Massachusetts · 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. We strive for a world free of racism, poverty, and sexism.
- $554k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $432k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $70,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 32
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Boston Women's Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $432k | 29% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $330k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $465k | 41% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $316k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $190k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $145k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $50k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $40k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women Encouraging Empowerment Inc | $118,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Association of Haitian Women Inc | $115,750 | 7 | 11% |
| Resist Inc | $107,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Bagly Inc | $105,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Sisters Unchained Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Abilities Dance Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 13% |
| Asian Women for Health Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Asian American Women's Political Initiative Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $76,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Grimes - King Foundation for the Elderly | $75,000 | 4 | 14% |
Show all 49 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Boston Women's Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 39 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Health Resources in Action Inc · The Lenny Zakim Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Foley Hoag Foundation · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Boston Women's Fund Inc
- How much does Boston Women's Fund Inc give?
- Boston Women's Fund Inc reported 21 itemized grants totaling $432,279, out of $553,788 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Boston Women's Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (35%), Civil Rights (13%), Education (12%).
- Who are Boston Women's Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Women Encouraging Empowerment Inc ($118k), Association of Haitian Women Inc ($116k), Resist Inc ($108k).
- Does Boston Women's Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Boston Women's Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Haymarket People's Fund Inc.
- Where is Boston Women's Fund Inc based?
- Boston Women's Fund Inc is based in MA.
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