California · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK
WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,263,360 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($900,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $484k
- Funders on record
- 29
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $342k
What Women's Center for Creative Work does
Mission
Feminist center for creative work nurtures an ever-evolving, intersectional, intergenerational, and joyful collaborative feminist praxis-modeling ways of working and living through art, programming, media, publishing, and the redistribution of resources, from los angeles, within the world.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Community partner programs: we partner with local artists, educators, advocacy groups, arts nonprofits, and other thought leaders to create meaningful experiences on site and online-ranging from hands-on workshops, live performances, and film screenings to panels, reading groups, and symposia. This includes ongoing initiatives such as hard skills for hard times, skillshares to support professional development for creatives; and feminist synth lab, a synth lending library and workshop series for marginalized genders in la to learn hardware/software tools and techniques for (electronic) music production, and make music together. Admission is always free or low cost.
$358,794 spent$2,836 earned by the program53% of program spendingCo-conspirator press: as the publishing arm of fccw, coconspirator press centers the work of artists, writers, designers, printers, social justice workers, and editors from historically underrepresented communities who use their voice to address feminist issues. We work directly with the authors to develop and edit their work; design, print, and produce their book; and promote and distribute the final product. We produce 1-2 new books per year and have distributed over 17,000 publications to date. Our newest publication, launched in december 2025 is transchool vol 2, a partnership with allies in arts to support the work of young (18-24 years old) trans writers.
$112,058 spent$45,438 earned by the program17% of program spendingExhibitions: rotating summer exhibitions, varied group shows with programming.
$102,912 spent15% of program spendingArtist in residence: a multidisciplinary program that presents new work by women, trans, and nonbinary artists. As part of a three-month residency within the organization, we provide artists with studio space, structural and material support, and dedicated time with all fccw staff. Residencies culminate in an exhibition (or other presentation format), publication, and series of public programs that shed light on their creative practice. We host two (2) per year. This is a unique opportunity, particularly for early-career artists, who are able to be mentored by and work one-on-one with a team who brings a collective 50+ years experience in the art world, education environments, literature/publishing, and community activism.
$100,791 spentof which $48,675 as grants15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $674,555.
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 2024 to 2025, from $779k to $357k (−54%).
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: 2020 32% · 2021 41% · 2022 5% · 2023 11% · 2024 3% · 2025 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% 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
Sarah Williams
Executive director
Board chair
Aandrea Stang
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 5 funders, grant income fell $77k → $34k.
7 of 29 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK’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'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 40% 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
30% 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'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 62% · 2018 38% · 2019 68% · 2020 18% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 46% — 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.
How long its funders stay
39% of WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $617k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK's revenue grew 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $20k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$20k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK
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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK?
- WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK (California) receives grants from 29 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,263,360 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($900,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK have?
- IRS filings report 29 organizations giving $2,263,360 in grants to WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S CENTER FOR CREATIVE WORK 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 29 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