· Public charity
International Women's Media Foundation
The iwmf unleashes the potential of women journalists as champions of press freedom to transform the global news media.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $760,993 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,436,724 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $675,731 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $614k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A CULTURE OF SAFETY INC | $614,442 |
| SPOTIFY USA INC | $50,000 |
| VERIFIED NEWS NETWORK | $29,309 |
| NBC UNIVERSAL MEDIA LLC | $10,242 |
| CREATE GENIUS MEDIA LLC | $10,000 |
| MEDIA INNOVATION COLLABORATORY | $10,000 |
| NEW MEXICO IN DEPTH | $10,000 |
| PEN AMERICA CENTER | $10,000 |
| GREEN TIDE RISING LLC | $10,000 |
| MIAMI TRAVEL WORLD LLC | $7,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–22, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $498k on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $195k to organizations and $302k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP · EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP · EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: NDI · EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: FISCAL SPONSORSHIP · CRAIG NEWMARK FOUNDATION · EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUND · EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS
Stated purpose: EMERGENCY FUNDS
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of International Women's Media Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $761k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TYToo Young to Wed Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $660k · revenue -31%
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $24k · revenue -5%
TEXAS TRIBUNE INC2× · 2022–2023 · $17k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- UMURL Media Holdings Incone grant, 2022 · $215k
- DFDemocracy Fund Incone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +7%
- ALArizona Local Postgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $58k · revenue +65%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 37 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Too Young to Wed Inc ↗
- Who funds A CULTURE OF SAFETY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PLEDGELING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Democracy Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Arizona Local Post ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEREST REPORTING ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds TEXAS TRIBUNE INC ↗
- Who funds Spero Worldwide ↗
- Who funds THE 19TH NEWS ↗
- Who funds Feminist Frequency ↗
- Who funds New Mexico In Depth Inc ↗
- Who funds THE AFRICAN MIDDLE EASTERN LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NARRATIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Uplift Afghanistan Fund ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization International Women's Media Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 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.