California · Nonprofit
Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives
Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being PALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $808k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $686k
What Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives does
Mission
The mission of Support for Harbor Area Women's Lives (SHAWL) is to provide addicted women with support and services to enable them to remain clean and sober and become productive members of society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Operation of a transitional housing program, primarily for graduates of the residential recovery program. Residents pay low rent housing for as long as 24 months while continuing their recovery. In this program, residents are able to live in a drug and alcohol free, violence free home while in school and/or employed. The sober-living participants receive individual counseling as needed. In addition, planning for on-going self-sufficiency and permanent housing options are explored with permanent housing being the primary goal.
$385,179 spent$49,994 earned by the program55% of program spendingThe purpose of this program is to enhance substance use disorder treatment, behavioral health, and HIV/AIDS services for high risk women of African American/Black, Hispanic/Latina, and other racial/ethnic minority groups (ages 18 years and older), including heterosexual, LBTQ, previously incarcerated women, and their significant others, who have substance use or co-occurring substance use and mental disorders and are living with or at risk for HIV/AIDS. The mission is to increase access to treatment, reduce HIV infection and transmission rates, address impact of violence and trauma on womens increased risk of SUD and HIV infection and educate and empower the women to make informed decisions about their behavioral health. Program consists of intensive case management, individual counseling, and support services.
$164,745 spent24% of program spendingOperation of a residential recovery program for homeless/addicted women, majority with co-occurring mental health problems, survivors of domestic violence. SHAWL provides services including shelter, food, counseling & case management in a supervised living environment. The mission is to provide women with life tools, support & services to become productive members of the community, achieve emotional and economic self-sufficiency, secure & maintain residential stability, and for certain residents, regain custody or reunite with their children. Program consists of intensive case management, individual counseling, and supporting services, including guided medication, exercise, daily AA or NA meetings, as well as 26 weekly group meetings.
$144,095 spent21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $694,019.
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 $761k to $1.3M (+70%).
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: 2017 55% · 2019 84% · 2020 85% · 2021 77% · 2022 44% · 2023 87% · 2024 65% · 2025 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Laurie Whalen-Martinez
Exec Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives’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 Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives's revenue grew 33% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 850 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives
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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Volunteers of America of Los Angeles · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives: 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 Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives?
- Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being PALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB ($50,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives?
- PALOS VERDES JUNIOR WOMEN'S CLUB is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Support for Harbor Area Womens Lives 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 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