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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 FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$21k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its 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 2025.

Human Services$901kYouth Development$285kHousing & Shelter$276kFood & Nutrition$251kHealth$159kEmployment$146kEducation$145kCommunity Improvement$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $286,069, the rows itemized in this filing. The $381,448 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,379 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $280k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thrive International$21,010
Partners with Families & Children$21,000
YWCA$20,000
Joya Child & Family Development$20,000
Women's Healing and Empowerment Network$20,000
Maddie's Place$20,000
Women & Children's Free Restaurant$20,000
Lumen Public School$20,000
Vanessa Behan$20,000
Volunteers of America Eastern Washington$20,000
Manzanita House$15,000
Embrace Washington$15,000
Family Promise of Spokane$15,000
Shades of Motherhood Network$13,000
PEPP Spokane$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Thrive International: $21k → 12%Catholic Charities Eastern Washington: $20k → 12%Catholic Charities Eastern Washington: $20k → 12%Embrace Washington: $15k → 12%Project Beauty Share: $12k → 12%Project Beauty Share: $10k → 12%Embrace Washington: $10k → 12%SNAP Financial Access: $20k → 12%MIA Mujeres in Action: $15k → 12%YWCA: $25k → 12%YWCA Spokane: $20k → 12%YWCA SPOKANE: $20k → 12%YWCA Spokane: $20k → 12%YWCA Spokane: $15k → 12%YWCA: $15k → 12%YWCA of Spokane: $10k → 12%Project Beauty Share: $10k → 12%Lutheran Community Services Northwest: $9k → 12%TRANSITIONS: $24k → 12%Transitions: $20k → 12%Transitions: $20k → 12%Transitions: $19k → 12%Transitions: $15k → 12%Transitions: $15k → 12%Spokane Valley Partners: $20k → 12%TRANSITIONAL PROGRAMS FOR WOMEN DBA TRANSITIONS: $15k → 12%Spokane Valley Partners: $20k → 12%Spokane Valley Partners: $12k → 12%SPOKANE VALLEY PARTNERS: $10k → 12%Transitions: $10k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 36 repeat orgs$415k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
21

Total granted

$1.9M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+13%

Still filing today

92%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $135k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalHealthEmploymentOther
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

  • WC
    Women & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen
    9× · 2017–2025 · $168k · revenue +159%
  • T
    Transitions
    8× · 2017–2024 · $138k · revenue +12%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $125k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • NY
    Northeast Youth and Family Services
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • SN
    SPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -30%
  • CA
    Compassionate Addiction Treatmentgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +44%
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.

1
Spokane Area Workforce Development Council

The SWC mobilizes partnerships, data-driven innovation,and strategic investment to build an equitable workforce ecosystem where every individual can access opportunity, every business can find talent, and every community can thrive.

Community Improvement
2
Southwest Youth and Family Services

SWYFS partners with youth and families to transform their futures.

Human Services
3
Family Promise of Cowlitz County

To help families with children in our community who are situationally homeless achieve sustainable independence through a community based response by providing temporary housing, usually 60-90 days, along with case management.

Human Services
4
Brightspark Early Learning Services

To nurture and sustain child-centered, antiracist early learning communities.Our work is to:1) Help families access high quality childcare and after-school care.2) Increase the availability of high-quality care through coaching and…

Human Services
5
Sage Indigenous Law Center

Sage Indigenous Law Center's mission is to provide culturally grounded civil legal aid that protects the rights of Native American parents, children, and communities, while advancing justice and addressing systemic inequities.

Crime & Legal
6
The Source of Spokane

To provide youth at risk due with housing and opportunities for personal growth, education, spiritual growth, job skill training from a christian worldview

Youth Development
7
Read Northwest

Read Northwest exists to elevate Early Childhood Literacy in Southwest Washington.

Education
8
Home Court Nw
Recreation & Sports
9
Recovery Cafe Skagit

Provide a safe, healing, and restorative community that empowers long-term transformation through human connection for those recovering from the trauma of homelessness, addictions, and mental health challenges.

Education
10
Refugee Care Collective Northwest

Provide care to refugee families.

Human Services
11
Salish School of Spokane

Dynamic Salish language revitalization powering cultural renewal and building a stronger, healthier community.

Education
12
Skagit Preschool and Resource Center

Programs for children with special needs from birth to six. sparc offers opportunities for family education, participation and support so that familiies may become more knowledgeable about their childs needs and goals are are better able…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Spokane; the most unlike its peers is Create Your Statement. 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

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 67 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/63
Grantees still filing
43/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Transitions: $137,500 · Human ServicesTransitionsYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $125,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASS…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $107,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOK…PARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST: $82,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWESTPROJECT BEAUTY SHARE: $32,000 · Human ServicesPROJECT BEAUTY SHAREEMBRACE WASHINGTON: $25,000 · Human ServicesThrive International: $21,010 · Human ServicesSPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS: $20,000 · Human Services+2 more: $23,911 · Human ServicesWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen: $167,500 · OtherWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Comm…THE SALVATION ARMY: $90,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYYoung Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest: $45,000 · OtherUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE: $40,500 · OtherWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $37,500 · OtherSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center: $37,500 · OtherFamily Promise of Spokane: $79,000 · OtherFamily Promise of SpokaneSpark Central: $30,000 · OtherHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $30,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $49,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWESTInnovia Foundation: $65,000 · OtherInnovia FoundationSNAP FINANCIAL ACCESS: $30,000 · Other+13 more: $187,868 · Other+13 moreVANESSA BEHAN: $120,500 · Crime & LegalVANESSA BEHANPartners with Families and Children Spokane: $94,120 · Crime & LegalPartners with …CREATE YOUR STATEMENT: $36,000 · Crime & LegalCREATE YOUR ST…SPOKANE REGIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALITION: $25,000 · Crime & LegalSPOKANE REGION…WOMEN'S HEALING AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK (WHEN): $20,000 · Crime & LegalWOMEN'S HEALIN…+1 more: $6,059 · Crime & LegalOLIVE CREST: $65,000 · HealthOLIVE CRE…HIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $65,000 · HealthHIP OF SP…MADDIE'S PLACE: $20,000 · HealthMADDIE'S …Compassionate Addiction Treatment: $20,000 · HealthCompassio…DAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 · HealthDAYBREAK …PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO: $12,500 · HealthPLANNED P…Lumen Public School: $55,000 · EducationSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $32,500 · EducationSPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE: $18,000 · EducationNuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices: $15,000 · EducationTeen Closet: $15,000 · EducationRaze Development: $14,000 · EducationThe Shades of Motherhood Network: $13,000 · EducationCORPORATION OF GONZAGA UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationNortheast Youth Center: $32,000 · Youth DevelopmentTREEHOUSE: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentNortheast Youth and Family Services: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG LIFE: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentMorning Star Boys Ranch: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP FIRE: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBoys & Girls Club of Spokane County: $10,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentFeast Collective: $58,000 · EmploymentASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OPEN-SHOP APPRENTICESHIP AND JOURNEYMAN TRAINING: $33,000 · EmploymentCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING: $30,000 · EmploymentPre-Employment Preparation Program: $10,000 · Employment
Human Services$573,421Other$889,368Crime & Legal$301,679Health$202,500Education$172,500Youth Development$153,000Employment$131,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWomen & Children's Free Restaurant & Community Kitchen: $167,500 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetTransitions: $137,500 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $125,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetVANESSA BEHAN: $120,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SPOKANE: $107,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPartners with Families and Children Spokane: $94,120 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS INLAND NORTHWEST: $82,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFamily Promise of Spokane: $79,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetInnovia Foundation: $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIP OF SPOKANE COUNTY DBA COMMUNITY MINDED ENTERPRISES: $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFeast Collective: $58,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLumen Public School: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSECOND HARVEST INLAND NORTHWEST: $49,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of the Inland Northwest: $45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST CENTRAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOC: $37,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSpokane Guilds' School & Neuromuscular Center: $37,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCREATE YOUR STATEMENT: $36,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OPEN-SHOP APPRENTICESHIP AND JOURNEYMAN TRAINING: $33,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSPOKANE COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $32,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT BEAUTY SHARE: $32,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetNortheast Youth Center: $32,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTREEHOUSE: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSpark Central: $30,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCAREER PATH SERVICES EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANITIES WASHINGTON: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSNAP FINANCIAL ACCESS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetA REFUGE TRAUMA INFORMED THERAPIES: $25,868 over 2y, 27% of budgetSPOKANE REGIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COALITION: $25,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetNortheast Youth and Family Services: $25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetEMBRACE WASHINGTON: $25,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetYOUNG LIFE: $21,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMorning Star Boys Ranch: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMADDIE'S PLACE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSPOKANE NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PARTNERS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Addiction Treatment: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDAYBREAK YOUTH SERVICES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSPOKANE HEARING ORAL PROGRAM OF EXCELLENCE HOPE: $18,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetRIVER CITY YOUTH: $15,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNuestras Raices Centro Comunitario DBA Nuestras Raices: $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNAMI SPOKANE: $15,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTeen Closet: $15,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMIA MUJERES IN ACTION: $14,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRaze Development: $14,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetODYSSEY YOUTH CENTER: $13,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER WASHINGTON AND NORTH IDAHO: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMP FIRE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Innovia FoundationThe Avista FoundationMulticare Health Syst…Providence Health & S…Numerica Credit UnionBetter Health TogetherSmith-Barbieri Progre…United Way of Spokane…Project Beauty ShareSchool's Out Washingt…First Interstate Banc…Empire Health Foundat…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%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
    32report 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 67 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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