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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.

$853k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $62,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $853,354 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $790,854 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 · FY2022

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC HASTINGS FOUNDATION$25,000
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$25,000
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE$6,250
ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT$6,250
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 (FY19–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT: $6k → 17%PROMUNDO: $773 → 14%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.

Grants abroad, by region: $130k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 3 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$63k · 48% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SEXUAL & REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH · GLOBAL CAMPAIGN

South Asia$36k · 28% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: GLOBAL CAMPAIGN

South America$31k · 24% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: SOCIAL INCLUSION

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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
Washington Office On Latin America

To advance human rights and social justice in the americas.

International
2
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
3
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
4
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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5
Women's Link Worldwide

A legal organization working to advance the rights of women, girls, and gender diverse people. We work on issues of reproductive rights, gender-based violence, climate, and racial justice in East Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the…

Civil Rights
6
The Advocates for Human Rights

To promote and protect human rights in the United States and around the world.

International
7
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc

UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have inherent…

International
8
Center for Justice and International Law

To contribute to the full enjoyment of human rights in the americas through effective use of the tools of the inter-american system and international human rights law

Crime & Legal
9
Justice Without Borders

To create transnational access to legal assistance for victims of labour exploitation and human trafficking so that they can seek rightful compensation, even after returning home.

International
10
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc

Irap is a global legal aid and advocacy organization working to create a world where refugees and all people seeking safety are empowered to claim their right to freedom of movement and a path to lasting refuge. everyone should have a safe…

Human Services
11
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…

Human Services
12
Shift Project Ltd

At Shift, we have one purpose: to transform how business gets done in order to ensure respect for peoples lives and dignity. We believe that the best way to advance our mission is by working directly with Businesses to help shape their…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights First; the most unlike its peers is Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Jus. 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.

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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Save The Children Federation Inc: $131,986 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $45,172 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST: $25,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRSTLATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP EDUCATION FUND: $11,862 · InternationalLATIN AMERICA WORKING GROUP EDUCATION FUND+1 more: $6,250 · InternationalJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $107,612 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUC LAW SF FOUNDATION: $25,000 · EducationUC LAW SF FOUNDATIONASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $6,250 · Human ServicesEQUIMUNDO CENTER FOR MASCULINITIES AND SOCIAL JUS: $773 · Human Services
International$220,270Education$132,612Human Services$7,023

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 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
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.

National Philanthropic TrustPA10.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Refugee Commission Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Refugee Commission Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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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 →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report 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 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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