California · Nonprofit
Wise Choices for Girls
Wise Choices for Girls (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,000 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($68,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $213k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $113k
- Net assets
- $124k
What Wise Choices for Girls does
Mission
Wise Choices For Girls has developed upwardly mobile leaders who began as young girls in elementary and middle school and have continued through high school, college and graduate school.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wise Choices For Girls has been in existence for over 15 years and became a 510(c)(3) nonprofit organization several years ago. Over this time, we have developed upwardly mobile leaders who began as young girls in elementary and middle school and have continued through high school, college, and even graduate school. Throughout this journey, older girls in this group have mentored younger members through tutoring, academic support, and life skill development. Our succcess rate is strong - 98% of Wise Choices girls attend college. Most of our participants come from low-income families and live in public housing, but through Wise Choices they have learned to move forward positively even when the odds are against them. We have proven that with discipline, caring and support, anything is possible. Peer mentorship and community sisterhood are central to our work. With the guidance of older members and certified counselors, participants gain mentorship, leadership skills, and empowerment to pursue education and success.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 Wise Choices for Girls’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
Wise Choices for Girls leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
60% 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 Wise Choices for Girls.
“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.
Where its funders are
60% of Wise Choices for Girls'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 $45k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $68k 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
Wise Choices for Girls runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,812 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,812 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Wise Choices for Girls
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 Wise Choices for Girls: 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 Wise Choices for Girls?
- Wise Choices for Girls (California) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $113,000 to it, the largest being MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($68,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Wise Choices for Girls have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $113,000 in grants to Wise Choices for Girls, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Wise Choices for Girls?
- MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $68,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Wise Choices for Girls 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 2 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