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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k27 grants · $636k
- $50k–250k113 grants · $10M
- $250k+2 grants · $2.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $1,850,000 |
| WDN ACTION | $350,000 |
| CENTER FOR TECHNOLOGY AND CIVIC LIFE | $188,675 |
| ABORTION FUND OF OHIO | $150,000 |
| WOMEN'S EMERGENCY NETWORK INC | $150,000 |
| INFACT DBA CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY | $150,000 |
| OUR JUSTICE | $150,000 |
| PRO-CHOICE ARIZONA | $150,000 |
| ARIA MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $138,000 |
| BEYOND TRENCHES INC | $130,000 |
| THE GOOD INFORMATION FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS INC | $107,000 |
| CENTER FOR THIRD WORLD ORGANIZING | $100,000 |
| AYADA LEADS | $100,000 |
| SILVER STATE HOPE FUND | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of Women Donors Network’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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 59 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.8M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WDWOMEN DONORS NETWORK ACTION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue ×15
- IDInfact DBA Corporate Accountability6× · 2019–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +14%
Alliance for Global Justice Corp3× · 2018–2020 · $1.2M · revenue +41%
Funded once
- WHWOMEN'S HEALTH CENTER OF WEST VIRGINIA INCone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue -33%
- YFYellowhammer Fundone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -54%
- ACABORTION CARE NETWORKone grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -42%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
The International Network for the Reduction of Abortion Discrimination and Stigma (inroads) builds cross-movement collective power, provides flexible resources, and strengthens movements across the global abortion justice ecosystem to…
To protect and promote every persons right to access the full range of reproductive healthcare choices in Washington State, including safe and legal abortion, through education, advocacy, lobbying and coalition-building
The national network of abortion funds (nnaf) is determined to build a world where all reproductive options are valued, accessible, and stigma-free. we believe all people know how to best care for their own bodies and build their own…
FORWARD TOGETHER ACTION (FTA) is an national reproductive justice organization that ORGANIZES COMMUNITIES who experience reproductive oppression TO BUILD POWER. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of colorAnd…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.
Women donors network advances a just, equitable, and sustainable world through the power of philanthropy, women's leadership, and collective and individual action.
The Pro-Choice Washington Foundation is our 501c3 focused on issue research, leadership development, and community and decision-maker education.
Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is Indigenous Women Rising Indigeous Women Rising. 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.
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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
248 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. 248 of the 256 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN DONORS NETWORK ACTION ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp ↗
- Who funds Verified Voting Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROTEUS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUAL RIGHTS ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SHARE EQUITY ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds National Women's Health Network ↗
- Who funds TAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United for Respect Education Fund ↗
- Who funds Center for Third World Organizing ↗
- Who funds Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Inc ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds NEW ECONOMY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds UltraViolet Education Fund ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN VOICES ↗
- Who funds PROGEORGIA STATE TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds Peace Development Fund ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds VOTER FORMATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA COALITION FOR CHANGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · National Network of Abortion Funds Inc · New Venture Fund · Groundswell Fund · Windward Fund · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Tides Foundation · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · 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 Women Donors Network 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 0% of income from government
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.