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Womens Empowerment International

Womens Empowerment funds econcomic empowerment programs including small business loans, training, education, and other vital poverty alleviation strategies for women experiencing poverty. More on Schedule O.

$227k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
6
Itemized grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
50%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$90k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$43,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$182k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Womens Empowerment International funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EmploymentOther
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
FY2025still arriving6$90k50%
FY20242$60k50%
FY20232$54k0%
FY20223$64k33%
FY20213$100k0%
FY20204$101kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$300kHuman Services$63kHousing & Shelter$37kEmployment$30kScience & Tech$17kFood & Nutrition$13kPublic Benefit$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Rescue Committee INC$203,20040%
International Rescue Committee San Diego$88,5002n/a
Dreams for Change Inc$62,50033%
Proyecto Matria Inc$37,00022%
Urban Corps of San Diego County$30,00040%
San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation$16,70020%
Farmer to Farmer Inc$13,00012%
Tipey Joa Native Warriors$10,00016%
Rooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands$8,00017%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Womens Empowerment International supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $203,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDreams for Change Inc: $62,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetProyecto Matria Inc: $37,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUrban Corps of San Diego County: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSan Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation: $16,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFarmer to Farmer Inc: $13,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTipey Joa Native Warriors: $10,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetRooted Wisdom Africa Into Your Hands: $8,000 over 1y, 7.4% 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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: 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 Womens Empowerment International

How much does Womens Empowerment International give?
Womens Empowerment International reported 6 itemized grants totaling $90,000, out of $227,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Womens Empowerment International fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (64%), Human Services (13%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are Womens Empowerment International's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: International Rescue Committee INC ($203k), International Rescue Committee San Diego ($89k), Dreams for Change Inc ($63k).
Does Womens Empowerment International fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Empowerment International?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Womens Empowerment International based?
Womens Empowerment International is based in CA.

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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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