How much does Women Donors Network Action give?

Women Donors Network Action reported 73 grants totaling $10,585,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 62 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.

What does Women Donors Network Action fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (58%), Public Benefit (28%), Human Services (6%).

Who are Women Donors Network Action's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Tides Advocacy ($2.0M), Center for Empowered Politics ($1.1M), Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc ($930k).

Does Women Donors Network Action fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Women Donors Network Action?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Way to Win Action Fund Inc, Tides Advocacy, All Hands on Deck Network Inc.

Where is Women Donors Network Action based?

Women Donors Network Action is based in CA.

Women Donors Network Action

Women Donors Network Action at a glance Also receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

Women Donors Network Action

To channel collective power and resources in solidarity with movements to advance the organization's vision of creating a just and sustainable world where everyone can safely and freely determine their own futures.

$11M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$400k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Civil Rights$20MPublic Benefit$9.6MHuman Services$2.0MCommunity Improvement$1.3MEnvironment$837kArts & Culture$200kPhilanthropy$200kCrime & Legal$140kOther$0

02FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k5 grants · $140k
$50k–250k56 grants · $6.8M
$250k+12 grants · $3.6M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.3M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC	$400,000
NCAAT IN ACTION	$300,000
ONE APIA NEVADA	$300,000
OUR VOICE OUR VOTE ARIZONA	$300,000
RURAL ARIZONA ACTION	$300,000
REPOWER	$300,000
ADVANCE NORTH CAROLINA INC	$300,000
MAKE THE ROAD ACTION INC	$300,000
LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA	$300,000
ORGANIZE PENNSYLVANIA DBA ONE PA	$300,000
CARE IN ACTION INC	$300,000
ASIAN AMERICAN ADVOCACY FUND INC	$250,000
EQUALITY FEDERATION	$235,000
PODER NC ACTION	$220,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS	$200,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $3.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

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.

Which US states its grants reach

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$31M · 65 repeat orgs$3.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against -4% for those funded once.

65 repeat relationships: 50 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$31M

$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

-4%

Still filing today

95%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationInternationalOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

TA
TIDES ADVOCACY
7× · 2018–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +130%
CF
CENTER FOR EMPOWERED POLITICS
5× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +817%
GI
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc
4× · 2020–2024 · $930k · revenue +232%

Funded once

PM
Progress Michigan Inc
one grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -27%
BM
BLACK MALE VOTER PROJECT
2× · 2020–2021 · $100k
AM
ALLIED MEDIA ACTION FUND
2× · 2020–2021 · $100k · revenue -56%

How this is measured

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

04Its 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.

Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement

Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights

Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture

America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement

New American Leaders Action Fund Inc

New american leaders action fund (nalaf) is building a democracy that represents and includes all people by engaging new voters, supporting new americans as they run for office, and expanding civic engagement.

Civil Rights

Black in Action Collective

Black in Action Collective exists to build Black political power to transform systems and radically reimagine what is possible for ourselves, our families, and our communities

Civil Rights

Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights

Power Coalition for Electoral Justice

We created the power coalition for electoral justice with our partners because this is a moment of opportunity; a time to dig in and become internationally strategic; in short, to use this movement to create a true paradigm shift. to plant…

Civil Rights

Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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Right to Democracy Action

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in u.s. territories, including by promoting civic engagement among the territorial diaspora throughout the united states.

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League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Leaders Igniting Transformation Action Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Avow Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 115 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

109/114

Grantees still filing

63/114

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Civil Rights$16,187,000Other$10,745,500Human Services$3,410,000Public Benefit$2,257,750Community Improvement$1,080,000International$550,000Education$202,000

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

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.

Way to Win Action Fund IncDC151.5× affinity73 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · America Votes · NEO Philanthropy Action Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Pro-Democracy Campaign · State Engagement Fund · North Fund · The Heising-Simons Action Fund

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 Donors Network Action funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women Donors Network Action. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home