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Global Fund for Women Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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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 FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $190,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $13,713,100 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,523,100 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$75M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ME TOO INTERNATIONAL$100,000
WOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION$50,000
PANORAMA GLOBAL$20,000
THE WOMEN INVESTED TO SAVE EARTH FUND$10,000
THE CENTER FOR HEALTH ETHICS AND SOCIAL POLICY$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $129k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOW WOMEN LEAD: $29k → 10%INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK: $100k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
AR
DC
HI
GA

Grants abroad, by region: $13M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$4.9M · 37% · 128 grants

Stated purpose: ENSURING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE · ADVANCING HEALTH AND SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS · BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.4M · 18% · 50 grants

Stated purpose: BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE · EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT · FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY

Middle East and North Africa$1.4M · 11% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE · ADVANCING HEALTH AND SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS · EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

East Asia and the Pacific$1.3M · 9% · 12 grants

Stated purpose: BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE · FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY · ADVANCING HEALTH AND SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

South America$1.2M · 9% · 43 grants

Stated purpose: EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT · FOSTERING SOCIAL CHANGE PHILANTHROPY · BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

Central America and the Caribbean$1.0M · 8% · 9 grants

Stated purpose: EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT · ENSURING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE · TRAVEL FOR PROGRAMMATIC PROGRAMMATIC PROJECT

South Asia$696k · 5% · 36 grants

Stated purpose: ENSURING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE · BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE · ADVANCING HEALTH AND SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Russia and Neighboring States$241k · 2% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE

North America (Canada and Mexico)$155k · 1% · 6 grants

Stated purpose: BUILDING PEACE AND ENDING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE · TRAVEL FOR PROGRAMMATIC PROGRAMMATIC PROJECT · EXPANDING CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 13 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
0%

Still filing today

85%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsOther
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

  • TR
    The Reimagination Lab Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $675k · revenue +321% · 26% of their budget
  • MT
    Me Too International Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $500k · revenue +186%
  • WF
    Womens Funding Network
    8× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • DB
    DESTINY BRIDGE BUILDERS
    one grant, 2023 · $640k · revenue +5%
  • WD
    Women Deliver Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $164k · revenue -89%
  • DR
    DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -4%
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.

1
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
2
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
3
World Pulse Voices

World Pulse is a global social impact network connecting women from 227 countries to accelerate social change. We provide a safe and supportive online space where women can speak for themselves, make powerful connections, and access the…

Human Services
4
Women Donors Network

Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.

Philanthropy
5
Equality Now Inc

To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.

International
6
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
7
Sisterhood Is Global Institute Inc

The sisterhood is global institute, inc. (sigi) has consultative status with the united nations, and for more than three decades has played a leading policy-formulation, strategic and activist role in the evolution of the international…

International
8
The Conversationalist
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9
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
10
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
11
Womens Foreign Policy Group Inc

Founded in 1995 wfpg works to expand the foreign policy dialogue across policital divides and generations and to support women at every stake of their careers. as champions of womens leadership we are proud of our role in expanding the…

International
12
Whose Knowledge Question Mark

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women Deliver Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Health and Social Policy 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

37 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. 37 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
21/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Reimagination Lab Inc: $675,000 · Arts & CultureThe Reimagination La…MUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD): $25,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $19,000 · Arts & CultureDESTINY BRIDGE BUILDERS: $640,000 · EmploymentDESTINY BRIDGE BUI…URGENT ACTION FUND FOR FEMINIST ACTIVISM: $200,000 · InternationalURGENT ACTION FUN…DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC: $100,000 · InternationalDISABILITY RIGHTS…INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $70,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLA…SISTERLOVE INCORPORATED: $60,000 · InternationalSISTERLOVE INCORP…PANORAMA GLOBAL: $55,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBALAfrican Diaspora Network: $50,000 · InternationalAfrican Diaspora …AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 · InternationalPeace Development Fund: $23,113 · International+2 more: $30,000 · InternationalTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $270,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF …Women Deliver Inc: $163,649 · EducationWomen Deliver In…Womens Funding Network: $112,500 · EducationWomens Funding N…+3 more: $37,500 · Education+3 moreMe Too International Inc: $500,000 · Crime & LegalMe Too Internat…Lavender Rights Project: $40,000 · Crime & LegalLavender Rights…GLOBAL HEALTH STRATEGIES LLC: $318,616 · OtherGLOBAL HEALTH STRATE…THE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATI…WE CAN'T BREATHE (WCB): $31,000 · OtherOpportunity Collaboration: $29,400 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INC: $100,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL CIVIL …BAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK: $28,500 · OtherWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $70,000 · OtherWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT …The Women Invested to Save Earth Fund: $40,000 · OtherThe Women Invested t…+7 more: $68,849 · Other+7 moreGroundswell Fund: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $40,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$719,000Employment$640,000International$613,113Education$583,649Crime & Legal$540,000Other$736,365Philanthropy$170,000

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

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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $270,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE ASTRAEA FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GIVING BACK FUND: $45,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD): $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Development Fund: $23,113 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 budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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 Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Wellspring Philanthro…Tides FoundationFoundation to Promote…Channel FoundationNovo FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Open Society InstituteConrad N Hilton Found…Foundation for a Just…Impactassetsinc
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Disability Rights Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

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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