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Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children

Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,905,246 to it, the largest being Cabin Road Foundation dated April 4 2011 ($2,500,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$4.7M
Revenue FY2025
84
Funders on record
$21M
Grants received
$7.2M
Net assets
49/84 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 81%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.7M) Expenses 100 ($1.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.0M)2018 Revenue 145 ($2.5M) Expenses 142 ($2.0M) Net assets 124 ($2.5M)2019 Revenue 216 ($3.7M) Expenses 148 ($2.1M) Net assets 206 ($4.1M)2020 Revenue 346 ($5.9M) Expenses 223 ($3.1M) Net assets 347 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 256 ($4.4M) Expenses 247 ($3.5M) Net assets 394 ($7.8M)2022 Revenue 346 ($5.9M) Expenses 296 ($4.2M) Net assets 483 ($9.6M)2023 Revenue 259 ($4.4M) Expenses 507 ($7.2M) Net assets 346 ($6.9M)2024 Revenue 274 ($4.7M) Expenses 332 ($4.7M) Net assets 354 ($7.0M)2025 Revenue 272 ($4.7M) Expenses 314 ($4.4M) Net assets 366 ($7.2M)
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Revenue (272)Expenses (314)Net assets (366)

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 15% · 2022 12% · 2023 2% · 2024 34% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$307k
17
$485k
18
$1.6M
19
$2.8M
20
$922k
21
$1.8M
22
$2.7M
23
$10k
24
$238k
25
17
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 30 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $3.6M.

28 of 84 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)41% 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 Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 84 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

Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

49% 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 Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children.

12%
largest funder
31%
top three
~17
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 37% · 2019 29% · 2020 20% · 2021 31% · 2022 25% · 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

47% of Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

59% of Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children's grant income comes from California funders.

VT
WA
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 84 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Organizations like Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 8%Fundraising 7%

Governance

8
board members
63%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

83%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: 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 Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children?
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children (California) receives grants from 84 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,905,246 to it, the largest being Cabin Road Foundation dated April 4 2011 ($2,500,000). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children have?
IRS filings report 84 organizations giving $20,905,246 in grants to Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children?
Cabin Road Foundation dated April 4 2011 is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 84funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing