How much does Women Helping Women Fund give?

Women Helping Women Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $286,069, out of $381,448 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Women Helping Women Fund fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Youth Development (12%), Housing & Shelter (11%).

Who are Women Helping Women Fund's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen ($168k), Transitions ($138k), Young Womens Christian Association ($125k).

Does Women Helping Women Fund fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Women Helping Women Fund?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, The Avista Foundation, Multicare Health System.

Where is Women Helping Women Fund based?

Women Helping Women Fund is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

Women Helping Women Fund

Empowering Spokane area women and children to achieve their fullest potential, by building a strong, diverse community of educated, engaged, and strategic givers.

$381k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 17
Itemized grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 28%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $286k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $21,010
Organizations funded a year: 11 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.2M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Women Helping Women Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentReligionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$286k	53%
FY2024	18	$311k	28%
FY2023	18	$297k	11%
FY2022	19	$291k	37%
FY2021	18	$311k	56%
FY2020	11	$159k	36%
FY2019	15	$225k	27%
FY2018	17	$254k	29%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$901kYouth Development$285kHousing & Shelter$276kFood & Nutrition$251kHealth$159kEmployment$146kEducation$145kCommunity Improvement$95kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen	$167,500	9	2%
Transitions	$137,500	8	1%
Young Womens Christian Association	$125,000	7	0%
Vanessa Behan	$120,500	7	1%
Catholic Charities of Spokane	$107,000	5	0%
Partners with Families and Children Spokane	$94,120	6	1%
The Salvation Army	$90,000	4	n/a
Partners Inland Northwest	$82,000	6	0%
Family Promise of Spokane	$79,000	3	2%
Olive Crest	$65,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Women Helping Women Fund by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen	$167,500	9	2%
Transitions	$137,500	8	1%
Young Womens Christian Association	$125,000	7	0%
Vanessa Behan	$120,500	7	1%
Catholic Charities of Spokane	$107,000	5	0%
Partners with Families and Children Spokane	$94,120	6	1%
The Salvation Army	$90,000	4	n/a
Partners Inland Northwest	$82,000	6	0%
Family Promise of Spokane	$79,000	3	2%
Olive Crest	$65,000	3	0%
Hip of Spokane County Dba Community Minded Enterprises	$65,000	3	0%
Feast Collective	$58,000	3	2%
Lumen Public School	$55,000	3	1%
Second Harvest Inland Northwest	$49,500	4	0%
Young Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest	$45,000	2	0%
United States Catholic Conference	$40,500	2	n/a
West Central Community Development Assoc	$37,500	3	1%
Spokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center	$37,500	2	0%
Create Your Statement	$36,000	4	9%
Associated General Contractors Open-Shop Apprenticeship and Journeyman Training	$33,000	2	3%
Spokane Colleges Foundation	$32,500	3	1%
Project Beauty Share	$32,000	3	4%
Northeast Youth Center	$32,000	3	1%
Treehouse	$30,000	3	0%
Spark Central	$30,000	2	4%
Career Path Services Employment and Training	$30,000	2	0%
Humanities Washington	$30,000	3	1%
Snap Financial Access	$30,000	2	0%
A Refuge Trauma Informed Therapies	$25,868	2	27%
Spokane Regional Domestic Violence Coalition	$25,000	2	6%
Northeast Youth and Family Services	$25,000	1	8%
Embrace Washington	$25,000	2	3%
Inland Northwest Farmers Market Association	$23,500	2	n/a
Thrive International	$21,010	1	n/a
Young Life	$21,000	2	0%
Women's Healing and Empowerment Network (When)	$20,000	1	n/a
Volunteers of America Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Morning Star Boys Ranch	$20,000	2	0%
Maddie's Place	$20,000	1	0%
Spokane Neighborhood Action Partners	$20,000	1	0%
Compassionate Addiction Treatment	$20,000	1	1%
Daybreak Youth Services	$20,000	1	0%
Spokane Hearing Oral Program of Excellence Hope	$18,000	2	2%
Manzanita House	$15,000	1	n/a
River City Youth	$15,000	1	6%
Nuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices	$15,000	1	1%
Nami Spokane	$15,000	1	5%
Teen Closet	$15,000	1	18%
Mia Mujeres in Action	$14,500	1	1%
Raze Development	$14,000	1	2%
Odyssey Youth Center	$13,500	2	2%
The Shades of Motherhood Network	$13,000	1	n/a
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho	$12,500	1	0%
Camp Fire Inland Northwest	$10,000	1	1%
Pre-Employment Preparation Program	$10,000	1	n/a
Camp Fire	$10,000	1	0%
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$10,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Club of Spokane County	$10,000	1	n/a
Spokane Guilds' School Foundation	$10,000	1	2%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Inland Northwest	$10,000	1	2%
The Arc of Spokane	$10,000	1	0%
Naomi Community Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Lutheran Community Services Northwest	$9,411	1	0%
The Jonah Project	$6,059	1	5%
Girls on the Run of Spokane County	$5,000	1	13%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Women Helping Women Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 54.

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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.

Innovia FoundationWA86.8× affinity50 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Innovia Foundation · The Avista Foundation · Multicare Health System · Providence Health & Services - Washington · Numerica Credit Union · Better Health Together · Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund a Charitable Foundation · United Way of Spokane County · Project Beauty Share · School's Out Washington · First Interstate BancSystem Foundation Inc · Empire Health 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.

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About Women Helping Women Fund

How much does Women Helping Women Fund give?: Women Helping Women Fund reported 17 itemized grants totaling $286,069, out of $381,448 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Women Helping Women Fund fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Youth Development (12%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
Who are Women Helping Women Fund's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen ($168k), Transitions ($138k), Young Womens Christian Association ($125k).
Does Women Helping Women Fund fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Women Helping Women Fund?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Innovia Foundation, The Avista Foundation, Multicare Health System.
Where is Women Helping Women Fund based?: Women Helping Women Fund is based in WA.