California · Nonprofit
AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,376 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($159,575). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $282k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $380k
- Net assets
- $830k
What American Women for International Understanding does
Mission
To build bridges of international understanding through personal exchange and collaboration.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Awiu strives to build bridges of international understanding by fostering goodwill and connection between u.s. Women leaders and their international counterparts through nonpartisan, women-led action. Our programs aim to empower women to become highly effective global leaders, communicators and problem-solvers. Since its founding in 1968, awiu has sponsored 65 delegations to more than 100 countries to create connection with women leaders around the world. Awiu's annual international women of courage (iwoc) celebration honors and provides grants to the u.s. Secretary of state's iwoc awardees. Through our global micro-grants program, we build relationships with women and girls worldwide and support them in the areas of education, health and entrepreneurial development. Micro-grant recipients are selected through a rigorous application and review process. Awiu's passport program provides young women with meaningful networking and mentorship opportunities as they develop international exchange projects. Awiu's annual coir symposium in washington, d.c., offers young people the opportunity to learn about careers in international affairs and engage directly with women leaders in the…
$297,086 spentof which $122,592 as grants$31,479 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $297,086.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $636k to $853k (+34%).
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.
106% of AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
Rachel Unkovic
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $20k → $52k.
4 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 74% 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 AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
74% 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 AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 56% · 2020 59% · 2021 87% · 2022 65% · 2023 47% — 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
60% of AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
74% of AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $101k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside California, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $280k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $380k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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 AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING: 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 AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING?
- AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING (California) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $380,376 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($159,575). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 74% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $380,376 in grants to AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $159,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN WOMEN FOR INTERNATIONAL UNDERSTANDING 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 10 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