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Global Fund for Women Inc

We fund bold, ambitious, and expansive gender justice movements to create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes.

$14M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$190k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 14
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$75M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Global Fund for Women Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEducationPhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$190k20%
FY202410$664k40%
FY202314$1.6M50%
FY202214$798k71%
FY20219$173k56%
FY20203$70k67%
FY20192$23k50%
FY20182$18k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.5MInternational$1.0MEducation$414kCrime & Legal$400kCivil Rights$363kArts & Culture$119kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$35kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
AR
DC
HI
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Reimagination Lab Inc$675,000426%
Destiny Bridge Builders$640,0001n/a
Me Too International Inc$500,00034%
Global Health Strategies LLC$318,6162n/a
Urgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism$200,00021%
Women Deliver Inc$163,64911%
Womens Funding Network$112,50082%
Disability Rights Fund Inc$100,00011%
International Civil Society Action Network Inc$100,00013%
Women's Environment and Development Organization$70,00021%
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Where it is load-bearing

Global Fund for Women Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 25 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Reimagination Lab Inc: $675,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetMe Too International Inc: $500,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetUrgent Action Fund for Feminist Activism: $200,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWomen Deliver Inc: $163,649 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWomens Funding Network: $112,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetDisability Rights Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetInternational Civil Society Action Network Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWomen's Environment and Development Organization: $70,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetInternational Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSisterlove Incorporated: $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPanorama Global: $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAfrican Diaspora Network: $50,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetLavender Rights Project: $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Initiatives: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Women Invested to Save Earth Fund: $40,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetBay Area Women Leader Network: $28,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMuseum of the African Diaspora (Moad): $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN CROSS DMZ Attn CATHI CHOI: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHip Hop for Change Inc: $19,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOmega Institute for Holistic Studies Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGenderavenger: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJust Associates Inc: $5,760 over 1y, 0.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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 Ford FoundationNY24.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Channel Foundation · Novo Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Foundation for a Just Society · Impactassetsinc

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.

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About Global Fund for Women Inc

How much does Global Fund for Women Inc give?
Global Fund for Women Inc reported 5 itemized grants totaling $190,000, out of $13,713,100 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Global Fund for Women Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (38%), International (25%), Education (10%).
Who are Global Fund for Women Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Reimagination Lab Inc ($675k), Destiny Bridge Builders ($640k), Me Too International Inc ($500k).
Does Global Fund for Women Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Global Fund for Women Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc.
Where is Global Fund for Women Inc based?
Global Fund for Women Inc is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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