California · Nonprofit
STELLA FOUNDATION
STELLA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $526,305 to it, the largest being THE IMPACT SEAT FOUNDATION CORP ($235,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $526k
- Net assets
- $98k
What Stella Foundation does
Mission
Stellas mission is to inspire, equip, and propel diverse female founders to successfully launch, grow, and sustain their businesses while cultivating a thriving network of investors to increase equality for women-led startups.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Womens venture summit is an annnual event in its eleventh year. The goals of the conference are to boost female founders access to capital and to grow the number of female investors who invest in female-led startups. Founders and funders get to meet women from across the globe in a vibrant and intimate virtual setting to learn about and explore opportunities for increase funding and collaboration.
$137,319 spent$198,157 earned by the program44% of program spendingG&a
$94,264 spent$206,286 earned by the program30% of program spendingCommunity- our community of over 5,000 people who believe in equality for fmale founders. In 2020, we began building a tech-enablement to our services in order to reach people all over the world. Our digital community is free of charge and provides access to pre-recorded video courses, one-onone advisory sessions, group sessions, mentorship matching, and features on setllas media. The digital stella community provides master classes in seven core areas with 59 modules with pre and post-assessment to track knowledge and behavior changes, masterclasses are available for both entrepreneurs and investors. Join our stell community to view all of our courses and events.
$76,754 spent$186,329 earned by the program25% of program spendingStella angels- angels is our exclusive netowork of accredited investors. These angel investors review deals together, conduct due diligence, and invest in female founders sourced through our network. In 2021 stella angels invested in 14 female-led startups, syndicating over $1.3m via direct investments and inderectly via syndications and crowdfunding.
$2,773 spent1% of program spendingFundraising
$944 spent0% of program spendingLabs- all stella community members are encouraged to apply to our intensive and specialized cohort-based learning communities to tap into our network of professionals, serial entrepreneurs, and investors with deep functional expertise across indistries. While the strengths of our network trend toward life sciences and deep tech, we are positioned to serve all industries. Stella targets 50-75 high-performance woement to serve each year through hih-touch consulting and advisory programs.
$558 spent$34,990 earned by the program0% of program spendingWomens fast pitch- womens fast pitch is a series of five regional access-to-capital events taking place across america. Finalists advance to compete at the womens venture summit for $10k investment. Womens fast pitch targets 150 applicants to fill 25 spots (5 pitching founders in each of the 5 regions) and also includes 20 investor judges to ask questions and provide commentary during this live streamed virtual series of events.
$228 spent$13,000 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $312,840.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $49k to $99k (+102%).
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: 2023 7% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of STELLA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 3 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
Flossie Hall
CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $12k → $143k.
4 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 STELLA FOUNDATION’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
STELLA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% 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 STELLA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 83% · 2023 70% — 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
54% of STELLA FOUNDATION'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 $242k that is directly attributable, 97% of it comes from funders outside California, across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $284k 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
STELLA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like STELLA FOUNDATION
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
53% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
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 STELLA FOUNDATION: 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 STELLA FOUNDATION?
- STELLA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $526,305 to it, the largest being THE IMPACT SEAT FOUNDATION CORP ($235,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STELLA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $526,305 in grants to STELLA FOUNDATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STELLA FOUNDATION?
- THE IMPACT SEAT FOUNDATION CORP is the largest funder on record, with $235,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STELLA FOUNDATION 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 6 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