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Womens Impact Fund

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

$383k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$761kHuman Services$693kArts & Culture$640kHealth$596kEnvironment$432kCommunity Improvement$214kPhilanthropy$214kFood & Nutrition$165kOther$0
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 11 grants below total $318,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $383,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $64,250 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $184k
$31,350
Median grant
1
States reached
$656k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Despierta$61,350
Carolina Raptor Center$61,350
Arts Plus$61,350
TreesCharlotte$32,000
Wayfinders$31,350
The Relatives$31,350
NC Wildlife Federation$8,000
Shelter Health$8,000
Right Moves for Youth$8,000
Hope Haven Inc$8,000
Independent Picture House$8,000
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 (FY17–25, $671k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%Childrens Home Society: $50k → 10%Supportive Housing Communitie: $60k → 10%Safe Alliance: $50k → 10%Youth Villages: $50k → 10%Youth Villages: $50k → 10%Universal Institue for Succes: $27k → 10%Right Moves for Youth: $45k → 10%The Relatives: $31k → 10%GardHouse: $25k → 10%Right Moves for Youth: $8k → 10%WINGS for Kids: $50k → 10%WINGS for Kids: $50k → 10%WINGS for Kids: $50k → 10%OurBridge for Kids: $56k → 10%OurBridge for Kids: $44k → 10%OurBridge for Kids: $25k → 10%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 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.4M · 26 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
40

Total granted

$2.4M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+16%

Still filing today

96%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $255k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $155k · revenue +84%
  • CR
    CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $147k · revenue +267%
  • OI
    ourBRIDGE Inc
    3× · 2017–2020 · $125k · revenue +747%

Funded once

  • MF
    MATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $80k · revenue +55%
  • TL
    The Learning Collaborative
    one grant, 2024 · $78k · revenue 0%
  • FC
    FLORENCE CRITTENTON INC
    one grant, 2024 · $75k · revenue -51%

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
The Charlotte Center for the Humanities Inc

The mission of The Charlotte Center is to help our community flourish. We accomplish our mission by bringing people together to explore community life together through the lens of the humanities and civic imagination.

Human Services
2
UrbanPromise Charlotte

Provide Charlotte's low-income children and youth with the academic, spiritual, and social development necessary to become Christian leaders determined to restore their communities.

Youth Development
3
Clt Joules

CLT Joules is a 501(c)(3) non-profit working with utilities, industry, municipalities, universities and R&D institutions to identify, advise, connect and deploy cleantech startups with Charlotte and the Research Triangle Park.

Civil Rights
4
Carolina Therapeutic Services Community Development Inc

CTS Community Development is a behavioral health provider committed to helping individuals from underserved communities to live safe, productive, and meaningful lives

Human Services
5
For Charlotte Inc

To unite the Church to transform the city through the power of the Gospel.

Religion
6
The Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte

To produce volunteer-based theatrical events in the Charlotte, NC region.

Arts & Culture
7
Dress for Success Charlotte

A womens advancement center, the mission of Dress for Success is to empower women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire and development tools to thrive in work and in life. Programs and…

Human Services
8
Center for Participatory Change

Igniting collective power. Transforming systems of oppression. Healing in community.

Community Improvement
9
Carolina Charter Academy

Operation of a public charter school.

Education
10
Carolina Common Enterprise

The specific objectives and purposes of this corporation shall be to assist individuals and communities, particularly those in low-income and socially disadvantaged areas, in the creation, expansion, and improvement of rural and…

Community Improvement
11
Charlotte Pride Inc

Charlotte pride creates programs and activites to enrich, empower, strengthen and make visable the unique lives and experiences of lgbtq people in charlotte.

Civil Rights
12
Charlotte Works

Charlotte works serves job-seekers and businesses by providing resources to develop a skilled workforce that meets employer needs. the organization offers job-search workshops, individual coaching, networking opportunities, and training…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc and the most unlike its peers is About Face. 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 20 years old; the field is 9. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number32%3%<5yr20%18%5–10yr21%28%10–20yr12%20%20–35yr8%18%35–55yr8%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value32%1%<5yr20%15%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr12%23%20–35yr8%25%35–55yr8%13%55yr+

The field is 32% 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 22% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
3/72
the rest of the field
22%
1,391/6,426

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

70 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. 70 of the 72 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)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAROLINA YOUTH COALITION — $95,000 · EducationCAROLINA YOUTH COALI…Common Wealth Associates Inc — $95,000 · EducationCommon Wealth Associ…Heart Math Tutoring Inc — $80,000 · EducationHeart Math Tutoring …The Learning Collaborative — $78,000 · EducationThe Learning Collabo…GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $76,000 · EducationGASTON COLLEGE FOUND…JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY — $76,000 · EducationJOHNSON C SMITH UNIV…The ROC Charlotte Inc — $75,000 · EducationThe ROC Charlotte In…Charlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $50,000 · EducationCharlotte Bilingual …Communities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc — $35,000 · EducationDigi-Bridge — $26,000 · Education+3 more — $48,500 · Education+3 moreWINGS FOR KIDS — $150,000 · Human ServicesWINGS FOR KIDSourBRIDGE Inc — $124,999 · Human ServicesourBRIDGE IncYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INCSupportive Housing Communities Inc — $60,000 · Human ServicesSupportive Housing …Right Moves for Youth Inc — $53,000 · Human ServicesRight Moves for You…Children's Home Society of North Carolina Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Soc…Safe Alliance Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance IncREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE SUPPORT SER…THE RELATIVES INC — $31,350 · Human ServicesUNIVERSAL INSTITUTE FOR SUCCESSFUL AGING OF CAROLI UISAC — $26,500 · Human ServicesGardHouse Limited — $25,000 · Human ServicesPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $155,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHO…Hope Haven Inc — $108,000 · HealthHope Haven IncMATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $80,000 · HealthMATTHEWS FREE ME…Charlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc — $70,000 · HealthCharlotte Speech…Despierta — $61,350 · HealthDespiertaSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $58,000 · HealthSHELTER HEALTH S…Carolinas CARE Partnership — $52,000 · HealthCarolinas CARE P…+1 more — $20,000 · HealthGoodyear Arts — $100,000 · OtherGoodyear ArtsFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC — $75,000 · OtherFLORENCE CRITTENTON INCThe Center for Community Transitions — $70,000 · OtherThe Center for Community Tra…CLAYWORKS INC — $70,000 · OtherCLAYWORKS INCArtsPlus — $61,350 · OtherArtsPlusEPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF NORTH CAROLINA ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $50,000 · OtherCOPS AND BARBERS — $40,000 · OtherMeckEd — $100,000 · OtherMeckEdUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $75,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLO…THE BULB GALLERY — $95,000 · OtherTHE BULB GALLERYCAROLINA FARM TRUST INC — $70,000 · OtherCAROLINA FARM TRUST INCCarolina Raptor Center Inc — $61,350 · OtherCarolina Raptor Center Inc+7 more — $167,350 · Other+7 moreCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC — $147,000 · EnvironmentCATAWBA RIVE…CONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA — $85,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION…TreesCharlotte — $77,000 · EnvironmentTreesCharlot…ENVISION CHARLOTTE — $50,000 · EnvironmentENVISION CHA…North Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $43,500 · EnvironmentNorth Caroli…Catawba Lands Conservancy — $37,000 · EnvironmentCatawba Land…Charlotte Art League Inc — $76,000 · Arts & CultureCharlotte A…The Arts Empowerment Project Inc — $63,000 · Arts & CultureThe Arts Em…The Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Childre…VAPA CENTER — $33,000 · Arts & CultureVAPA CENTERARTPOP — $33,000 · Arts & CultureARTPOPCharlotte Is Creative — $29,000 · Arts & CultureCharlotte I…Three Bone Theatre Inc — $29,000 · Arts & CultureThree Bone …QUE-OS — $27,000 · Arts & CultureQUE-OSGirls Rock Charlotte DBA We Rock Charlotte — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGirls Rock …JAZZARTS CHARLOTTE — $21,000 · Arts & CultureTheatre Gap Initiative — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $8,000 · Arts & CultureSustain Charlotte Inc — $95,000 · Community ImprovementFREEDOM COMMUNITIES — $94,000 · Community ImprovementUNIVERSITY CITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,500 · Community Improvement
Education$734,500Human Services$710,849Health$604,350Other$1,035,050Environment$439,500Arts & Culture$409,000Community Improvement$201,500

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 budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTH ATLANTIC INC — $155,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS FOR KIDS — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC — $147,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetourBRIDGE Inc — $124,999 over 3y, 17% of budgetHope Haven Inc — $108,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMeckEd — $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSustain Charlotte Inc — $95,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION — $95,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCommon Wealth Associates Inc — $95,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BULB GALLERY — $95,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFREEDOM COMMUNITIES — $94,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCONSERVATION TRUST FOR NORTH CAROLINA — $85,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMATTHEWS FREE MEDICAL CLINIC — $80,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetHeart Math Tutoring Inc — $80,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Learning Collaborative — $78,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTreesCharlotte — $77,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCharlotte Art League Inc — $76,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $76,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY — $76,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe ROC Charlotte Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc — $70,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCAROLINA FARM TRUST INC — $70,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetThe Center for Community Transitions — $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCLAYWORKS INC — $70,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetThe Arts Empowerment Project Inc — $63,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetDespierta — $61,350 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCarolina Raptor Center Inc — $61,350 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetArtsPlus — $61,350 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSupportive Housing Communities Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSHELTER HEALTH SERVICES INC — $58,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetRight Moves for Youth Inc — $53,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetCarolinas CARE Partnership — $52,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center — $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetENVISION CHARLOTTE — $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNorth Carolina Wildlife Federation Inc — $43,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetREFUGEE SUPPORT SERVICES OF THE CAROLINAS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCatawba Lands Conservancy — $37,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCommunities In Schools of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Inc — $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVAPA CENTER — $33,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetARTPOP — $33,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC — $31,350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCharlotte Is Creative — $29,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

Foundation for the Ca…United Way of Greater…Duke Energy FoundationThe Leon Levine Found…Merancas Foundation I…Arts & Science Counci…Ally Charitable Found…Charlotte Woman's Clu…Truist Foundation IncThe Presbyterian Hosp…Albemarle FoundationThe LendingTree Found…
Foundation for the CarolinasNC92.7× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foundation for the Carolinas · United Way of Greater Charlotte Inc · Duke Energy Foundation · The Leon Levine Foundation · Merancas Foundation Inc · Arts & Science Council Charlotte/Mecklenburg Inc · Ally Charitable Foundation · Charlotte Woman's Club First Citizens Bank · Truist Foundation Inc · The Presbyterian Hospital · Albemarle Foundation · The LendingTree 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 Impact Fund 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 · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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