Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
UltraViolet Education Fund
UltraViolet Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,207,050 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($4,415,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 58
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $2.7M
What UltraViolet Education Fund does
Mission
UltraViolet Education Fund (uvef) is a 501c3 organization. Ultraviolet is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. Ultraviolet drives feministcultural and policy change by exposing the white supremacist patriarchy and creating the conditions for a more just and equitable world for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Uvef leads longterm culture and policy change by unifying millions of people to shine a spotlight on the urgent issues such as misogynist and racist disinformation, corporate accountability for anti-women policies, and policy education and advocacy to address economic and health injustices impacting women. We work to hold the media, corporations, boards of directors, and influential people accountable to all women. Through a combination of online and on-the-ground strategies, along with high-profile media strategies such as tv ads, we call out those spreading and enabling disinformation, and demand institutional policy changes to eliminate the spread of disinformation, and to create policies that benefit all women. We offer resources in the form of toolkits, webinars, media, community, and accessible data, for more women to lead, organize, and advocate for change in their communities. Through our robust digital tools and campaign strategy, we have exposed the often hidden epidemic of gender-based violence and created a standard for believing survivors; protected access to affordable, comprehensive health care; advocated for economic justice for black women, indigenous women, women…
$2,326,952 spentof which $7,828 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,326,952.
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 2017 to 2018, from $2.8M to $1.1M (−60%).
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: 2021 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of UltraViolet Education Fund’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Jenifer Fernandez Ancona
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $1.6M → $2.5M.
14 of 58 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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: $100k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest UltraViolet Action). These are real filings, and they are not money UltraViolet Education Fund raised.
From the IRS filings of UltraViolet Education Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 58 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
UltraViolet Education Fund has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 41% · 2020 15% · 2021 16% · 2022 17% · 2023 27% — 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
60% of UltraViolet Education Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
UltraViolet Education Fund draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 17 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
UltraViolet Education Fund is better cushioned than half of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like UltraViolet Education Fund
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
49%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 28 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Ultraviolet Action · exempt
- Ultraviolet PAC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UltraViolet Education Fund: 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 UltraViolet Education Fund?
- UltraViolet Education Fund (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 58 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,207,050 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($4,415,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UltraViolet Education Fund have?
- IRS filings report 58 organizations giving $18,207,050 in grants to UltraViolet Education Fund, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UltraViolet Education Fund?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UltraViolet Education Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 58 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