California · Nonprofit
Women of Color Roar Media
Women of Color Roar Media (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,190 to it, the largest being Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ($55,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $250k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $81k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Women of Color Roar Media does
Mission
The organizations primary purpose is to provide guidance and support for women of the African diaspora and to encourage young women to run for elected office choose a career in public service and rise to leadership positions in their community.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
WOMEN OF COLOR ROAR ANNUAL BREAKFAST is a San Diego annual event bringing together all racial and ethnic groups to honor women leaders in our community. Over 500 people attend of which 100 young high school and college-age women - Future Leaders are sponsored to attend as our special guests. This unique event provides young women with the opportunity to meet and connect with women in leadership and exposes them to great role models. The Women of Color Roar breakfast is a cultural exchange and transformative experience for all.
$51,709 spent41% of program spendingWOMEN OF COLOR ROAR Leadership Academy is a full-day workshop that educates prepares and provides life skills training job opportunities and resources to high school students from underserved communities. Two workshops were offered in the Spring and Fall.
$56,619 spent45% of program spendingWOMEN OF COLOR ROAR Leadership Academy Sacramento Trip - To witness their government in action during a visit to the California Assembly and State Senate floor sessions. Meet with their local representatives in their Sacramento offices and develop relationships for community involvement. Learn the legislative process of our state government. Experience lobbying and advocating for policies and bills that benefit their community.
$7,958 spent6% of program spendingConferences events and software to further our exempt purpose
$2,860 spent2% of program spendingBlack Women Give Fund - The purpose of this program is to provide small nonprofit organizations with similar missions with funds to cover expenses particularly during times of financial hardship in underserved communities
$6,500 spent5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $125,646.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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 2023 to 2024, from $24k to $82k (+233%).
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.
100% of Women of Color Roar Media’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 of Color Roar Media’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 of Color Roar Media leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 of Color Roar Media.
“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
100% of Women of Color Roar Media's grant income comes from California funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8k 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
Women of Color Roar Media has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,130 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,130 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like Women of Color Roar Media
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
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Women of Color Roar Media: 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 of Color Roar Media?
- Women of Color Roar Media (California) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $81,190 to it, the largest being Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties ($55,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Women of Color Roar Media have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $81,190 in grants to Women of Color Roar Media.
- Who is the largest funder of Women of Color Roar Media?
- Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties is the largest funder on record, with $55,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Women of Color Roar Media 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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