Virginia · Nonprofit
STEM for Her Foundation
STEM for Her Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,596 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($190,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $573k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $920k
- Net assets
- $315k
What STEM for Her Foundation does
Mission
To promote education and to create awareness, excitement, and opportunities among girls and young women to launch successful stem-related careers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
STEM for Her Day is a hands-on, experimental, conference-style day of all things-STEM for 300 local high school female students. Students are exposed to industry professionals, specific career opportunities, and future paths through programming, discussions, competitions, networking and more.
$232,564 spent46% of program spendingGeneral and Other Programs - This includes programs such as the mentor program that gives students the opportunity to learn from mentors in an aligned stem field in one-on-one sessions, small group meetings, and larger workshops designed to help them develop critical professional skills and brainstorming about how to achieve career path goals post-graduation. In addition, we support programs that allows students to be exposed to the stem related field by either bringing programing to schools or facilitates young girls to have other hands-on experience on the stem related topics. Other Programs: Student Advisory Council (SAC) The Student Advisory Council includes high school students who serve as ambassadors, peer leaders, and youth advisors for STEM for Her. Members help guide programming, promote opportunities in their schools, and support key events throughout the year. Exploring Biosciences Opportunities A hands-on STEM for Her workshops that introduces high school students to the world of biotechnology, medicine, and pharmaceutical innovation. Students engage in lab-based simulations, career pathway discussions, and mentorship with professionals in the field. Washington…
$186,090 spent37% of program spendingScholarships - STEM for Her provides scholarships for young women interested in pursuing careers in stem for college or enrichment programs in STEM-related careers, for up to $5,000 per student.
$88,250 spentof which $88,250 as grants17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $506,904.
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 2018 to 2019, from $112k to $310k (+177%).
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.
122% of STEM for Her Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (83% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 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
Jennifer Fortney
Executive Director
Board chair
Jaye Campbell
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $14k → $214k.
11 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $58k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Women in Technology). These are real filings, and they are not money STEM for Her Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of STEM for Her 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
STEM for Her Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
94% 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 STEM for Her Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 99% · 2019 88% · 2020 85% · 2021 57% · 2022 22% · 2023 23% — 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
25% of STEM for Her Foundation'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
60% of STEM for Her 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 $369k that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Virginia, across 11 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $551k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
STEM for Her Foundation has grown faster than half of the 3,482 youth development nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,482 youth development nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like STEM for Her 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEM for Her 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 STEM for Her Foundation?
- STEM for Her Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $919,596 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($190,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does STEM for Her Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $919,596 in grants to STEM for Her Foundation, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEM for Her Foundation?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $190,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEM for Her Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing