How much does Womens Funding Network give?

Womens Funding Network reported 7 itemized grants totaling $430,000, out of $578,254 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Womens Funding Network fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Human Services (23%), Social Science (10%).

Who are Womens Funding Network's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Women's Foundation of Alabama ($419k), Institute for Women's Policy Research ($360k), The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ($320k).

Does Womens Funding Network fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Funding Network?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aditi Foundation, New York Women's Foundation Inc, Ms Foundation for Women Inc.

Where is Womens Funding Network based?

Womens Funding Network is based in CA.

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Womens Funding Network

Our mission as a global alliance is to provide strategies, research, and resources that support the critical agency and influence of women's foundations and gender justice funders in the movement for equality, justice, and power for all.

$578k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 7
Itemized grants FY2024: 12
Organizations funded FY2023: 50%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $430k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 17; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 6
Total assets, FY2024: $5.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Womens Funding Network funded were first-time grantees, receiving 50% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $198k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesPhilanthropyCivil RightsEducationCommunity ImprovementPublic BenefitOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	5	$315k	40%
FY2023	12	$396k	50%
FY2022	1	$71k	0%
FY2021	8	$1.2M	13%
FY2020	17	$690k	88%
FY2019	2	$100k	0%
FY2018	4	$125k	50%
FY2017	2	$100k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$867kSocial Science$360kCivil Rights$299kPublic Benefit$40kArts & Culture$15k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Women's Foundation of Alabama	$419,200	7	5%
Institute for Women's Policy Research	$359,524	1	8%
The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona	$320,000	5	5%
Womens Foundation of Arkansas	$223,000	3	17%
Iowa Women's Foundation	$200,000	2	17%
Wny Women's Foundation Inc	$190,000	2	15%
Maine Womens Fund	$175,000	2	27%
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis	$160,000	2	3%
Womens Foundation of the South	$103,000	2	4%
Gender Justice Fund	$103,000	2	14%

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All grantees of Womens Funding Network by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Women's Foundation of Alabama	$419,200	7	5%
Institute for Women's Policy Research	$359,524	1	8%
The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona	$320,000	5	5%
Womens Foundation of Arkansas	$223,000	3	17%
Iowa Women's Foundation	$200,000	2	17%
Wny Women's Foundation Inc	$190,000	2	15%
Maine Womens Fund	$175,000	2	27%
Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis	$160,000	2	3%
Womens Foundation of the South	$103,000	2	4%
Gender Justice Fund	$103,000	2	14%
Cleveland Social Venture Partners	$93,000	2	12%
Women's Foundation of California	$75,000	1	1%
Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts Inc	$63,000	2	3%
Women's Fund of Central Ohio	$63,000	2	6%
Women's Fund of Rhode Island	$53,000	2	6%
Boston Women's Fund Inc	$53,000	2	6%
Women's Fund of Hawai'I	$50,000	1	11%
New York Women's Foundation Inc	$40,000	1	0%
The Fund for Women and Girls	$35,000	1	n/a
New Mexico Fund for Women and Girls	$35,000	1	3%
Fundacion De Mujeres En Puerto Rico	$33,000	1	2%
I Be Black Girl	$33,000	1	1%
The Western New York Foundation	$33,000	1	2%
Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc	$30,000	1	8%
Arizona Foundation for Women Inc	$30,000	1	18%
Washington Area Women's Foundation	$20,000	1	1%
Let It Ripple Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Civic Nation	$10,000	1	0%

Womens Funding Network supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 26.

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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.

Aditi FoundationSD30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aditi Foundation · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Novo Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Funding Network

How much does Womens Funding Network give?: Womens Funding Network reported 7 itemized grants totaling $430,000, out of $578,254 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Womens Funding Network fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (58%), Human Services (23%), Social Science (10%).
Who are Womens Funding Network's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Women's Foundation of Alabama ($419k), Institute for Women's Policy Research ($360k), The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona ($320k).
Does Womens Funding Network fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Funding Network?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aditi Foundation, New York Women's Foundation Inc, Ms Foundation for Women Inc.
Where is Womens Funding Network based?: Womens Funding Network is based in CA.