How much did BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC grant in FY2023?

BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC reported 32 grants totaling $516,870 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC based?

BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC is based in MA.

BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC

To support community-based organizations & grassroots initiatives run by women and girls in order to create a society based on racial, economic and social justice.

$517k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$32k

Largest

01What you fund

0171% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.

Community Improvement$168kEducation$158kYouth Development$142kCivil Rights$87kArts & Culture$85kHousing & Shelter$70kHealth$60kCrime & Legal$30kHuman Services$30kOther$337k

02FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k11 grants · $70k
$10k–50k21 grants · $395k

$12,500

Median grant

States reached

$3.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

BUILDING AUDACITY - JC ACAD$31,500
PROPA CITY COMMUNITY OUTREACH$25,000
BIRTH EQUITY & JUSTICE MASSACHUSETTS (BEJMA)$25,000
MELANIN MASS MOMS$25,000
LOVE YOUR MAGIC$22,500
GRIMES-KING FOUNDATION FOR THE ELDERLY INC$20,000
MASS TRANSGENDER POLITICAL COALITION$20,000
ASIAN AMERICAN WOMENS POLITICAL INITIATIVE$20,000
NIPMUC INDIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (FOR EWRC)$20,000
SISTERS UNCHAINED INC$20,000
ABILITIES DANCE$20,000
WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT$20,000
DOMINICAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER$20,000
ASIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH$20,000
ASSOC OF HAITIAN WOMEN$20,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$918k · 23 repeat orgs$249k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$918k

$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+106%

Still filing today

96%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Youth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationCivil RightsArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TSNE
5× · 2019–2023 · $77k · revenue +34%
AO
Assoc of Haitian Women
4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +1013%
Mass Transgender Political Coalion
3× · 2021–2023 · $65k · revenue +73%

Funded once

NC
Northeast Center for Tradeswomen
2× · 2020–2021 · $25k
LY
Love Your Mensesgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +96%
BB
Black Boston COVID 19 Coalition
one grant, 2021 · $15k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition

Eradication of racial inequities among women of color

Civil Rights

Boston Women's Fund Inc

To support community-based organizations & grassroots initiatives run by women and girls in order to create a society based on racial, economic and social justice. we strive for a world free of racism, poverty, and sexism.

Philanthropy

Youthbuild Boston Inc

To provide educational and skill training for low income youth.

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Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education

Womens March Inc

Harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change

—

Ywca Central Massachusetts Inc

Women's growth and leadership

Human Services

Boston Girls Empowerment Network Inc

BGEN helps GSOs build the capacity training technical assistance to improve services by incorporating effective gender-responsive practise to improve outcomes for women and girls.

Youth Development

Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus

The massachusetts women's political caucus is a multipartisan organization founded in 1971 to maximize the participation of women of all ages in the political process and to increase the number of women appointed and elected to public…

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Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc

Eliminate racism, empower women and promote peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

—

Women Engaged Inc

To support the power-building of black women & young adults creating a world where compassionate fact-based, equity-centered approaches are used

Civil Rights

Friends of Youth Opportunity Boston Inc

To empower and motivate young people so they may gain the education, employment, and career advancement to be successful in the workplace, in the community, and in their lives.

Education

Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grimes - King Foundation for the Elderly. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 15% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/39

the rest of the field

1,956/21,414

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

25/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$456,750Community Improvement$168,000Education$158,000Youth Development$141,900Civil Rights$86,500Arts & Culture$85,000Housing & Shelter$70,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMA43.6× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

15get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: MASS ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATORS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461063709 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on MASS ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATORS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 26% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Boston Women's Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Boston Women's Fund Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Boston Women's Fund Inc?

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BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Boston Women's Fund Inc?

More from the funding graph