Does Women's Economic Ventures fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Economic Ventures?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation.
Where is Women's Economic Ventures based?
Women's Economic Ventures is based in CA.

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 32 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 $964k 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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