California · Nonprofit
Strong Advocates
Strong Advocates (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($48). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2022
- $8k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $48
- Net assets
- $-35827
What Strong Advocates does
Mission
Strong Advocates empowers Los Angeles workers who have been sexually harassed or discriminated against by their employers. We provide legal advice, assistance and advocacy. This includes free legal analysis of workers' cases, assistance with identifying community resources to assist them with their case and access to other government benefits, and know-your-rights resources and trainings.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Project REPRESENT: Provided assistance to those in need through convening strong legal teams and bringing lawsuits against their offending employers. Assisted employment attorneys with legal representation on behalf of victims of disability discrimination who had been terminated after requesting accommodations for their disabilities. Provided legal assistance, research, and investigation on a pro bono basis.
$3,070 spent78% of program spendingProject KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Created a resource webpage to serve as a hub for workers to learn more about their legal rights and to access needed resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. Created know-your-rights publications to assist victims of sexual harassment or assault to recognize potential retaliation during the pandemic. Created know-your-rights videos for victims of sexual assault and discrimination at the work place.
$142 spent4% of program spendingProject INVESTIGATE: Assisted with investigating key corporate decisionmakers who had ordered the termination of employees because of their disabilities and requests for accommodation.
$503 spent13% of program spendingProject Connect:
$210 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $3,925.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2019 to 2020, from $4k to $140k (+3264%).
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.
0% of Strong Advocates’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Betsy Havens
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $26 → $22.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 Strong Advocates’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Strong Advocates'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $48 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Strong Advocates's revenue fell 80% between 2019 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,550 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
13%
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 Strong Advocates: 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 Strong Advocates?
- Strong Advocates (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $48 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($48). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Strong Advocates have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $48 in grants to Strong Advocates, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Strong Advocates?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $48 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Strong Advocates 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 FY2022 (financials across 2019–2022), and the filings of 1 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