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Women's Professional Forum Foundation Inc

The foundation is dedicated to creating opportunities for women and girls to achieve their leadership and professional dreams.

$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its 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, FY2020 to 2024.

Community Improvement$23kEmployment$19kCivil Rights$19kHuman Services$6kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $19,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $28,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,750 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.
$9,625
Median grant
1
States reached
$672k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SISTERS CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL$9,625
WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$9,625
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 (FY21–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 16%NEW ARRIVALS INSTITUTE INC: $6k → 16%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 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
North Carolina Empowerment Organization
Civil Rights
2
Community Industry Value Interactionist League

NC CIVIL is a nonprofit community impact organization that develops grassroots approaches to structural disparities. Our mission is to increase resident involvement, improve organization of resources, and help institutions partner…

Youth Development
3
Durham Success Summit Inc

Career access to every young black man

Public Benefit
4
Community Success Institute

Community Success Institute is an organization focused on building human and operational capacity in at-risk and underserved communities in America. The institute takes a multi-pronged approach to this issue-developing human capital…

Education
5
WomenNC-Nc Committee for Csw-Cedaw

Women NC empowers youth leaders to advance gender equity in North Carolina through research, advocacy, and mentorship. Our program equips students with the tools to analyze gender disparities and propose policy solutions. Together, we're…

Education
6
North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law
Crime & Legal
7
Nc Local Inc

Expands local news across North Carolina

Civil Rights
8
Dress for Success Winston-Salem

To empower women to economic independence by providing free attire and workforce development training.

Human Services
9
Community Building Initiative

The mission of Community Building Initiative (CBI) is to give people and organizations the knowledge, skills and courage to fight bias, remove barriers to opportunity and build a more equitable and just CharlotteMecklenburg. CBI envisions…

Community Improvement
10
Carolina Teen Center

Carolina Teen Center is a prevention and education year-round after-school and summer program that services youth and their families. Literacy programs, tutoring, life skills, mentoring, positive peer groups, conflict resolution skills,…

Health
11
Black Girls Cook

Black Girls Cook aims to empower and inspire inner-city adolescent Black girls through food security, culinary arts, urban farming, entrepreneurship, and STEM, emphasizing Black Diaspora cultural histories and food practices.

Food & Nutrition
12
The School for Global Thinkers

Our mission is to challenge and nurture young women to thrive in future global markets through personalized STEM advanced academics. Through a supportive small school and single-gender environment, project-based learning, and STEM advanced…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Greensboro; the most unlike its peers is New Arrivals Institute 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE SISTER CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL: $9,625 · Community ImprovementTHE SISTER CIRCLE INTERNATIONALACTION GREENSBORO: $7,000 · Community ImprovementACTION GREENSBOROTHE NUSSBAUM CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NUSSBAUM CENTER FOR ENTREPRE…Womens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc: $9,625 · Human ServicesWomens Resource Center…NEW ARRIVALS INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesNEW ARRIVALS INSTITUTE…UNCG CENTER FOR NEW NC: $10,000 · OtherUNCG CENTER FOR NEW NCCommunities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc: $5,600 · OtherCommunities in Schools…The Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Beloved Commun…NORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC: $6,000 · Civil RightsBOUNDLESS IMPACT: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Community Improvement$22,625Human Services$15,625Other$15,600Recreation & Sports$13,000Civil Rights$6,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Beloved Community Center of Greensboro Inc: $13,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWomens Resource Center of Greensboro Inc: $9,625 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SISTER CIRCLE INTERNATIONAL: $9,625 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetACTION GREENSBORO: $7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NUSSBAUM CENTER FOR ENTREPRENEURSHIP INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ARRIVALS INSTITUTE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA FOR COMMUNITY AND JUSTICE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCommunities in Schools of Greater Greensboro Inc: $5,600 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Tannenbaum-Sternberge…United Way of Greater…The Cemala Foundation…Moses Cone - Wesley L…Community Foundation …Truist Foundation IncLincoln Financial Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation IncNC15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tannenbaum-Sternberger Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Greensboro Inc · The Cemala Foundation Inc · Moses Cone - Wesley Long Community Health Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Truist Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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's Professional Forum Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Professional Forum Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%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
    5report 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 10 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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