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Women's Refugee Commission Inc

To improve the lives and protect the rights of women, children and youth displaced by conflict and crisis. The women's refugee commission envisions a world in which refugees are safe, healthy and reliant and seeks to drive change in humanitarian practice.

$853k
Granted FY2022
4
Itemized grants FY2022
4
Organizations funded FY2022
100%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$63k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2018 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
3
Total assets, FY2022
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Women's Refugee Commission Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’21’22
InternationalHuman ServicesEducation
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20224$63k100%
FY20212$35k50%
FY20193$162k67%
FY20182$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2022.

International$177kHealth$108kCivil Rights$74k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Save The Children Federation Inc$131,98610%
Johns Hopkins University$107,61220%
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc$45,17220%
Uc Law Sf Foundation$25,00010%
Human Rights First$25,00010%
Latin America Working Group Education Fund$11,86212%
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc$6,25010%
Church World Service Inc$6,25010%
Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Jus$77310%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Women's Refugee Commission Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $131,986 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $107,612 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc: $45,172 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUc Law Sf Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHuman Rights First: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLatin America Working Group Education Fund: $11,862 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAsylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChurch World Service Inc: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Jus: $773 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 9.

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.

National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

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About Women's Refugee Commission Inc

How much does Women's Refugee Commission Inc give?
Women's Refugee Commission Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $62,500, out of $853,354 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
What does Women's Refugee Commission Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2022, its largest causes are International (49%), Health (30%), Civil Rights (21%).
Who are Women's Refugee Commission Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2022: Save The Children Federation Inc ($132k), Johns Hopkins University ($108k), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($45k).
Does Women's Refugee Commission Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Refugee Commission Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include National Philanthropic Trust, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Women's Refugee Commission Inc based?
Women's Refugee Commission Inc is based in NY.

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 9 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $130k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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