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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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 2021.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$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
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Women 4 Women Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 93%.

Women 4 Women Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its 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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Adult Development in Action Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INCNATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION- LOUISVILLE CHAPTER: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL BLACK MBA ASSOCIATION- LOUISVILL…GIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $15,000 · OtherGIRL SCOUTS OF KENTUCKIANA INCSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 · OtherSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INCLOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 · OtherLOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $15,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA I…SISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH INC: $10,000 · OtherSISTERS OF CHARITY OF NAZARETH INCLEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY 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 INCYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG ADULT DEVELOPMENT …ANCHAL INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesANCHAL INCMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CEN…DRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISV…LA 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…LOUISVILLE CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTERINC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsGIRLS ON THE RUN OF LOUISVILLE INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsMARYHURST INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSpina Bifida Association of Kentucky Inc: $10,000 · HealthCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$138,400Human Services$84,000Housing & Shelter$60,000Education$35,000Recreation & Sports$30,000Youth Development$15,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetSHIVELY AREA MINISTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMARYHURST INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH LOUISVILLE COMMUNITY MINISTRIES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLOUISVILLE MEDICAL LEGAL COMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF KENTUCKIANA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSpina Bifida Association of Kentucky Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetCASA OF THE RIVER REGION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetANCHAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetMOMS CLOSET RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS LOUISVILLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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
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.

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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Women 4 Women Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women 4 Women Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
    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.

    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 28 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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