How much does Gender Justice Fund give?

Gender Justice Fund reported 38 grants totaling $625,820 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Gender Justice Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Civil Rights (21%), Youth Development (10%).

Who are Gender Justice Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sankofa Healing Studio ($188k), Ardella's House Inc ($125k), Your Empowered Sexuality Inc ($95k).

Does Gender Justice Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Gender Justice Fund accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Gender Justice Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, The Barra Foundation Inc.

Where is Gender Justice Fund based?

Gender Justice Fund is based in PA.

Gender Justice Fund

Gender Justice Fund at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Private foundation

Gender Justice Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$626k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$75k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$735kCivil Rights$536kYouth Development$267kHuman Services$229kCrime & Legal$161kEducation$135kPhilanthropy$105kArts & Culture$82kOther$0

02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $32k
$10k–50k29 grants · $444k
$50k–250k2 grants · $150k

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Ardellas House Inc	$75,000
Sankofa Healing Studio	$75,000
Eastern Pa Trans Equity Project Inc	$33,000
The Welcome Project PA	$25,000
William Way Lgbt Community Center	$22,000
Your Empowered Sexuality Inc	$22,000
Resilience Resource Center	$22,000
Philadelphia FIGHT	$20,000
Why Not Prosper Inc	$20,000
Aids Law Project Of Pennsylvania	$20,000
Attic Youth Center	$20,000
Valley Youth House Committee	$20,000
Movement Alliance Project	$16,000
National Domestic Workers Alliance	$16,000
Hack Foundation	$13,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $569k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

How this is measured

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.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

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

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$2.7M · 51 repeat orgs$351k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

51 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.7M

$241k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+11%

Still filing today

69%

52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

YE
YOUR EMPOWERED SEXUALITY INC
4× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +186%
PP
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA
7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +39%
THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER
5× · 2021–2025 · $92k · revenue +13%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $50k
OPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -100%
GI
GIRLS INC
one grant, 2017 · $19k

How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Philadelphia Health Partnership

Health

Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

Public Trust

Public Trust is a non-profit organization on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania that fosters learning, creativity, and collaboration in support of justice and equality.

Arts & Culture

The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal

Together for West Philadelphia

Together for West Philadelphia partners with healthcare systems community-based organizations, academic institutions, and public and private stakeholders to achieve equitable health outcomes for West Philadelphians.

Unclassified

The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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Equity Project

The Equity Project is committed to advancing racial equity through radical access. We believe every community has the right to transformative experiences creative spaces and the resources needed to reach our full potential. We build the…

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The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership

The Philadelphia Prevention Partnership is a coalition of community partnerships sharing the common goal of preventing substance abuse Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs in the long term throughout the City.

Health

Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health

Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal

Pennsylvania United

PA United organizes and builds power across Western PA to create

Civil Rights

One Philly

One Philly's mission is to promote policies and actions championed by City leaders and to show the impact those policies and actions have on people's lives and the future of the City.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Voices Pittsburgh Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alice Paul Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 85 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

57/58

Grantees still filing

39/58

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$1,106,840Health$769,795Human Services$611,455Civil Rights$262,455Youth Development$211,084Education$179,000Arts & Culture$70,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA63.7× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The William Penn Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Bread and Roses Community Fund · Independence Foundation · Independence Public Media of Philadelphia Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Claneil Foundation Inc · Womens Way · Valentine Foundation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation

How this is measured

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

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Gender Justice Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gender Justice Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gender Justice Fund?

Find your warmest path to Gender Justice Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home