California · Nonprofit
Womens Audio Mission
Womens Audio Mission (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,776,790 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,610,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 64
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $7.6M
What Womens Audio Mission does
Mission
Wam is dedicated to the advancement of women in creative technology & digital media production. Wam believes that womens participation in this field will expand the voice of music and media, ensuring womens points of view are conveyed throughout our culture and society.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Girls on the Mic: Music/Media Production Training for Middle/High School Girls (GOTM) GOTM uses music and media tech to connect under-resourced Bay Area girls/gender expansive youth to free weekly after-school audio training. Students learn how to use technology to amplify their voices and stories by creating their own podcasts, radio shows, music projects, soundtracks and more. WAM has partnered with 50 schools/organizations across three cities for year-round programming. In 2025, GOTM delivered 15 weekly workshops year-round that reached 2,197 girls through 29 partner sites. WAM Academy Certification Training WAM Academy equips under-resourced young women each year with hands-on, job-specific audio engineering and technology skills, critical industry certifications (Avid Pro Tools, Dolby Atmos Spatial Audio, and Dante IT), and in-depth career exploration across the prfessional audio sectors. Taught by Women industry professionals, the curriculum includes pro audio production workflow and operations in live sound and recording studio environments. In 2025 WAM academy served 656 women and gender-expansive people. Paid Internship and Job Placement Program WAM Recruits six (6)…
$1,678,102 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,678,102.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.4M to $5.0M (+49%).
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: 2021 8% · 2024 18% · 2025 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of Womens Audio Mission’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Terri Winston
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $312k → $1.2M.
17 of 64 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 Womens Audio Mission’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 64 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
Womens Audio Mission has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
61% 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 Womens Audio Mission.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 22% · 2019 22% · 2020 16% · 2021 61% · 2022 31% · 2023 43% — growing more concentrated.
“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
50% of Womens Audio Mission's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
57% of Womens Audio Mission'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 $3.4M that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.4M 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.
Against its field
Womens Audio Mission holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,012 employment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,012 employment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Womens Audio Mission receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $530k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$530k
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 Womens Audio Mission
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 Womens Audio Mission: 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 Womens Audio Mission?
- Womens Audio Mission (California) receives grants from 64 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,776,790 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($1,610,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Womens Audio Mission have?
- IRS filings report 64 organizations giving $7,776,790 in grants to Womens Audio Mission, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Womens Audio Mission?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,610,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Womens Audio Mission 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 64 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