How much does Womens Way give?

Womens Way reported 36 itemized grants totaling $634,270, out of $652,242 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does Womens Way fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (15%), Youth Development (12%).

Who are Womens Way's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Women in Dialogue ($110k), Along the Way ($95k), Therapy Center of Philadelphia ($85k).

Does Womens Way fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Way?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The Patricia Kind Family Foundation, Philadelphia City Fund Inc.

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Pennsylvania · Public charity

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.

$652k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 36
Itemized grants FY2025: 18
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $634k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $75,000
Organizations funded a year: 16 to 33; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 3
Total assets, FY2025: $4.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Womens Way funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationCrime & LegalOther

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
FY2025still arriving	34	$634k	62%
FY2024	18	$177k	22%
FY2023	33	$350k	58%
FY2022	23	$308k	83%
FY2021	16	$185k	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, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$490kHealth$253kYouth Development$207kCivil Rights$185kCommunity Improvement$140kHousing & Shelter$109kCrime & Legal$70kPublic Benefit$60kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Women in Dialogue	$110,000	4	3%
Along the Way	$95,000	3	10%
Therapy Center of Philadelphia	$85,000	2	3%
Connectedly	$75,000	1	11%
Mom Your Business	$70,000	1	34%
Federation of Neighborhood Centers	$60,000	3	1%
Ardella's House Inc	$40,000	3	5%
Alianzas de Phoenixville	$40,000	4	7%
Abortion Liberation Fund of Pa	$40,000	2	2%
Opencollective Foundation	$40,000	3	0%

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All grantees of Womens Way by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Women in Dialogue	$110,000	4	3%
Along the Way	$95,000	3	10%
Therapy Center of Philadelphia	$85,000	2	3%
Connectedly	$75,000	1	11%
Mom Your Business	$70,000	1	34%
Federation of Neighborhood Centers	$60,000	3	1%
Ardella's House Inc	$40,000	3	5%
Alianzas de Phoenixville	$40,000	4	7%
Abortion Liberation Fund of Pa	$40,000	2	2%
Opencollective Foundation	$40,000	3	0%
Potter's House Mission Inc	$39,000	4	4%
Planned Parenthood Keystone	$38,368	4	0%
Once Upon a Preemie	$30,000	3	2%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$30,000	3	0%
Esteem Girls Inc	$27,217	3	n/a
Gender Justice Fund	$25,000	1	n/a
Wereign Inc	$20,000	2	6%
The Greater Philadelphia Diaper Bank	$20,000	2	n/a
Everywhere Project	$20,000	2	12%
Domestic Violence Center of Chester County	$20,000	1	1%
Urban Affairs Coalition	$20,000	2	0%
Girls Justice League	$20,000	2	7%
Drops of Love International	$20,000	2	n/a
Tias Place - Transitioning Into Adulthood	$20,000	2	n/a
Prevention Meets Fashion Inc	$20,000	2	18%
Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety & Health	$20,000	2	2%
Body Empowerment Project Corporation	$20,000	2	10%
Build Our Lives Together Inc	$20,000	2	3%
Newview Institute	$20,000	2	6%
The Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc	$20,000	2	7%
Girls on the Run Philadelphia	$20,000	2	3%
Orion Communities Inc	$20,000	2	1%
The Evoluer House	$20,000	2	11%
Legacy Treatment Services Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Lutheran Social Mission Society	$10,000	1	0%
Achieveability	$10,000	1	0%
African Family Health Organization	$10,000	1	n/a
Friends Association for the Care and Pro	$10,000	1	0%
No More Secrets-Mind Body Spirit	$10,000	1	n/a
Women's Opportunities Resource Center	$10,000	1	1%
Andree Collective	$10,000	1	7%
Forever Your Overwatch Foundation	$10,000	1	15%
Gentle Gratitude	$10,000	1	40%
Pennsylvania Health Access Network	$10,000	1	1%
Dress for Success Greater Philadelphia	$10,000	1	6%
Pennsylvania Home of the Sparrow	$10,000	1	1%
Nsa Education Network	$10,000	1	18%
World Class Women	$10,000	1	n/a
Guardian Angels Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	11%
Kates Casa Inc	$10,000	1	13%
Untours Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Girls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA	$10,000	1	2%
Maternal and Child Health Consortium of Chester County Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Asylum Pride House	$10,000	1	n/a
Linked Family Services	$10,000	1	n/a
Mitzvah Circle Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Won Institute of Graduate Studies	$10,000	1	0%
A Woman's Place	$10,000	1	0%
Culturetrust Greater Philadelphia	$10,000	1	0%
The Career Wardrobe	$10,000	1	0%
Valley Youth House Committee Inc	$10,000	1	0%
You Are More Than Inc	$10,000	1	3%
Puentes de Salud	$10,000	1	1%
Immigrant Rights Action	$10,000	1	6%
Kiths Integrated and Targeted Human Services Inc	$10,000	1	8%
Contact of Burlington County	$10,000	1	1%
Equal Access Legal Services Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Centro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra	$10,000	1	n/a
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Victorias Urban Outreach Tutoring Service	$10,000	1	n/a
Drexel University	$10,000	1	0%
Sankofa Healing Studio	$10,000	1	n/a
Why Not Prosper Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Family Promise of Southern Chester County	$10,000	1	1%
Welcome Project Pa	$10,000	1	2%
The Attic Youth Center	$10,000	1	1%
Women in Transition	$10,000	1	1%

Womens Way supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 63 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 63.

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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.

The Philadelphia FoundationPA65.4× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · W W Smith Charitable Trust · The William Penn Foundation · Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Valentine Foundation · The Gordon Charter Foundation · Gender Justice Fund

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 Way

How much does Womens Way give?: Womens Way reported 36 itemized grants totaling $634,270, out of $652,242 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 33 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Womens Way fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Health (15%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Womens Way's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Women in Dialogue ($110k), Along the Way ($95k), Therapy Center of Philadelphia ($85k).
Does Womens Way fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Womens Way?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, The Patricia Kind Family Foundation, Philadelphia City Fund Inc.
Where is Womens Way based?: Womens Way is based in PA.