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WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE

WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,186 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$335k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$50k
Net assets
$31k
1/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%
01What it does

What Women of Color Unite does

Mission

Focusing on fair access, fair treatment and fair pay for women of color in all aspects of the entertainment and media industries.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Fiscal sponsorship program: wocu-supported project fundraising for media projects whose goals and promoted messages were resonant with those of wocu. Wocu would receive funds contributed to a project, oversee the fund distribution, and take a 7 percent service fee as payment for all the work.

    $179,694 spent$31,029 earned by the program
    64% of program spending
  2. Soho events: wocu presented workshops - job seeking, safety, etc - for its membership to inform, protect, and increase their chances of finding new jobs at the soho events locations.

    $99,010 spent
    35% of program spending
  3. The jtc list: wocu created an on-line dynamic tool for membership that matches women of color available to work with those who do the hiring in the entertainment and media industries. On the database members can update their resumes, contract information, union status, rates, samples from their reels and other relevant information.

    $3,916 spent
    1% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $282,620.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($107k) Expenses 100 ($60k) Net assets 100 ($48k)2021 Revenue 94 ($100k) Expenses 186 ($112k) Net assets 77 ($37k)2022 Revenue 74 ($79k) Expenses 150 ($90k) Net assets 54 ($26k)2023 Revenue 103 ($111k) Expenses 223 ($134k) Net assets 6 ($3k)2024 Revenue 313 ($335k) Expenses 513 ($307k) Net assets 64 ($31k)
20202021202220232024
Revenue (313)Expenses (513)Net assets (64)Peer revenue range

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 $3k to $31k (+909%).

$48k
$37k
$26k
$3k
$31k
20202021202220232024
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

91% of WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$47k
’20
−$11k
’21
−$11k
’22
−$23k
’23
$28k
’24
1.2
months of
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

Cheryl L Bedford

Executive director/founder

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $10k → $34k.

2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 51% 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 UNITE’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 UNITE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

71% 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 UNITE.

50%
largest funder
88%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 96% · 2022 94% · 2023 73% — 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

51% of WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE'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 $24k that is directly attributable, 79% of it comes from California funders.

MN
CA
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve1.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)33% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,936 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE

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

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members
88%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

55%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE?
WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,186 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 51% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $50,186 in grants to WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMEN OF COLOR UNITE 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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