California · Nonprofit
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK (California) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,259,311 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($22,060,000). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $20M
- Funders on record
- 113
- Grants received
- $62M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Women Donors Network does
Mission
Women Donors Network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Grantmaking: wdn funded 142 organizations and projects through its grantmaking program in 2024. The organization's grantmaking included funding through several initiatives called impact collectives, which are designed to enable the organization's donors to learn and fund collaboratively in several overarching strategic areas, including a safe and sustainable future, participation and representation, and opportunity and equality. Wdn also continued grantmaking through the abc fund, which seeks to advance reproductive justice and ensure enduring legal access to abortion care in the us. Finally, the organization made rapid response grants to provide aid to communities facing urgent needs.
$13,422,078 spentof which $12,725,000 as grants84% of program spendingEducational programs: wdn offered educational programs in person and online in 2024, including a learning series that explored the relationship between philanthropy, democracy, and capitalism; educational webinars on timely topics related to wdn's grantmaking strategies; study groups in several issue areas; and regional meetings where donors gathered for learning and networking opportunities. Wdn held its annual conference, "wdn connect: 2024," in denver, colorado, with 140 attendees who gathered to hear from visionary movement leaders, learn from each other, and build community.
$1,368,186 spent$325,185 earned by the program9% of program spendingReflective democracy campaign: the campaign continued to work toward a democracy where all of us are reflected in the halls of power, by investigating and illuminating the demographics of elected officials and candidates in the united states and making this data available to the public through its website and reports. During 2024, the campaign made $243,675 in grants to 2 organizations that are conducting demographic research and working to preserve democratic institutions and democracy.
$1,174,818 spentof which $243,675 as grants7% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $15,965,082.
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 $3.7M to $12M (+218%).
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.
97% of WOMEN DONORS NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (80% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Leena Barakat
President & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 44 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $11M.
49 of 113 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 85% 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 WOMEN DONORS NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 35% 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
85% 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 WOMEN DONORS NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 49% · 2020 42% · 2021 49% · 2022 36% · 2023 27% — 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
65% of WOMEN DONORS NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 76% 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
85% of WOMEN DONORS NETWORK'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 $9.4M that is directly attributable, 76% of it comes from funders outside California, across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $53M arriving through sponsors registered in 20 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
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 828 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 828 philanthropy nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 6 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN DONORS NETWORK: 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 WOMEN DONORS NETWORK?
- WOMEN DONORS NETWORK (California) receives grants from 113 organizations whose IRS filings report $62,259,311 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($22,060,000). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOMEN DONORS NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 113 organizations giving $62,259,311 in grants to WOMEN DONORS NETWORK, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN DONORS NETWORK?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $22,060,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN DONORS NETWORK 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 113 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