Illinois · Public charity
Women Employed
To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.
- $256k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $176k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,175
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $54,375
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.8M
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2024 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institute for Latino Progress | $54,375 | 2 | 0% |
| Rush University Medical Center | $54,375 | 1 | 0% |
| Esperanza Health Centers | $54,375 | 2 | 0% |
| Health and Medicine Policy Research Group | $54,375 | 2 | 1% |
| Erie Neighborhood House | $26,800 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Changing Lives | $8,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Kan-Win | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Apna Ghar Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Life-Span | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| YWCA Metropolitan Chicago | $5,750 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Women Employed supplied at peak.
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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: United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Lloyd a Fry Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Polk Bros Foundation Inc · Chicago Foundation for Women · Circle of Service Foundation · Visiting Nurse Association of Chicago (Aka) Vna Foundation · Healthy Communities Foundation · Michael Reese Health Trust · Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership · Unidosus · Arie and Ida Crown Memorial
How this is measured
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About Women Employed
- How much does Women Employed give?
- Women Employed reported 7 itemized grants totaling $175,600, out of $256,415 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing.
- What does Women Employed fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2024 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (59%), Human Services (21%), Employment (17%).
- Who are Women Employed's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2024 to FY2025: Institute for Latino Progress ($54k), Rush University Medical Center ($54k), Esperanza Health Centers ($54k).
- Which funders back the same organizations as Women Employed?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc, Lloyd a Fry Foundation, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Women Employed based?
- Women Employed is based in IL.
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