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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 you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.5MInternational$1.0MEducation$414kCrime & Legal$400kCivil Rights$363kArts & Culture$119kEnvironment$40kPublic Benefit$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $190,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $13,713,100 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,523,100 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 · 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 CENTER FOR HEALTH ETHICS AND SOCIAL POLICY$10,000
THE WOMEN INVESTED TO SAVE EARTH FUND$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your 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 your 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

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

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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

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

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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

+23%
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

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

  • 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 +23%

Funded once

  • DB
    DESTINY BRIDGE BUILDERS
    one grant, 2023 · $640k · revenue +5%
  • WD
    Women Deliver Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $164k · revenue -89%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +67%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
3
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
4
Equality Now Inc

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

International
5
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc
Philanthropy
6
The Conversationalist
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7
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
8
Fuller Project for International Reporting Inc

The fuller project is the global newsroom dedicated to groundbreaking reporting that catalyzes positive change for women.

International
9
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
10
Independent Women's Forum

Engage more individuals in the civic process, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals.

Civil Rights
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women Deliver Inc and 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Developmental Disabilities …Pregnancy Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportLocal History MuseumsImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Women & Girls Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%6%<5yr14%11%5–10yr19%31%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%19%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 19% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/41
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,524

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/37
Grantees still filing
20/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetINTERNATIONAL CIVIL SOCIETY ACTION NETWORK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGroundswell Fund — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSISTERLOVE INCORPORATED — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% 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 budgetThe Women Invested to Save Earth Fund — $40,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetLavender Rights Project — $40,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA WOMEN LEADER NETWORK — $28,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA (MOAD) — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 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 budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENDERAVENGER — $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetJUST ASSOCIATES INC — $5,760 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Global Fund for Women Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your 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

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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