California · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,703 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $85k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $250k
- Net assets
- $213k
What Society of Women Engineers does
Mission
Educational - inform public of qualifications, abilities, and achievements of women engineers to improve utilization of engineering talent for economic and social benefit of humanity, and to encourage young women to enter the engineering professions and to guide them in their education programs. Awarded $21000 scholarships (grants) to 11 young women pursuing degrees in engineering or computer science. Delivered week-long summer program for GetSET (Get Science, Engr, Tech) program to about 90 high school girls yearly, as well as targeted programs throughout school year. Provided membership professional development sessions throughout year.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Scholarship Program. From monies raised, paid 11 scholarships to graduating high school seniors, undergraduate, and masters level graduate female students pursuing degrees in engineering or computer science. In addition, 5 recipients were selected and paid from endowed scholarship accounts managed separately by the Society of Women Engineers Board of Trustees organization. Recognized their achievement virtually in social media, awarding the monies in the next fiscal year as they begin or continue college programs. Program service expenses includes the dollars paid for scholarships plus program expenses.
$20,000 spentof which $17,975 as grants31% of program spendingGet Science, Engineering, and Technology (GetSET). Summer week program at local university campus with a live-in dorm experience, engineering and computer science classes, workshops on college preparation steps, and industry tours for 90 young women from groups underrepresented in engineering and computer science (Latina, African-American, Native American, and Pacific Islander) for four years (entering 9th to 12th grade). Other support programs several times during the year.
$43,891 spentof which $50,091 as grants68% of program spendingMember Services. Professional development and social events, online and in person, available to all of our 400 members, with various attendance for different events.
$602 spentof which $536 as grants1% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $64,493.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $186k to $153k (−18%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $21k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 72% 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 SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS’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
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 93% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 68% · 2023 53% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS'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 $69k that is directly attributable, 100% 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. $181k 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.
Organizations like SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS
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.
Public support
97%
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 SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: 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 SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS?
- SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $249,703 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($140,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 72% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $249,703 in grants to SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $140,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS 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 7 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing