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The Foundation for Women's Wellness

THE FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN'S WELLNESS (fww) was organized and incorporated in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) public charity dedicated to improving women's health by raising support for medical research and education in leading women's health concerns.

$144k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2024.

Health$515kEducation$60kScience & Tech$50k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $105,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $144,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $39,000 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.
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$25,000
MAYO CLINIC$25,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $25k → 16%MAYO CLINIC: $25k → 9%BASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS DALLAS: $25k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER OF SAN ANTONIO: $25k → 16%CLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $25k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $25k → 14%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $25k → 10%BRINGHAM WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $40k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%DANA-FARBER CANCER CENTER: $35k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $30k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%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

NH
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
AZ
SC
TX
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.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$270k · 3 repeat orgs$305k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
13

Total granted

$270k
$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+46%

Still filing today

33%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthOther
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

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    5× · 2019–2024 · $135k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $80k
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $55k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +47%
  • Rochester Institute of Technologygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +38%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +52%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
4
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
5
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
6
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
7
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
8
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
Thomas Jefferson University

Thomas jefferson university ("tju") is a comprehensive university with preeminence in transdisciplinary, experiential professional education, research and discovery, delivering exceptional value for the 21st century students with…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer 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

10 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. 10 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $135,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $80,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $25,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS: $25,000 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTH: $25,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS CENTER FOR BRAINHEALTHARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYCLEMSON UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherCLEMSON UNIVERSITYTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA: $25,000 · OtherTHE UNIV OF TX HEALTH SCIENCE CTR OF SA+1 more: $10,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $55,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MED…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $35,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Instit…BASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 · HealthBASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONA…MAYO CLINIC: $25,000 · HealthMAYO CLINICRochester Institute of Technology: $25,000 · EducationRochester Institute…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVE…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $25,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmou…Marquette University: $10,000 · EducationMarquette Universit…
Other$375,000Health$140,000Education$110,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBASIC HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Foundation for Women's Wellness funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foundation for Women's Wellness. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Foundation for Women's Wellness 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.

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 18 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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