California · Nonprofit
WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK
WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,730 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($38,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $170k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $133k
- Net assets
- $147k
What Women Founders Network does
Mission
Women Founders Network is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that provides education on entrepreneurship and investing to women and girls.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, we continued and expanded our educational programming for high school girls, college women and female entrepreneurs.next generation investorsthe junior venture capitalist (jr. Vc) program (formerly known as the junior judge program) for high school girls had 7 virtual meetings with women business leaders to learn about entrepreneurship, leadership, venture capital and career opportunities. Girls also participated in a facilitated review of the Women Founders Network fast pitch finalist companies with a seasoned investor and attended an in-person practice pitch event. The jr. Vc program culminated in the girls attending the annual Women Founders Network fast pitch event at ucla in los angeles. The girls watched the pitches, asked follow-up questions of the founders, then deliberated to select their winner and presented a sponsored cash prize. We increased the participant number from 65 in-person students last year to 83 students in 2025, and increased the virtual jr. Vc program for non-local students from 27 participants last year to 38 students this year. For the fifth year, we had our due diligence analyst program for university women (formerly known as wff fellows…
$86,759 spentof which $55,000 as grants$70,545 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $86,759.
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 2022 to 2023, from $20k to $75k (+273%).
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.
58% of WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Darya Allen-Attar
CEO & co-founder
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $5k → $27k.
2 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% 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 FOUNDERS NETWORK’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
WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 74%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 FOUNDERS NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 48% · 2020 100% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 2023 63% — 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.
Where its funders are
WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $56k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 FOUNDERS NETWORK has grown faster than three-quarters of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN FOUNDERS 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
63% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 WOMEN FOUNDERS 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 FOUNDERS NETWORK?
- WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $132,730 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($38,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $132,730 in grants to WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN FOUNDERS NETWORK?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $38,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN FOUNDERS 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.
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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 7 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