California · Nonprofit
VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,930,324 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,099,300). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $643k
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $219k
What Voice of Witness a Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation does
Mission
The organization's most significant activities comprise the following: 1) the vow book series: the creation and dissemination of titles in our oral history book series, which features personal narratives from people impacted by injustice and carefully researched appendices material; and, 2) the vow education program, which connects educators, students, and social justice advocates with important unheard stories and provides them with resources to help them conduct their own oral history projects. Key services include teacher trainings, student workshops and curricula and resource resource creation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Vow book fellowship/book series: training, editorial support, development, and production of editorial projects focused on refuge migration, democracy, and the automation of poverty. Development of storytelling incubator and beginning efforts to create differentiated mediums for narrative storytelling. Expenses include editor fees and stipends, travel & lodging, research, editing, and translation.
$263,633 spent$11,399 earned by the program43% of program spendingCommunity engagement and pr engagement with and dissemination of books and educational resources to impacted and invested communities and the general public. Development of formal community partnership program with dedicated in-person and virtual events in collaboration with community partners providing technical assistance, capacity building, elevation of narrators and oral storytelling in action.
$245,240 spent$3,551 earned by the program40% of program spendingEducation program: curriculum creation, teacher training and support to san francisco bay area educators and around the u.s. Expenses include education program staff, supplies, travel. Due to the conversion of much of our revenue from project- and program-based. Creation of digitized curricula on democracy and scaling of education advisory board.
$104,227 spent$65,507 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $613,100.
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 2018 to 2019, from $432k to $1.0M (+136%).
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 11% · 2022 17% · 2023 5% · 2024 6% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Natasha Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $101k → $388k.
8 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 56% · 2019 38% · 2020 32% · 2021 36% · 2022 44% · 2023 45% — 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
55% of VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
54% of VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION's funding base is broadening — from 5 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $80k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$80k
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 VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION
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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION: 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 VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
- VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,930,324 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,099,300). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $3,930,324 in grants to VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,099,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOICE OF WITNESS A NONPROFIT PUBLIC BENEFIT CORPORATION 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 30 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