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Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$658k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentCrime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesOther
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
FY2024still arriving3$50k0%
FY20236$60k50%
FY20224$50k0%
FY20216$30k67%
FY20202$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$109kEducation$55kEmployment$23kEnvironment$15kHuman Services$14k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($11k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetApprentice Learning Inc: $66,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetPenikese Island School Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetScience Club for Girls Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $22,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBoston Debate League Incorporated: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMediagirls Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetThe Hurricane Island Foundation: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWomen's Money Matters Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 8.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Cambridge Community Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)

How much does Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) give?
Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) reported 3 grants totaling $50,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (51%), Education (26%), Employment (10%).
Who are Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Apprentice Learning Inc ($67k), Penikese Island School Inc ($35k), Science Club for Girls Inc ($25k).
Does Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) based?
Women4progress (Fka Women's Initiative for Progress) is based in MA.

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-PF 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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