California · Nonprofit
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
WOMEN HELPING WOMEN (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,710 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ($188,344). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $211
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $0
What Women Helping Women does
Mission
The mission of whw is to provide theunemployed and the underemployed with the skills and resources they need to getand keep a good job.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Employment success programemployment success program is a comprehensive employment readiness program thatprovides professional business clothing, image consulting, educational workshops,employment readiness services, computer training and transportation to achieve themission of providing the unemployed and the underemployed with the skills andresources they need to get and keep a good job.
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.1M to $166k (−85%).
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: 2017 25% · 2018 25%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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.
Board chair
Pauline Francis
Chairman
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $182k → $25.
10 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 HELPING WOMEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 28 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 HELPING WOMEN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
75% 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 HELPING WOMEN.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 21% · 2019 32% · 2020 27% · 2021 29% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
27% of WOMEN HELPING WOMEN'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 WOMEN HELPING WOMEN's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $517k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like WOMEN HELPING WOMEN
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.
Public support
79%
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 HELPING WOMEN: 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 HELPING WOMEN?
- WOMEN HELPING WOMEN (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,070,710 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ($188,344). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN HELPING WOMEN have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $1,070,710 in grants to WOMEN HELPING WOMEN, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN HELPING WOMEN?
- ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $188,344 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN HELPING WOMEN 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 28 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