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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $430,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $578,254 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $148,254 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Womens Fdn of the South$70,000
Gender Justice Fund$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
AZ
NM
AR
TN
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

+112%
+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
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.

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 +106%

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%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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
Womens Impact Fund

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

Human Services
3
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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4
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
5
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
6
Womens Way

Formed in the late-70's, WOMEN'S WAY achieves gender equity by building collective power to disrupt oppressive systems and strengthen alternative models centered in love, dignity, and liberation.

Human Services
7
Women Empowering Women
Unclassified
8
The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania

The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to…

Civil Rights
9
Washington Women's Foundation

Washington women's foundation (the foundation) is a nonprofit corporation that envisions an intentional community of women of all backgrounds united in building a just, equitable, and thriving washington. their mission is to provide…

Philanthropy
10
Womens Executive Alliance
Philanthropy
11
Women First Inc

Women first invests in grassroots initiatives driven by women in developing economies that sustainably advance their lives.

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fund for Women and Girls; 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.
04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetWOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH: $103,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetGender Justice Fund: $103,000 over 2y, 14% 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 budgetFundacion De Mujeres En Puerto Rico: $33,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetI BE BLACK GIRL: $33,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE WESTERN NEW YORK FOUNDATION: $33,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 7.9% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

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 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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Womens Funding Network funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womens Funding Network. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home