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Women's Foundation of California

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$10MCivil Rights$8.4MPhilanthropy$5.0MHealth$2.1MCrime & Legal$1.9MEducation$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.6MArts & Culture$1.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $861k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $497k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION$500,000
CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER$125,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$125,000
HARNESS COMMUNITY$125,000
HUMAN OPTIONS INC$65,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIROMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$57,000
TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER$47,000
TIDES CENTER$47,000
SAN GABRIEL VALLEY LGBTQ CENTER$45,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS EDUCATION FUND$44,000
SOGOREA TE' LAND TRUST$35,000
STARTING OVER$30,000
EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES$30,000
TRANSGENDER DISTRICT$30,000
COURAGE CALIFORNIA$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ElderHelp of San Diego: $33k → 11%Haven Womens Center of Stanislaus: $195k → 15%Two Feathers Native: $30k → 18%Freedom Inc Black Feminist Future: $100k → 13%Haven Women's Center of Stanislaus: $67k → 15%Filipino Advocates for Justice: $30k → 10%HAVEN WOMEN'S CENTER OF STANISLAUS: $66k → 15%NUESTRA CASA EAST PALO ALTO: $30k → 8%Human Options: $195k → 10%Haven Women's Center: $55k → 15%HUMAN OPTIONS: $66k → 10%HAVEN WOMENS CENTER OF STANISLAUS: $40k → 15%HUMAN OPTIONS: $40k → 10%Center for Young Womens Development dba Young Womens Freedom Center: $190k → 10%Young Women's Freedom Center: $30k → 10%Mixteco Indigena Community Organizing Project: $90k → 10%Tides Center: $100k → 10%Todec Legal Center Perris: $75k → 11%Tides Center: $100k → 10%TODEC Legal Center Perris: $30k → 11%Tides Center California Coalition for Reproductive Freedom: $50k → 10%Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans: $30k → 11%Tides Center People Organizing to Demand Environmental & Economic Rights: $30k → 10%Strong Hearted Native Women's Coalition: $195k → 11%STRONG HEARTED NATIVE WOMEN'S COALITION: $40k → 11%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $200k → 10%Courage California Institute: $30k → 14%South Asian Network: $30k → 14%Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth: $30k → 10%Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project: $90k → 10%California Child Care Resource and Referral Network: $90k → 10%California Child Care Resource and Referral Network: $30k → 10%Transgender Gender Variant Intersex Justice Project: $30k → 10%Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $42k → 10%California Child Care Resource & Referral Network: $50k → 10%Jenesse Center Inc: $195k → 14%Monsoon Asians & Pacific Islanders in Sol: $30k → 10%Jenesse Center Inc: $40k → 14%JENESSE CENTER INC: $40k → 14%FREEFROM: $50k → 14%FREEFROM: $50k → 14%Rainbow Services: $195k → 14%FreeFrom: $50k → 14%Rainbow Services: $67k → 14%FreeFrom: $50k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES: $66k → 14%Rainbow Services: $55k → 14%RAINBOW SERVICES: $40k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
CO
MD
AZ
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 21% of Women's Foundation of California’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Women's Foundation of Californialessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23M · 217 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

217 repeat relationships: 48 still active in FY2025, 169 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

217
94

Total granted

$23M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+12%

Still filing today

99%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Time For Change Foundation
    5× · 2020–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +94%
  • THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER
    7× · 2019–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +578%
  • HC
    HARNESS COMMUNITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $583k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
    one grant, 2018 · $437k · revenue -33%
  • II
    ILLUMINATIVE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $200k · revenue -97%
  • YB
    YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2020 · $127k · revenue -28%
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.

04Its 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
San Francisco Women Against Rape

San Francisco Women Against Rape is a community-based rape crisis center. We provide support to sexual assault survivors, their family members, significant others, and friends. We use education as a tool of prevention. Direct services…

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2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
4
The Network Advocating Against Domestic Violence

The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…

Human Services
5
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
6
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County

The mission of domestic violence and sexual assault services is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, and to lead the community toward ending these abuses of power.

Health
7
Community Violence Solutions

CVS is dedicated to working to end sexual assault and family violence through prevention, crisis services, and treatment.

Health
8
California Center for Movement Legal Services

The California Center for Movement Legal Services (Movement Legal) provides legal services in the pursuit of improving the lives of California's traditionally underserved residents, carrying out legal work that fosters community led policy…

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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11
Lotus Legal Clinic Inc

LOTUS Legal Clinic invests in survivors of human trafficking and sexutal violence by innovatively blending comprehensive legal services, victims rights representation and therapeutic arts programming that results in survivor-driven…

Crime & Legal
12
Domestic Violence Project

The mission of SafeHouse Center is to empower survivors of both sexual and intimate partner violence by providing advocacy, support, and promoting social change within our community.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca of Glendale and Pasadena; the most unlike its peers is Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

326 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. 326 of the 332 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
320/326
Grantees still filing
221/326
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $4,092,135 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUND…AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $1,919,937 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATIO…THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $1,096,193 · PhilanthropyTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWE…Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $437,445 · PhilanthropyCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Philanthropy+7 more: $547,000 · Philanthropy+7 moreTIDES CENTER: $532,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERHuman Options Inc: $518,000 · Human ServicesHuman Options IncRAINBOW SERVICES: $453,000 · Human ServicesRAINBOW SERVICESHealthy Alternatives to Violent Environm: $453,000 · Human ServicesHealthy Alternatives t…Mujeres Unidas y Activas: $372,000 · Human ServicesMujeres Unidas y Activ…SISTERSONG INC: $360,000 · Human ServicesSISTERSONG INCYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $304,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $297,000 · Human ServicesStrong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc: $277,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $262,000 · Human ServicesFreefrom: $261,900 · Human ServicesCalifornia Child Care Resource and Referral Network: $243,000 · Human Services+60 more: $2,362,028 · Human Services+60 moreTime For Change Foundation: $1,353,000 · OtherTime For Change FoundationCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $453,000 · OtherCORA Community Overcoming R…ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $398,000 · OtherCommunity United Against Violence Inc: $307,000 · OtherEMPOWER TEHAMA: $453,000 · OtherEMPOWER TEHAMAFamily Violence Law Center: $453,000 · OtherFamily Violence Law CenterAlliance for Girls: $679,612 · OtherAlliance for GirlsCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $283,103 · OtherNEO Philanthropy Inc: $390,000 · Other+57 more: $3,459,101 · Other+57 moreHARNESS COMMUNITY: $582,500 · Civil RightsHARNESS C…CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $410,698 · Civil RightsCALIFORNI…THE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $315,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANS…Transgender Law Center: $210,000 · Civil RightsTransgend…WOMEN ENGAGED INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN ENG…MICHIGAN VOICES: $200,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN …URGE UNITE FOR REPRODUCTIVE & GENDER EQUITY: $155,000 · Civil RightsURGE UNIT…NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN WOMEN'S FORUM: $150,000 · Civil RightsMOTHERING JUSTICE: $150,000 · Civil RightsTHE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT: $135,000 · Civil RightsSPARK REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE NOW: $100,000 · Civil RightsPOWERPAC FOUNDATION: $100,000 · Civil Rights+3 more: $184,000 · Civil Rights+3 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,120,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTU…Community Water Center: $200,000 · EnvironmentCommunity…SOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $175,000 · EnvironmentSOGOREA T…+5 more: $295,000 · Environment+5 moreBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $545,000 · HealthBLACK WOM…CALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $419,500 · HealthCALIFORNI…BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC: $261,900 · HealthBLACK EMO…Forward Together: $238,000 · HealthForward T…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $235,750 · HealthASIAN HEA…CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS: $235,000 · HealthCHICO FEM…+14 more: $793,000 · Health+14 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $817,341 · EducationACT for Women and Girls: $287,319 · EducationSCHOLARMATCH INC: $218,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER: $194,850 · EducationPRISM REPORTS INC: $75,000 · EducationCommunities For A New California Education Fund: $60,947 · Education+1 more: $45,000 · Education
Philanthropy$8,492,710Human Services$6,694,928Other$8,228,816Civil Rights$2,892,198Environment$2,790,000Health$2,728,150Education$1,698,457

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $4,092,135 over 2y, 25% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $2,120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $1,919,937 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTime For Change Foundation: $1,353,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $1,096,193 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $817,341 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetAlliance for Girls: $679,612 over 6y, 32% of budgetHARNESS COMMUNITY: $582,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $545,000 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $532,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Options Inc: $518,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $453,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetEMPOWER TEHAMA: $453,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetFamily Violence Law Center: $453,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetRAINBOW SERVICES: $453,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetHealthy Alternatives to Violent Environm: $453,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties: $437,445 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $419,500 over 9y, 8.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $410,698 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $398,000 over 9y, 9.6% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $390,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas: $372,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $360,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE TRANSLATIN COALITION: $315,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCommunity United Against Violence Inc: $307,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: $304,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $297,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetACT for Women and Girls: $287,319 over 6y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $283,103 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetStrong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc: $277,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $262,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetBLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC: $261,900 over 6y, 16% of budgetFreefrom: $261,900 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES: $261,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCalifornia Child Care Resource and Referral Network: $243,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetForward Together: $238,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES: $235,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS: $235,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC: $218,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $210,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Water Center: $200,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetILLUMINATIVE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWOMEN ENGAGED INC: $200,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMICHIGAN VOICES: $200,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetKHMER GIRLS IN ACTION: $200,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA BUDGET & POLICY CENTER: $194,850 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST: $175,000 over 5y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Time For Change Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds Alliance for Girls ↗
  • Who funds HARNESS COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Human Options Inc ↗
  • Who funds CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ↗
  • Who funds EMPOWER TEHAMA ↗
  • Who funds Family Violence Law Center ↗
  • Who funds RAINBOW SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Healthy Alternatives to Violent Environm ↗
  • Who funds Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA LATINAS FOR REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PARTNERSHIP TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
  • Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRANSLATIN COALITION ↗
  • Who funds Community United Against Violence Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Jenesse Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACT for Women and Girls ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds Strong Hearted Native Womens Coalition Inc ↗
  • Who funds MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BLACK EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL HEALTH COLLEC ↗
  • Who funds Freefrom ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
  • Who funds California Child Care Resource and Referral Network ↗
  • Who funds Forward Together ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLARMATCH 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.

California Physicians…The California Wellne…The California Endowm…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sierra Health Foundat…California Partnershi…East Bay Community Fo…The James Irvine Foun…Weingart FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Liberty Hill Foundati…The David and Lucile …
California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California FdnCA240.6× affinity142 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · The California Wellness Foundation · The California Endowment · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · California Partnership to End Domestic Violence · East Bay Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard 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's Foundation of California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Foundation of California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%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
    1get no government money at all
    92report 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.

    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 332 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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