California · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES (California) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,668,030 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($436,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,002 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,002 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbarashared funderslocal
- Womens Funding Networkportfolio match
- Aditi Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 26% · 2018 10% · 2019 24% · 2020 42% · 2021 42% · 2022 60% · 2023 61% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $210k → $659k.
15 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 ECONOMIC VENTURES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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'S ECONOMIC VENTURES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 9% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
51% 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 ECONOMIC VENTURES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 25% · 2021 34% · 2022 22% · 2023 19% — 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
60% of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES'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
67% of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 62 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- St Francis Foundation of Santa Barbarashared funderslocalCA · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 42 organizations near you
- Womens Funding Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aditi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Women's Business Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Channel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wbd Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Great Rivers Community Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nasdaq Educational Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Reinvestment Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- James S Bower Foundationshared funderslocalCA · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · funds 77 organizations near you
- June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust JS Poucher KL Englert & CM Cooney Co-Trshared funderslocalCA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 70 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Small Business Administration$2.4M
- Department of the Treasury$1.2M
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 ECONOMIC VENTURES
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Wev Funding Solutions · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES?
- WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES (California) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,668,030 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($436,500). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $4,668,030 in grants to WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $436,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 62funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing