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Women 4 Women Inc

Women 4 women and its donors improve the lives of women and girls in metro louisville through education, advocacy and fundraising for focused grantmaking in 4 key areas that enable self-sufficiency.

$35k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your 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 FY2017–2021.

Employment$70kHousing & Shelter$63kYouth Development$60kEducation$50kHuman Services$42kCrime & Legal$35kFood & Nutrition$25kRecreation & Sports$15kOther$0
02FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$199k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $84k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $10k → 4%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $7k → 4%UNITING PARTNERS FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $3k → 15%MOM'S CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 15%SCARLET HOPE: $20k → 15%DRESS FOR SUCCESS: $10k → 15%LACASITA CENTER: $5k → 15%YOUTHBUILD LOUISVILLE: $10k → 15%ANCHAL PROJECT: $10k → 15%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.

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Women 4 Women Inc’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. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 93% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Women 4 Women Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your 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
The Center for Women and Families Inc

To help victims of intimate partner abuse or sexual violence become survivors through supportive services, community education and cooperative partnerships that foster hope, promote self-sufficiency and rebuild lives.

Human Services
2
House of Hope of Kentucky Inc

To reach and help women who struggle with alcohol and chemical dependency; to offer assistance and resources to women while going through the rehabilitation process; to provide a safe environment and shelter to homeless women; to provide…

Health
3
Casa of South Central Kentucky Inc

Volunteers in action seeking safety and permanency for our community's youngest victims. casa provides support, advocacy, and intervention for abused, neglected, and dependent children in south central ky's family court system.

Crime & Legal
4
Hope House of Central Louisiana

To provide transitional shelter for homeless women and their dependent children while these women are receiving the necessary training and skills to become self sufficient

Housing & Shelter
5
Family Self Help Center Inc

A sanctuary for survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and substance use disorders.

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6
Sycamore Farm Ky Inc

To help sexually exploited and trafficked women find freedom through the love of jesus. we do this through our jail outreach program and through our emergency safehouse specifically designed to help women get safe, stable, and on to their…

Human Services
7
Citylink Center

To show god's love to those in need by providing an integrated path to holistic life change.

Community Improvement
8
The Women's Center Inc

To provide safety, shelter and support to empower all impacted by domestic abuse, sexual violence, child abuse & trafficking.

Human Services
9
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center Inc

To provide families in western kentucky with education, advocacy and treatment that prevents child abuse, encourages family stability, promotes healthy relationships, enhances well-being and cultivates safe, nurturing families.

Crime & Legal
10
Chrysalis House Inc

The mission of chrysalis house inc. is to provide family-oriented treatment and recovery support for women with substance use disorders.

Health
11
Our Ladys Inn

Care of unhoused pregnant women and their children.

Human Services
12
The Women's Advocacy Center

The mission of the women's advocacy center is to empower and support survivors and victims of domestic abuse in east shelby county, tennessee. we do this using a 24-month, vertical abuse intervention model to educate women on how to gain…

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Adult Development in Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prodigal Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%0%<5yr16%10%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr15%29%35–55yr14%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%0%<5yr16%7%5–10yr17%19%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr15%27%35–55yr14%26%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
14%
607/4,252

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.

05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $15,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INCSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 · OtherSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCNATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION- LOUISVILLE CHAPTER — $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION- LOUISVILL…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA I…LOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $15,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH…LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY INCSISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH INC — $10,000 · OtherSISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE - FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $8,400 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF LOUISVILLE - FUND…WOMEN INFLUENCING LOUISVILLE CHARITIES — $5,000 · OtherBEADED TREASURES PROJECT — $5,000 · OtherSCARLET HOPE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesSCARLET HOPE INCPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC — $16,500 · Human ServicesPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INCDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISV…YOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT …MOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CEN…ANCHAL INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesANCHAL INCLA CASITA CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesLA CASITA CENTER INC+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesLIFEHOUSE INC — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterLIFEHOUSE INCREFUGE FOR WOMEN INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterREFUGE FOR WOMEN …SHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterSHIVELY AREA MINI…UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…GIRLS ON THE RUN OF LOUISVILLE INC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsLOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC — $15,000 · Recreation & SportsMARYHURST INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCASA OF THE RIVER REGION — $10,000 · Civil RightsSpina Bifida Association of Kentucky Inc — $10,000 · Health
Other$138,400Human Services$84,000Housing & Shelter$60,000Education$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Youth Development$15,000Civil Rights$10,000Health$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEHOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSCARLET HOPE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC — $16,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES — $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC — $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetMARYHURST INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANCHAL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of Kentucky Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetLA CASITA CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUniting Partners for Women and Children — $2,500 over 1y, 1.9% 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 Community Foundat…The Gheens Foundation…The Community Foundat…The Community Foundat…Honorable Order of Ke…Kosair Charities Comm…Cralle Foundation IncMetro United Way IncLG&E and Ku Foundatio…Republic Bank Foundat…Snowy Owl Foundation …Mightycause Charitabl…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY46.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · The Gheens Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Corporate Depository Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Metro United Way Inc · LG&E and Ku Foundation Inc · Republic Bank Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · Mightycause Charitable 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 Women 4 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    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 28 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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