California · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,915,749 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($820,938). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.1M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Women's Empowerment does
Mission
The mission of Women's Empowerment is to educate and empower women who are homeless with the skills and the confidence necessary to get a job, create a healthy lifestyle, and regain a home for themselves and their children.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2025, we provided wrap-around services to 745 unduplicated women and their children. (576 women and 169 children) each woman begins with our comprehensive nine-week employment readiness and empowerment program. She receives transportation assistance so she can successfully arrive every day on time, and childcare for her children ages 0-5 in our on-site child development center. She works one-on-one with her social worker, employment specialist, housing specialist, and volunteer career mentor while attending classes on job readiness, financial capabilities, and computer skills, many taught by our over 500 skilled community volunteers. She may also attend our afternoon groups on cooking and nutrition, parenting, wellness and recovery, and domestic violence. She can also work out weekly at the gym across the street.
$1,879,117 spent100% of program spendingIn 2025, 174 women secured employment, paid training, or enrolled in higher education. Our employment training partnerships are in the fields of property management, solar energy, manufacturing, healthcare, culinary arts, and security. These fields offer more than a job. They provide a career pathway with upward mobility, benefits, and the possibility of earning a wage that will allow graduates and their children to secure a safe place to live.
In 2025, 111 graduates secured stable housing with the support of Women's Empowerment. To ensure women in our program are competitive housing applicants, our students receive training in the nationally recognized housing readiness program "ready to rent." the training includes learning about their rights and responsibilities as residents, including understanding what landlords expect and the basics of landlord-tenant law. They receive their credit report and learn how to boost their credit and budget with the income they have.
In response to the housing crisis in sacramento, Women's Empowerment created trellis gardens, our transitional workforce housing program for graduates with minor children who have secured a job but still can't afford market rate housing. In 2025, 25 moms and their 52 children leased these cottages for up to 18 months. This buoys their success and allows them to continue that trajectory, building their credit, beginning a savings account, putting down roots in their jobs, and eventually securing a promotion that allows them to qualify for market-rate housing. This program provides the critical steppingstone they need to reclaim their lives and futures, empowering them to define themselves by who they are and what they contribute to their community rather than by their lack of housing.
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,879,117.
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 2022 to 2023, from $1.8M to $2.9M (+59%).
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 13% · 2021 9% · 2025 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lisa Culp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose $280k → $498k.
16 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 EMPOWERMENT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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 EMPOWERMENT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
65% 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 EMPOWERMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 39% · 2019 20% · 2020 28% · 2021 31% · 2022 28% · 2023 17% — 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
57% of WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
50% of WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT'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 $1.9M that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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 EMPOWERMENT has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
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'S EMPOWERMENT: 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'S EMPOWERMENT?
- WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT (California) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,915,749 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($820,938). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $3,915,749 in grants to WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $820,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT 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 61 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