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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 FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
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 FY2021–2025.

Human Services$490kHealth$253kYouth Development$207kCivil Rights$185kCommunity Improvement$140kHousing & Shelter$109kCrime & Legal$70kPublic Benefit$60kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 36 grants below total $634,270 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $652,242 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $17,972 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 $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $325k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Women In Dialogue$75,000
Therapy Center of Phila$75,000
Connectedly$75,000
Along the Way$75,000
Gender Justice Fund$25,000
Cent Inte de la MadrTierra$10,000
Asylum Pride House$10,000
African family Health Org$10,000
Andree Collective$10,000
Alianzas de Phoenixville$10,000
Natl Domestic Workers All PA$10,000
Dress forSucess Phila$10,000
Ark of Safety$10,000
Potters House Mission$10,000
SEAMAAC$10,000
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 (FY21–25, $485k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%WOMENS COALITION FOR EMPOWER: $10k → 7%VALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE: $10k → 11%NEW VIEW INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%Wmns Coalit for Empowerment: $10k → 7%LEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES: $10k → 7%Welcome Project PA: $10k → 7%FAMILY PROMISE OF S CHESTER C: $10k → 6%Mitzvah Circle: $10k → 7%Legay Treatment Services: $10k → 7%IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION: $10k → 6%Along the Way: $75k → 7%UNTOURS FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%You Are More Than Inc: $10k → 7%ALONG THE WAY: $10k → 7%ALONG THE WAY: $10k → 7%Kates Casa: $10k → 6%Gender Justice Fund: $25k → 22%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $10k → 22%NewView Institute: $10k → 22%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $10k → 22%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $10k → 22%Ardelias House: $10k → 22%GIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $10k → 22%GIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $10k → 22%Connectedly: $75k → 22%KITHS INTEGRD & TGD HUM SERV: $10k → 22%SEAMAAC: $10k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND: $20k → 22%ABORTION LIBERATION FUND: $20k → 22%HIAS PA: $10k → 22%Women In Transition: $10k → 22%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 30 repeat orgs$640k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
28

Total granted

$1.0M
$350k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

87%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • WI
    WOMEN IN DIALOGUE
    4× · 2021–2025 · $110k · revenue +89%
  • AT
    ALONG THE WAY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $95k · revenue ×15
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS
    3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • MY
    MOM YOUR BUSINESSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $70k · revenue +50% · 34% of their budget
  • DV
    Domestic Violence Center of Chester County
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -9%
  • FA
    FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -9%

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
Women Against Abuse Inc

The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end…

Human Services
2
Philadelphia Health Services Inc

Mentoring and educational programs for female youth

Youth Development
3
Women's Law Project

Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…

Civil Rights
4
Women's Resource Center of the Delaware Valley

Our mission is to help women and girls successfully navigate life's transitions and inspire others to do the same. by providing resources, tools and support for today, we create hope for tomorrow.

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5
Pennsylvania Women Work

The mission of pennsylvania women work is to empower women to advance in their careers and achieve self-sufficiency through life-changing career development programs and mentorship.

Human Services
6
Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery

See schedule o.power's mission is to help women reclaim their lives from addiction and related emotional health issues and improve the well-being of future generations. we provide a range of gender-responsive, trauma-informed drug and…

Health
7
Accessmatters

Accessmatters' mission is to protect, expand, and enhance access to sexual and reproductive health care and information for all people. accessmatters fulfills its mission by providing services and information directly to people, by…

Health
8
Philly Black Worker Project

) to lead and engage in campaigns that empower Black workers to advance our rights and improve job quality in key employment sectors

Civil Rights
9
United Women of the Horn

United Women of the Horn (UWH) exists to advance the leadership, safety, and civic participation of Black immigrant women, with a focus on East African communities. The organization delivers trauma-informed, culturally grounded programs…

Civil Rights
10
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
11
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
12
Womens March Inc

Women's March is committed to dismantling systems of oppression through nonviolent resistance and building inclusive structures guided by self-determination, dignity and respect.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orion Communities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gender Justice Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity Mental Health Ser…Healthcare Providers and Su…Family Homelessness & Suppo…Trade Union OrganizationsLegal Aid & Health AccessArts & Culture OrganizationsYouth Development Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%13%<5yr15%27%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr18%13%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr14%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%7%<5yr15%27%5–10yr20%27%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr14%9%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% 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%2/80
the rest of the field
13%
2,768/21,262

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

74 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. 74 of the 80 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
34/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALONG THE WAY — $95,000 · Human ServicesALONG THE WAYCONNECTEDLY — $75,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $40,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PAARDELLA'S HOUSE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesARDELLA'S HOUSE INCGender Justice Fund — $25,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE — $20,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEWVIEW INSTITUTE — $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Center of Chester County — $20,000 · Human Services+13 more — $130,000 · Human Services+13 moreWOMEN IN DIALOGUE — $110,000 · OtherWOMEN IN DIALOGUETHERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $85,000 · OtherTHERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIAALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLE — $40,000 · OtherALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLEESTEEM GIRLS INC — $27,217 · OtherNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $30,000 · Other+24 more — $310,000 · Other+24 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE — $38,368 · HealthPLANNED PA…ONCE UPON A PREEMIE — $30,000 · HealthONCE UPON …EVERYWHERE PROJECT — $20,000 · HealthEVERYWHERE…ANDREE COLLECTIVE — $10,000 · HealthANDREE COL…PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK — $10,000 · HealthPENNSYLVAN…Sankofa Healing Studio — $10,000 · HealthSankofa He…PUENTES DE SALUD — $10,000 · HealthPUENTES DE…MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC — $10,000 · HealthMATERNAL A…CONTACT OF BURLINGTON COUNTY — $10,000 · HealthCONTACT OF…FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATIO…BODY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT CORPORATION — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBODY EMPO…PHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELP…The Evoluer House — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Evolu…Girls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentGirls on …THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ATTIC…MOM YOUR BUSINESS — $70,000 · Community ImprovementBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementGUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCentro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra — $10,000 · Community ImprovementPotter's House Mission Inc — $39,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterAsylum Pride House — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterACHIEVEABILITY — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyGENTLE GRATITUDE — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$505,000Other$602,217Health$148,368Youth Development$140,000Community Improvement$130,000Housing & Shelter$79,000Philanthropy$70,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOMEN IN DIALOGUE — $110,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetALONG THE WAY — $95,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetTHERAPY CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA — $85,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTEDLY — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMOM YOUR BUSINESS — $70,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetALIANZAS DE PHOENIXVILLE — $40,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA — $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOPENCOLLECTIVE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARDELLA'S HOUSE INC — $40,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetPotter's House Mission Inc — $39,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD KEYSTONE — $38,368 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetONCE UPON A PREEMIE — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE — $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetLEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEWVIEW INSTITUTE — $20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetThe Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEREIGN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetPREVENTION MEETS FASHION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetBODY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT CORPORATION — $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORION COMMUNITIES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDomestic Violence Center of Chester County — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH — $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEVERYWHERE PROJECT — $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA — $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Evoluer House — $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATIONS COALITION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDREE COLLECTIVE — $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetKITHS INTEGRATED AND TARGETED HUMAN SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetYOU ARE MORE THAN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetVALLEY YOUTH HOUSE COMMITTEE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELCOME PROJECT PA — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEQUAL ACCESS LEGAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCULTURETRUST GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN TRANSITION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNSA EDUCATION NETWORK — $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT RIGHTS ACTION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKATES CASA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPUENTES DE SALUD — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc — $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.

The Philadelphia Foun…The Patricia Kind Fam…Philadelphia City Fun…W W Smith Charitable …The William Penn Foun…Scattergood Behaviora…Independence Foundati…The Barra Foundation …United Way of Greater…Valentine FoundationThe Gordon Charter Fo…Gender Justice Fund
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

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 Way 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 · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 70%
  • You Are More Than Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Contact of Burlington County — 70% of income from government
  • Legacy Treatment Services Inc — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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 80 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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