California · Nonprofit
YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER
YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER (California) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,651,218 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($7,065,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 90
- Grants received
- $29M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Young Women's Freedom Center does
Mission
The core mission of the Young Women's Freedom Center is to inspire and empower young women who have been involved in the juvenile justice system, criminal justice system, and/or the underground street economy to create a positive change in their lives and communities. Additionally, the Young Women's Freedom Center backend freedom center is to provide fiscal sponsorship, operational support, coaching, and training to projects that center systems-impacted women, girls, and trans people of all genders with the primary purpose to inspire and empower young women who have been involved in the juvenile justice system, criminal justice system, and or the underground street economy to create positive change in their lives and communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Young Women's Freedom Center (ywfc) advanced its core mission working with young women across california in five counties providing comprehensive programming to over 3,500 youth in the areas of leadership development, power building, workforce development and community organizing and civic engagement. Ywfc offered its core programs to young people surviving poverty, living and working on the streets, homeless young people, young people entangled in the juvenile justice system and foster care, and young pregnant and parenting youth.additional programs provided by ywfc include beloved village, a pilot program providing deep investment and intensive wrap around services to the young person and that young person's family to address structural drivers of youth incarceration including poverty, housing, and services to address immediate and longer-term needs. This program served an additional 100 + youth across california and an additional 72 parents and caregivers, investing significant resources into the young person and family and creating community-based alternatives to incarceration and congregate care in los angeles and the bay area.through the sister warriors freedom coalition,…
$9,931,545 spentof which $713,260 as grants$288,723 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,931,545.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.1M to $7.3M (+43%).
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 44% · 2018 26% · 2019 28% · 2020 20% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 33% · 2024 28% · 2025 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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.
Board chair
Julie Posadas-Guzman
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $186k → $8.9M.
25 of 90 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 90 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
YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
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 YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 30% · 2018 57% · 2019 21% · 2020 35% · 2021 19% · 2022 24% · 2023 51% — 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
30% of YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
80% of YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $14M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,297 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,297 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER
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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
89%
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 YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER: 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 YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER?
- YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER (California) receives grants from 90 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,651,218 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($7,065,000). 45 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 90 organizations giving $28,651,218 in grants to YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER, 45 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $7,065,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like YOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER 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 90 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