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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your 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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$2.2MHuman Services$867kSocial Science$360kCivil Rights$299kPublic Benefit$40kArts & Culture$15k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $430,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $578,254 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $148,254 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $390k
$60,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Womens Fund of CA$75,000
Gender Justice Fund$70,000
Womens Fdn of the South$70,000
Collaborate Cleveland$60,000
Grantmakers - Girls of Color$60,000
Womens Fund of CO$55,000
NY Womens Foundation$40,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Arizona Foundation For Women: $30k → 11%WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSET: $33k → 17%Chester County Fund for Women and Girl: $35k → 6%Gender Justice Fund: $70k → 22%Women's Fund of Hawaii: $50k → 9%The WNY Women's Foundation INC: $130k → 13%NY Womens Foundation: $40k → 17%Washington Area Women's Foundation: $20k → 14%Iowa Women's Foundation: $130k → 15%Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis: $120k → 17%WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND: $33k → 14%Women's Foundation of Colorado: $95k → 12%Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts: $30k → 17%GENDER JUSTICE FUND: $33k → 22%The WNY Women's Foundation INC: $60k → 13%Iowa Women's Foundation: $70k → 15%Women's Foundation for a Greater Memphis: $40k → 17%Women's Fund of Rhode Island: $20k → 14%Women's Foundation of Colorado: $76k → 12%Women's Foundation of Colorado: $50k → 12%Women's Foundation of Colorado: $50k → 12%Women's Foundation of Colorado Inc: $25k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 14 repeat orgs$799k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +118% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
12

Total granted

$2.2M
$684k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
+17%

Still filing today

93%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $115k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementEducationCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WF
    WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA
    7× · 2017–2023 · $419k · revenue +257%
  • TW
    The Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona
    5× · 2017–2021 · $320k · revenue +650%
  • WF
    WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS
    3× · 2020–2023 · $223k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH
    one grant, 2021 · $360k · revenue -59%
  • WF
    WOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • TF
    THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
    one grant, 2020 · $35k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Womens Global Empowerment Fund

The mission of Women's Global Empowerment Fund is to empower women through economic, social and political programs; creating opportunities while addressing inequality, strengthening families and communities. Our strategy is to provide…

International
2
Washington Women's Foundation

Washington women's foundation is a strong and inclusive collective of informed women who together influence community transformation through individual and collective discovery, high-impact grant making and by listening to and respecting…

Philanthropy
3
Womens Impact Fund

Strengthen communities by maximizing womens leadership in philanthropy through collective giving, education and engagement.

Human Services
4
Womens Foundation of Oregon

Women's foundation of oregon supports communities, programs, and individuals that improve the lives and opportunities of women and girls. we do this through direct grants, research, and policy advocacy.

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5
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.

Education
6
New Hampshire Women's Foundation Inc

New hampshire women's foundation invests in opportunity and equality for women and girls in new hampshire through research, advocacy, education and grant making.

Education
7
Fund for Women's Equality Inc

Fund for womens equality, inc. ffwe is a national organization that promotes legal and lived equality for women in the united states by increasing public understanding of the need for comprehensive, fair and equal treatment of women and…

Civil Rights
8
Womens Fund Southcoast Inc

The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.

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9
Women's Foundation of Minnesota

Women's Foundation of Minnesota is a statewide community foundation investing in ending systemic inequities and driving innovation for gender and racial justice. WFM applies an Intersectional Equity Framework inclusive of gender, race,…

Philanthropy
10
Women Employed

To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.

Employment
11
Womens Fund of Smith County

The women's fund leverages the philanthropic capacity of women as a catalyst for positive change.

Philanthropy
12
Independent Women's Forum

Engage more individuals in the civic process, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fund for Women and Girls and the most unlike its peers is The Western New York Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,531

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

34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
19/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $351,000 · Human ServicesTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INCIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Human ServicesIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 · Human ServicesWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INCWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS — $160,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHI…Gender Justice Fund — $103,000 · Human ServicesGender Justice FundWOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $63,000 · Human ServicesWomen's Fund of Rhode Island — $53,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I — $50,000 · Human Services+4 more — $125,000 · Human Services+4 moreINSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH — $359,524 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY …MAINE WOMENS FUND — $175,000 · OtherMAINE WOMENS FUNDCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $150,000 · OtherCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMENTexas Women's Foundation — $139,251 · OtherTexas Women's FoundationWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $75,000 · OtherWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFOR…NEW MEXICO FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $35,000 · OtherTHE WESTERN NEW YORK FOUNDATION — $33,000 · Other+1 more — $15,000 · OtherWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $419,200 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FOUNDATION O…Cleveland Social Venture Partners — $93,000 · PhilanthropyCleveland Social Ven…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $60,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTH…BOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC — $53,000 · PhilanthropyBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND …Fundacion De Mujeres En Puerto Rico — $33,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · PhilanthropyThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona — $320,000 · Community ImprovementThe Womens Found…WOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS — $223,000 · Community ImprovementWOMENS FOUNDATIO…WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH — $103,000 · Civil RightsI BE BLACK GIRL — $33,000 · Civil RightsWOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO — $63,000 · EducationCivic Nation — $10,000 · EducationAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 · Public BenefitLet It Ripple Inc — $15,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$1,295,000Other$981,775Philanthropy$688,200Community Improvement$543,000Civil Rights$136,000Education$73,000Public Benefit$30,000Arts & Culture$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF ALABAMA — $419,200 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH — $359,524 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF COLORADO INC — $351,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetThe Womens Foundation for the State of Arizona — $320,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF ARKANSAS — $223,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetIOWA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetWNY WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $190,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMAINE WOMENS FUND — $175,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION FOR A GREATER MEMPHIS — $160,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHICAGO FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN — $150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTexas Women's Foundation — $139,251 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGender Justice Fund — $103,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH — $103,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCleveland Social Venture Partners — $93,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $75,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $63,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF CENTRAL OHIO — $63,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Fund of Rhode Island — $53,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC — $53,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF HAWAI'I — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetNEW YORK WOMEN'S FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS — $35,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetI BE BLACK GIRL — $33,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFundacion De Mujeres En Puerto Rico — $33,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WESTERN NEW YORK FOUNDATION — $33,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND FOR THE FOX VALLEY REGION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCivic Nation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Aditi FoundationNew York Women's Foun…Ms Foundation for Wom…Amalgamated Charitabl…WK Kellogg FoundationThe Kresge FoundationNovo FoundationAnnie E Casey Foundat…Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…The Robert Wood Johns…National Philanthropi…
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

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 Network 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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