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Women's Public Leadership Network Inc

To provide women with the knowledge and resources to make seeking public office and engaging in the political process more accessible.

$446k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
9
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $429,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $445,500 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,500 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 · FY2020

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $66k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $363k
$60,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VIRGINIA CONSERVATIVE WOMEN'S COALITION$63,000
CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION$60,000
COLORADO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$60,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC$60,000
RISE NEW MEXICO INC$60,000
POCKETBOOK PROJECT INC$60,000
SHE HOLDS THE KEY INC$16,500
COLORADO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE$16,500
VOTEHER INC$16,500
LOUISIANA WOMEN LEAD$16,500
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%POCKETBOOK PROJECT INC: $60k → 16%CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION: $60k → 11%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $60k → 10%SHE HOLDS THE KEY INC: $17k → 16%VOTEHER INC: $17k → 8%COLORADO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE: $17k → 7%COLORADO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $60k → 7%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
MA
CA
CO
VA
NM
LA
GA
TX
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
03the grantee network

5 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

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 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 5 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
4/5
Grantees still filing
1/5
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VIRGINIA CONSERVATIVE WOMEN'S COALITION: $63,000 · OtherVIRGINIA CONSERVATIVE WOMEN'S COALITIONCOLORADO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $60,000 · OtherCOLORADO WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATIONTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INCRISE NEW MEXICO INC: $60,000 · OtherRISE NEW MEXICO INCCALIFORNIA WOMENS LEADERSHIP ASSOC: $60,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA WOMENS LEADERSHIP ASSOCCOLORADO WOMENS ALLIANCE: $16,500 · OtherSHE HOLDS THE KEY INC: $16,500 · OtherLOUISIANA WOMEN LEAD: $16,500 · OtherVOTEHER INC: $16,500 · OtherPOCKETBOOK PROJECT INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsPOCKETBOOK PROJ…
Other$369,000Civil Rights$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOLORADO WOMENS ALLIANCE: $16,500 over 1y, 18% of budgetLOUISIANA WOMEN LEAD: $16,500 over 1y, 53% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Women's Public Leadership Network Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Public Leadership Network Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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