California · Nonprofit
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,754,455 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,564,786). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.1M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $6.8M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Step Up Women's Network does
Mission
At step up, we offer in person after school and virtual summer mentoring programs for high school girls. In addition, we offer year round virtual mentoring programs for young women ages 18-29. (see schedule o)all girls and young women who participate in our programs come from communities with limitied resources or are facing systemic barriers. With the support of our programs and the mentoring connections we provide, they become confident, connected and career ready so that they can join the next generation of women leaders. 100% of step up participants have access to multiple mentors.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Teen programs: step up supports high school girls and those who identify with girlhood ages 14-18 through an evidenced based twelve-week afterschool program. The program offers specialized career exploration programming and leverages a social emotional learning lens to help girls explore career interests, gain exposure to various industries and begin to build a career path. During the summer, step up also offers three weeks of powerful career prep in conjunction with step up corporate partners who host career connected and experential learning opportunities. As a result of their particpation in step up, 83% reported increased career-readiness, 81% reported increased connectedness, and 78% of young adults reported increased confidence.
$1,305,848 spent46% of program spendingYoung adult programs: step up supports young women and those who identfy with womanhood ages 18-29 as they transition from high school and navigate their post secondary pursuits. We focus on helping them to further hone the skills they will need to be successful in the classroom, in the workforce, and in their communities. The mentoring model pairs young women with professional mentors for structured individualized career coaching, offered mentor supported skill building workshops and provided career focused flash mentoring. As a result of their particpation in step up, 100% reported increased career-readiness, 97% of young adults reported increased confidence, and 86% reported increased connectedness.
$728,284 spent25% of program spendingCommunity engagement: step up's community engagement program develops and fosters sustained strategic collaborations that are both local and national in reach. They ensure successful engagement of external partners such as schools, community based organizations, and community leaders. In the coming years, step up's community engagement program will seek to engage more stakeholders and constituents across the country while deepening our impact in local communities where we live and serve. During the 25-26 school year, step up partnered with 35 schools and leveraged 43 trained professionals to deliver our school based programs
$458,182 spent16% of program spendingMember programs: step up is able to deliver a high level of social-emotional support, career preparation, and mentorship through its network of highly engaged mentors. Step up ur member programs help the organization recruit new community members who will leverage their resources on behalf of step up girls. Fueled with this additional people power, step up ensures all girls are on the pathway to achieve high school and post-secondary success and have the access to information, opportunities, and resources that will help them pursue and achieve their unique dreams of success. In 2025, more than 600 step up mentors representing a variety of industries and backgrounds brought a depth and diversity of experience and expertise to step up girls across the country.
$366,145 spent13% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,858,459.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.9M to $3.6M (+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: 2020 17% · 2021 9% · 2023 5% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
106% of STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% 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.
Chief executive
Delores Morton
CEO
Board chair
Andrya Smith
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $445k → $1.0M.
20 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% 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
70% 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 STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 32% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 19% · 2022 34% · 2023 41% — 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
31% of STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK is better cushioned than half of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Corporation for National and Community Service$1.1M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK
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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
88%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK: 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 STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK?
- STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK (California) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,754,455 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,564,786). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $6,754,455 in grants to STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,564,786 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEP UP WOMEN'S NETWORK 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 87 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