California · Nonprofit
CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS
CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,598,816 to it, the largest being ESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH ($1,706,618). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS does
Mission
Womens Health Specialists vision is a world where women control their own bodies,reproduction, and sexuality. The center is dedicated to providing women-controlledhealth care for all women.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health Care ServicesWomens Health Specialists (WHS) offers a full range of reproductive health servicesto primarily low income, uninsured women and men in a 12-county region of northeastern California. Services include: routine and annual reproductive healthservices, all FDA approved contraceptive service, gynecological care, screening andtreatment for sexually transmitted diseases, and breast cancer screening. Agencyserves all women and men, regardless of ability to pay both in-person and throughtelephonic services.
$2,642,815 spent94% of program spendingOutreach/EducationOutreach and Education Program provided outreach and education services to over50,000 people annually in Northern California. The goal of the WHS Outreach andEducation program is to provide information, education, and referrals for allreproductive health concerns facing women and men including: methods and use of birth control; emergency contraception; sexually transmitted infection prevention and treatment; reproductive organ cancer screening, HPV/HIV education and prevention.
$159,755 spent6% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,802,570.
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 2021 to 2022, from $3.0M to $3.8M (+23%).
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: 2017 6% · 2021 10% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
17% of CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $550k → $713k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS’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
CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
71% 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 CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 100% · 2019 65% · 2020 99% · 2021 58% · 2022 34% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
17% of CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
95% of CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $202k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS?
- CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS (California) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,598,816 to it, the largest being ESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH ($1,706,618). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $3,598,816 in grants to CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS?
- ESSENTIAL ACCESS HEALTH is the largest funder on record, with $1,706,618 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHICO FEMINIST WOMENS HEALTH CENTER dba WOMENS HEALTH SPECIALISTS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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