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Womens Funding Alliance

Women's Funding Alliance advances leadership and economic opportunity for women and girls in Washington State.

$93k
Granted FY2019
1
Grants FY2019
1
States reached
$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Community Improvement$408kPublic Benefit$80kYouth Development$77kEducation$67kHuman Services$23kArts & Culture$7kEnvironment$7kInternational$7kOther$0
02FY2019 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $45,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $93,492 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $48,492 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$45,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WSU - Spokane$45,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

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Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YWCA of Clark County: $15k → 9%La Casa Hogar: $15k → 17%Powerful Voices: $7k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Girls Incorporated of Washington County

The mission of girls inc. of washington county is to inspire all girls to grow up strong, smart and bold.

Youth Development
2
Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast

To inspire all girls to be strong, smart, and bold and to respect themselves and the world around them.Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast offers a constellation of programs that deliver innovative, multi-faceted activities designed to…

Youth Development
3
Girl Scouts of Eastern Washington and Northern Idaho

To build girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
4
Girls On the Run - Dc

Girls on the Run-DC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization with the mission of inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
5
Girls on the Run of the Grand Valley

An inclusive and empowering enrichment program for young girls to learn whole-body health & foundational life skills through curriculum, utilizing Positive Youth Development and Social Emotional Learning strategies, while incorporating…

Recreation & Sports
6
Girls on the Run of Los Angeles County

Our organization inspires and empowers girls in grades 3-8 through a program that combines physical activity with social-emotional learning. Participants build confidence, develop life skills, and foster healthy habits while training for…

Youth Development
7
Girls Incorporated of San Antonio

Girls Inc. inspires all girls to be strong, smart, and bold. Our comprehensive approach to whole girl development equips girls to navigate gender, economic, and social barriers and grow up healthy, educated, and independent.

Human Services
8
King County Play Equity Coalition

King County Play Equity Coalition is a network of organizations dedicated to challenging and changing systems to shift power and center physical activity as a key part of health and youth development.

Youth Development
9
Girls On the Run - Chicago Inc

The organization is a nonprofit after school program that uses the power of running to teach girls, 3rd-8th grade, critical social emotional learning skills.

Recreation & Sports
10
Girls On the Run Southeast Washington

Educate girls for lifetime of self-respect and healthy living

Youth Development
11
Girls on the Run of Nova

Girls on the Run of Northern Virginia (GOTR NOVA) is a non-profit 501(c)3 Organization with a mission of inspiring girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.

Youth Development
12
Washington Ethnic Studies Now

Washington Ethnic Studies Now WAESN is a multigenerational majority POC-led nonprofit advancing Ethnic Studies and racial justice in Washington. We center people of color build youth-centered leadership and learning and organize…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls On the Run of Snohomish County and the most unlike its peers is Na'ah Illahee Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 18 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%60%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr13%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr18%76%20–35yr12%4%35–55yr13%2%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/23
the rest of the field
13%
2,226/16,741

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
17/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND — $394,673 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE FUNDWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY — $95,628 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERS…RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY — $17,000 · OtherRUTGERS THE STATE UNIVER…YWCA of Olympia — $8,700 · OtherYWCA of OlympiaReel Grrls — $6,700 · OtherNa'ah Illahee Fund — $6,700 · OtherRAIN CITY ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS — $6,700 · OtherGirls on the Run Puget Sound — $6,700 · OtherLA CASA HOGAR — $15,000 · Human ServicesYWCA CLARK COUNTY — $14,500 · Human ServicesPowerful Voices — $6,700 · Human ServicesMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $6,000 · Human ServicesYou Grow Girl — $6,700 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SPOKANE COUNTY — $6,700 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $6,700 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG WOMEN EMPOWERED — $6,700 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA — $6,700 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN OF WESTSOUND — $6,700 · Youth DevelopmentCASA LATINA — $10,000 · EducationTechbridge Girls — $6,700 · EducationWILD WHATCOM — $6,700 · EducationWashington Progress Fund — $20,000 · PhilanthropyPUGET SOUND SAGE — $13,000 · Social Science
Community Improvement$394,673Other$148,128Human Services$42,200Youth Development$40,200Education$23,400Philanthropy$20,000Social Science$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND — $394,673 over 2y, 93% of budgetWashington Progress Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLA CASA HOGAR — $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetYWCA CLARK COUNTY — $14,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPUGET SOUND SAGE — $13,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCASA LATINA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA of Olympia — $8,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPowerful Voices — $6,700 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SPOKANE COUNTY — $6,700 over 1y, 17% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY — $6,700 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTechbridge Girls — $6,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAIN CITY ROCK CAMP FOR GIRLS — $6,700 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGirls on the Run Puget Sound — $6,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWILD WHATCOM — $6,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE OLYMPIC PENINSULA — $6,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARY'S PLACE SEATTLE — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Seattle FoundationSchool's Out Washingt…The Norcliffe Foundat…Puget Sound Energy Fo…The Satterberg Founda…Philanthropy NorthwestInatai FoundationUnited Way of King Co…ArtsfundImpactassetsincGates FoundationWashington Women's Fo…
Seattle FoundationWA26.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · School's Out Washington · The Norcliffe Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · Philanthropy Northwest · Inatai Foundation · United Way of King County · Artsfund · Impactassetsinc · Gates Foundation · Washington Women's Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Womens Funding Alliance funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2021) is on record and reports $271k 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 FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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