California · Nonprofit
AFRICAN WOMEN RISING
AFRICAN WOMEN RISING (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,620,423 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,600,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.9M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $7.6M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What African Women Rising does
Mission
Empowering women and girls affected by war with tools to rise out of extreme poverty. Vision build social, economic and political equity for women and girls in africa.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Agriculture: providing trainings to 2,840 new participants in perma gardens and field crop production and continuing support to 3,620. The perma garden program helps participants develop a regenerative food forest using resilience design to provide food security throughout the year. 95% of participants created a garden and are food secure, have increased disposable income and are able to share food with neighbors. 1,320 of the new participants are refugees from south sudan, living in refugee camps in uganda. The field crop program focuses on soil fertility and water conservation to increase yields. Both programs provide monthly support through community extension workers. Agricultural programs provide food and income to over 25,000 dependents. Participants in both programs planted 130,000 fruit and native trees.training-of-trainers certification course in regenerative agriculture:this two-week regenerative agricultural training, based on the permaculture design system and agroecological principles, is designed as a training-of-trainers (tot) certification program. The target audience for this course is program management and staff working in public and private programs who are…
$1,596,895 spent$184,565 earned by the program57% of program spendingMicro finance: provided training in village savings and loans associations and income generating activities to 2,333 new participants and continued to provide support to over 10,000 women. More than 2,000 new businesses were started. Members receive bi-weekly support from community extension workers as they build their businesses. The micro finance program helps support close to 100,000 children.
$764,797 spentof which $30,217 as grants27% of program spendingGirls education program: provide academic support and scholastic materials to over 5,000 students in 17 schools, increasing completion of primary school and continuation to a secondary school education. Awr mentors conducted regular home visits to all female students to ensure continuous participation. 2,600 girls received sanitary kits to enable them to attend school during their period and reduce early dropouts. 11,650 children received scholastic support.
$464,164 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,825,856.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.8M to $2.9M (+66%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
93% of AFRICAN WOMEN RISING’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Linda Eckerbom Cole
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $59k → $1.2M.
14 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AFRICAN WOMEN RISING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFRICAN WOMEN RISING has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
26% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFRICAN WOMEN RISING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 66% · 2019 58% · 2020 44% · 2021 55% · 2022 25% · 2023 32% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
44% of AFRICAN WOMEN RISING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of AFRICAN WOMEN RISING's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AFRICAN WOMEN RISING runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like AFRICAN WOMEN RISING
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AFRICAN WOMEN RISING: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AFRICAN WOMEN RISING?
- AFRICAN WOMEN RISING (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,620,423 to it, the largest being Woka Foundation ($1,600,000). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFRICAN WOMEN RISING have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $7,620,423 in grants to AFRICAN WOMEN RISING, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFRICAN WOMEN RISING?
- Woka Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,600,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFRICAN WOMEN RISING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 47 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing