100 Women Charitable Foundation Inc
Los Altos, CA · EIN 20-5704725. Reported 24 grants totalling $658,500 to 22 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For 100 Women Charitable Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 22 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 0% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $30,000. Half of what it reported fell between $14,500 and $40,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $45,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
6 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $178,500 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Counseling and Support Services for Youth | Milpitas, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends for Youth Inc | Palo Alto, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Learning Home Volunteers | San Carlos, CA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative Inc | San Jose, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| First Place for Youth | Oakland, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Homefirst Services of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latinas Contra Cancer | San Jose, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence | San Jose, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| One Life Counseling Center | San Carlos, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Parisi House on the Hill | San Joss, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peninsula Food Runners Inc | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Grateful Garment Project | San Jose, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bay Area Tutoring Association | Milpitas, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Cycles of California Inc | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Interbranch Special Projects Foundation of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Recovery Cafe San Jose Inc | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid Society of San Mateo Co | Redwood City, CA | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Live in Peace Inc | E Palo Alto, CA | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loved Twice | Oakland, CA | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| My Digital TAT2 | Palo Alto, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Silicon Valley Urban Debate League | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
2 of 22 (9%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Friends for Youth
TO SUPPORT ON ORGANIZATIONS WHICH SERVES AS A LIFELINE FOR OFTEN-OVERLOOKED YOUTH. THE ORGANIZATION SUPPORTS YOUTH FACING ABUSE, DEEP POVERTY, INCARCERATED PARENTS, OR JUST NOT HAVING A TRUSTED ADULT TO TALK TO, BY MATCHING THEM WITH CARING ADULT MENTORS. THE GRANT WILL ASSIST FOR THE EXPANSION OF 1-TO-1 AND GROUP MENTORING SERVICES INTO FOUR MORE SCHOOLS WITHIN THE REDWOOD CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND SAN MATEO FOSTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND TWO COMMUNITY PARTNER SITES. - Counseling & Support Services for Youth
TO SUPPORT AN ORGANIZATION WHICH IS A BEACON OF HOPE FOR THE AREAS YOUTH SUFFERING FROM MENTAL HEALTH CONCERNS. THE GRANT WILL HELP FUND THE ORGANIZATIONS EXPANSION IN THEIR NEWEST PARTNERSHIP WITH THE SANTA CLARA SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE GRANT WILL HELP FUND 4 THERAPISTS SUPPORTING FOUR OF THEIR SCHOOLS IN THE AREA. - Learning Home Volunteers
SUPPORT AN ORGANIZATION WHICH ASSISTS LOW-INCOME FAMILIES IN SAN MATEO COUNTY TO HELP 2 TO 5 YEAR-OLD CHILDREN GET AN EQUAL START AT SCHOOL BY IMPROVING THEIR KINDERGARTEN READINESS. THE GRANT WOULD PROVIDE THE WRAP-AROUND SUPPORT FOR AN ADDITIONAL 50 LOCAL LOW-INCOME CHILDREN ENSURING THAT THEY ARE NOT ONLY KINDERGARTEN READY BUT ARE AT PARITY WITH THEIR MORE AFFLUENT PEERS. - Home First Services of Santa Clara County
THE GRANT WILL ALLOW HOMEFIRST TO EXPAND PROJECT HOPE, HELPING MORE CLIENTS IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY SECURE PERMANENT HOUSING. THIS SUPPORT WILL ENABLE INDIVIDUALS TO MOVE OFF THE STREETS, OUT OF SHELTERS OR TRANSITIONAL HOUSING, AND INTO STABLE HOMES WHERE THEY CAN CONTINUE WORKING TOWARD THEIR LIFE GOALS WITH ONGOING ASSISTANCE. - The Grateful Garment Project
THE GRANT WILL HELP TGGP PREPARE FOR AN EXPECTED SURGE IN HUMAN TRAFFICKING DURING THE 2026 SUPER BOWL AND WORLD CUP IN SANTA CLARA COUNTY. FUNDS WILL SUPPORT 200+ EMERGENCY BACKPACKS WITH CLOTHING, HYGIENE ITEMS, FOOD, AND THERAPEUTIC RESOURCES, PLUS EMERGENCY CLOTHING FOR 100+ ADDITIONAL SURVIVORS. - First Place for Youth
THE GRANT WILL EXPAND FIRST PLACE'S STEPS TO SUCCESS & EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM, EQUIPPING FOSTER YOUTH WITH THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED FOR LONG-TERM FINANCIAL INDEPENDENCE. THIS CAREER-FOCUSED INITIATIVE INCLUDES INDIVIDUALIZED COUNSELING AND AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPRENTICESHIP MODEL TO BREAK BARRIERS TO LIVING-WAGE JOBS.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 18 of 22 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 6 | $150,000 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 6 | $150,000 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 6 | $178,500 | $29,750 |
| 2024 | 6 | $180,000 | $30,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $30,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from 100 Women Charitable Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 6 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 6 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 3418, Los Altos, CA, 94024.
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