Washington, D.C. · Public charity
Washington Area Women's Foundation
To invest in the power of women and girls of color in the washington, dc area.
- $483k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 8%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $462k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $106,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Washington Area Women's Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 17 | $462k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $390k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $556k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $582k | 11% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $856k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $740k | 53% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $738k | 41% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $371k | 69% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Black Swan Academy Inc | $605,300 | 6 | 9% |
| Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc | $476,013 | 9 | 3% |
| Wonders Early Learning Extended Day | $275,000 | 4 | 3% |
| DC Rape Crisis Center | $275,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Freshh Inc | $270,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Voices for Virginia's Children | $190,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Fusion Partnership Inc | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| DC Fiscal Policy Institute Inc | $170,000 | 6 | 2% |
| YWCA National Capital Area | $167,000 | 4 | 3% |
| House of Ruth | $155,000 | 2 | 1% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Washington Area Women's Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 71 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · United Way of the National Capital Area · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Richard E & Nancy P Marriott Foundation · If Foundation · Dimick Foundation John M Lynham Jr Trustee · Truist Foundation Inc · Corina Higginson Trust Co Laura Ford Trustee · John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundation · Foley Hoag Foundation
How this is measured
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About Washington Area Women's Foundation
- How much does Washington Area Women's Foundation give?
- Washington Area Women's Foundation reported 17 itemized grants totaling $461,500, out of $483,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Washington Area Women's Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (25%), Education (25%), Youth Development (16%).
- Who are Washington Area Women's Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Black Swan Academy Inc ($605k), Prince George's Child Resource Centerinc ($476k), Wonders Early Learning Extended Day ($275k).
- Does Washington Area Women's Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Washington Area Women's Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Greater Washington Community Foundation, Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation.
- Where is Washington Area Women's Foundation based?
- Washington Area Women's Foundation is based in DC.
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