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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 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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $318,750, the rows itemized in this filing. The $383,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $64,250 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 · 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
Carolina Raptor Center$61,350
Arts Plus$61,350
Despierta$61,350
TreesCharlotte$32,000
Wayfinders$31,350
The Relatives$31,350
NC Wildlife Federation$8,000
Right Moves for Youth$8,000
Hope Haven Inc$8,000
Independent Picture House$8,000
Shelter Health$8,000
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 (FY17–25, $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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF GREATER CHARLOTTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -55%
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
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
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
7
The Little Theatre of Charlotte Inc dba Theatre Charlotte

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

Arts & Culture
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
Community Building Initiative

The mission of Community Building Initiative (CBI) is to give people and organizations the knowledge, skills and courage to fight bias, remove barriers to opportunity and build a more equitable and just CharlotteMecklenburg. CBI envisions…

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
Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte

The mission of Rebuilding Together of Greater Charlotte is repairing homes, revitalizing communities, rebuilding lives.We mobilize community volunteers and contractors to provide repairs that make homes safer and healthier for…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Refugee Support Services of the Carolinas Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/70
Grantees still filing
40/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…JOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $76,000 · EducationJOHNSON C SMITH UNIV…GASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $76,000 · EducationGASTON COLLEGE FOUND…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…Safe Alliance Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesSafe Alliance IncChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Home Soc…REFUGEE 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…ARTPOP: $33,000 · Arts & CultureARTPOPVAPA CENTER: $33,000 · Arts & CultureVAPA CENTERCharlotte 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 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 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 budgetCAROLINA YOUTH COALITION: $95,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetSustain Charlotte Inc: $95,000 over 2y, 6.2% 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 budgetJOHNSON C SMITH UNIVERSITY: $76,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGASTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $76,000 over 2y, 2.5% 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 budgetFLORENCE CRITTENTON INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCAROLINA FARM TRUST INC: $70,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetCharlotte Speech and Hearing Center Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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 budgetThe Childrens Theatre of Charlotte Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSafe Alliance Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetENVISION CHARLOTTE: $50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetChildren's Home Society of North Carolina Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCharlotte Bilingual Learning Center: $50,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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 budgetARTPOP: $33,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetVAPA CENTER: $33,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTHE RELATIVES INC: $31,350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCharlotte Is Creative: $29,000 over 1y, 3.5% 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.

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

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 Impact Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womens Impact Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's 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
    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 72 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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