California · Nonprofit
V-Day
V-Day (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,295,929 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($12,351,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $841k
- Funders on record
- 48
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $7.4M
What V-Day does
Mission
To end violence against all women, gender-expansive people, girls, and the Earth.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
V-Day develops new artistic works, films, and campaigns that inspire new ways of thinking and acting and supports grassroots activists, groups, and projects on the ground, including a safe house in Kenya for women and girls escaping female genital mutilation; educational and anti-violence advocacy programs; and more.
$2,156,394 spentof which $586,118 as grants56% of program spendingCity of Joy and V-World Farm/Democratic Republic of Congo: City of Joy program supports a transformational leadership center for women survivors of gender violence in Bukavu, DRC that provides women participants with training and trauma therapy to build their lives towards those of service and activism. V-World Farm is a sustainable farm located south of Bukavu where women from the City of Joy train in sustainable farming practices and many work following their graduation from the City of Joy.
$1,038,034 spent$9,935 earned by the program27% of program spendingOne Billion Rising: One Billion Rising program carries out a global arts-based campaign to raise awareness about the prevalence of gender based violence around the world that galvanized grassroots activists in over 200 countries.
$623,298 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,817,726.
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 2019 to 2020, from $6.4M to $13M (+105%).
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 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of V-Day’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% 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
Susan Celia Swan
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $139k → $9.5M.
16 of 48 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 81% 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: $6.0M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Novo Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money V-Day raised.
From the IRS filings of V-Day’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 48 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
V-Day leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 V-Day.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 75% · 2019 80% · 2020 21% · 2021 18% · 2022 21% · 2023 95% — growing more concentrated.
“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
37% of V-Day'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
81% of V-Day'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 $3.1M that is directly attributable, 59% of it comes from funders outside California, across 10 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13M 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
V-Day holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like V-Day
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 V-Day: 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 V-Day?
- V-Day (California) receives grants from 48 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,295,929 to it, the largest being TIDES FOUNDATION ($12,351,000). 24 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 81% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does V-Day have?
- IRS filings report 48 organizations giving $16,295,929 in grants to V-Day, 24 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of V-Day?
- TIDES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,351,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like V-Day 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.
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 48 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