How much did WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN grant in FY2025?

WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN reported 27 grants totaling $494,760 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN based?

WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN is based in MA.

WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN

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· Public charity

WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN

The women's fund raises funds and commissions the latest research, leverages our convening power, and our knowledge of local and national efforts toward gender equity and empowerment to invest in the community and advance women and girls.

$495k

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$100k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

culturally

2020

educationoppressionsafeadvocacysurvivorsdomesticcare

2021

children'spregnancymedicalfoodendcrisisbuild

2023

reproductiveadultsservesbarrierseveryonegender-diversekids

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k9 grants · $63k
$10k–50k17 grants · $299k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k

$11,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

UMASS CENTER FOR RESEARCH ON FAMILIES$100,000
ARISE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE$45,000
HEARTWING CENTER$45,000
PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER$26,000
VISIONING BEAR$16,000
SOMALI BANTU COMMUNITY OF SPRINGFIELD$16,000
MAKE IT SPRINGFIELD$16,000
ROCA INC$16,000
WOMEN OF COLOR HEALTH EQUITY COLLECTIVE$16,000
NELCWIT$15,000
BERKSHIRE COMMUNITY DIAPER PROJECT$15,000
PARENT VILLAGES INC$11,000
DRESS FOR SUCCESS WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS$11,000
NEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL$11,000
CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS$10,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $214k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 98% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$664k · 13 repeat orgs$542k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$664k

$255k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%

+182%

Still filing today

85%

92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $287k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsArts & CultureOther

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

1D
18 DEGREES INC
2× · 2020–2023 · $82k · revenue +37%
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID
2× · 2023–2025 · $60k · revenue +181%
PV
PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER
3× · 2021–2025 · $46k · revenue +93%

Funded once

VF
VOICES FROM INSIDE
one grant, 2021 · $20k
CA
COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEYgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +53%
TH
TAPESTRY HEALTHgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +44%

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

04Your field

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.

Worcester Community Action Council Inc

Helping people move to economic self-sufficiency through programs, partnerships, and advocacy.

Human Services

Women's Information Service Inc

Wise leads the upper valley to end gender-based violence through survivor-centered advocacy, prevention, education, and mobilization for social change. wise serves 23 communities in the northern new england counties of grafton (nh),…

Human Services

Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to ending and preventing domestic violence.

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Voices Against Violence

To break the cycle of violence by providing comprehensive services for all victims and survivors and by creating social change through education and action.

Human Services

Central Vermont Habitat for

Construction of low income housing

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Riverside Community Care Inc

We make a difference through innovative & compassionate behavioral healthcare & human services.

Health

Upper Valley Comm Health Services Inc

Medical, Dental, Behavioral Health and Pharmacy

Health

East End House Inc

Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.

Human Services

Massachusetts Affordable Housing

Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

Energy Action Network Inc

Energy action network (ean) works to achieve vermonts climate and energy commitments in ways that create a more just, thriving, and sustainable future for vermonters.

Environment

Watch Inc

Watch cdc works towards a more just community in the waltham area by promoting affordable housing, providing adult education, assistance with housing and basic needs and job search support through drop-in clinics, case management, and…

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The Birth Center

Provides gynecologic, pregnancy, & birth health care services, using a midwifery model of care

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Western New England University. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/57

the rest of the field

410/4,817

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.

05the grantee network

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

49/50

Grantees still filing

50/50

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$730,125Human Services$262,331Crime & Legal$60,000Environment$49,900Education$42,800Health$34,800Arts & Culture$26,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of WesternMA46.4× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Western · The Beveridge Family Foundation · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire · Health New England Inc · Berkshire United Way Inc · Berkshire Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community · Boston Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · The Food Bank of Western · Health Resources in Action Inc · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin

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 organisation WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

14get no government money at all

8rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ROOT STUDIO INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing; revenue up 2.4× since.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 823580865 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ROOT STUDIO INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 24% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Women's Fund of Western?

Find your warmest path to Women's Fund of Western through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Women's Fund of Western?

More from the funding graph

WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

50 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Women's Fund of Western?

More from the funding graph