California · Nonprofit
BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK
BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,455 to it, the largest being Egide Family Foundation ($325,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $974k
- Net assets
- $-520177
What Bay Area Women Leader Network does
Mission
How Women Lead elevates diverse women in the corporate, public, philanthropic, and and nonprofit sectors by cultivating a robust network that trains and connects women executives who are catalysts in their fields. We collectively donate to organizations serving women and girls. Our transformative leadership training propels leaders forward and we create supportive networks that help break the glass ceiling.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025 we awarded one $10,000 grants through our How Women Give program and a few smaller grants. Grants were awarded to organizations serving vulnerable women and girls. Through How Women Give, we also connect these critical community organizations to a network of leaders who want to be board members and volunteers for their organizations. We believe that women and girls deserve equal opportunities and together we are committed to their justice and equality.
$12,170 spentof which $12,170 as grants$13,836 earned by the program1% of program spendingIn 2025 we offered a robust calendar of leadership, training and networking events including monthly events, our virtual GetOnBoard Week conference, and trainings to teach investing basics. Our monthly events garnered over 3500 attendees in 2025 and including topics such as Corporate Board Readiness Training, Interpreting Financial Statements, and Introduction to Angel and Venture Investing. In 2025, we hosted our sixth hybrid 5-day conference focused on gender diversity on corporate boards. We held over 40 events on skill building, board readiness, networking and timely topic panel discussions for over 2000 guests across the US.
$1,645,518 spent$1,507,598 earned by the program92% of program spendingIn 2025, we offered 3 cohorts of our Women Leaders for the World Fellowship, an intensive leadership fellowship for global women leaders designed to catapult their leadership to the next level, scale their impact, and connect them to coaches and advisors who can help them implement a plan of action. Our cohorts had 54 fellows. In 2025, we launched our first ever cohort focused on movement building leaders.
$137,487 spent$175,531 earned by the program8% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,795,175.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $1.5M to $395k (−74%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 4% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Julie Abrams
Founder, CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $12k → $118k.
12 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK’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
BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
53% 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 BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 52% · 2019 82% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 21% — 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
33% of BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK'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
BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $476k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK?
- BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $974,455 to it, the largest being Egide Family Foundation ($325,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $974,455 in grants to BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK?
- Egide Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $325,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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