California · Nonprofit
Womens Voices Now Inc
Womens Voices Now Inc (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,714 to it, the largest being RCS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($206,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $516k
- Funders on record
- 26
- Grants received
- $757k
- Net assets
- $154k
What Womens Voices Now Inc does
Mission
Use film to drive postive social change that advances girls and women's rights globally.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Film festival - our annual womens voices now film festival is an international womens rights documentary film festival that seeks to address the lack of authentic representation of women in film. Since 2011 we have received 1,500 film submissions from 105 countries. Awarded $156,500 in cash prizes. Gathered online audience members from 195+ countries. As of 2025 we actively work with over 400 filmmakers, nurturing a community of filmmakers.
$228,724 spent$96,348 earned by the program59% of program spendingGirls voices now - a youth development program empowering the next generation of youth from under-resourced communities to find, develop and use their voice for social change through filmmaking. As of 2025 we serve 116 girls from under-resourced communities in los angeles. The program has produced 31 youth-made short films which have been selected and awarded in 166 film festivals and seen by 4.5 million viewers. Our youth made films have been nominated, once for a daytime emmy (2021), and once for a childrens & family entertainment emmy (2024), and won the daytime emmy in 2021.
$100,860 spent$3,140 earned by the program26% of program spendingFilm collection - a free online film collection, voices for change, raises awareness of the struggles and triumphs of women and girls around the globe. The collection provides a platform for authentic and diverse stories about women and girls, that benefit all. Each film in the living, growin collection includes calls to action and additional educational resources for viewers. Voices for change includes 360+ films from 98 countries in 73 different languages. In 2025alone, we attracted over 13.5 million online viewers. We also were able to offer our second paid film collection internship.
$38,387 spent$60 earned by the program10% of program spendingArtist-in-Residence - The Artist-in-Residence program is a collaborative initiative hosting one guest filmmaker to contribute to the curating of the Women's Voices Now Voices for change film collection program, expand the network and outreach of WVN film festival, and for the filmmaking to explore opportunities in the Los Angeles area to further their personal artistic projects.
$16,693 spent4% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $384,664.
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 $116k to $171k (+48%).
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 0% · 2021 20% · 2022 26% · 2023 26% · 2024 21% · 2025 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
81% of Womens Voices Now Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% 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
Gina Brourman-Sacks
Board Chair,CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $30k → $138k.
3 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 Voices Now Inc’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
Womens Voices Now Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
26% 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 Voices Now Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 36% · 2019 40% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 26% · 2023 29% — 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 Womens Voices Now Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
78% of Womens Voices Now Inc's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 Voices Now Inc has grown faster than half of the 2,673 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding Womens Voices Now Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$50k
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 Voices Now Inc
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Womens Voices Now Inc: 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 Voices Now Inc?
- Womens Voices Now Inc (California) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $756,714 to it, the largest being RCS FAMILY FOUNDATION ($206,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Womens Voices Now Inc have?
- IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $756,714 in grants to Womens Voices Now Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Womens Voices Now Inc?
- RCS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $206,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Womens Voices Now Inc 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 26 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing