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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 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, FY2021 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $634,270, the rows itemized in this filing. The $652,242 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $17,972 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 $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
Along the Way$75,000
Women In Dialogue$75,000
Therapy Center of Phila$75,000
Connectedly$75,000
Gender Justice Fund$25,000
Alianzas de Phoenixville$10,000
Asylum Pride House$10,000
Ardelias House$10,000
Cent Inte de la MadrTierra$10,000
Dress forSucess Phila$10,000
Potters House Mission$10,000
Fed of Neighborhood Centers$10,000
Linked Family Services$10,000
Ark of Safety$10,000
You Are More Than Inc$10,000
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 (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 its 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%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $10k → 22%NewView Institute: $10k → 22%Ardelias House: $10k → 22%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $10k → 22%GIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $10k → 22%GIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $10k → 22%Connectedly: $75k → 22%SEAMAAC: $10k → 22%KITHS INTEGRD & TGD HUM SERV: $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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • LS
    LUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +13%
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
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.

—
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
Women Against Abuse Legal Center

The women against abuse legal center provides free attorney representation, advocacy and telephone counseling to victims of domestic violence seeking legal protections in philadelphia.

Crime & Legal
10
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
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orion Communities Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/74
Grantees still filing
33/74
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALONG THE WAY: $95,000 · Human ServicesALONG THE WAYCONNECTEDLY: $75,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTEDLYARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesARDELLA'S HOUSE INCABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PA: $40,000 · Human ServicesABORTION LIBERATION FUND OF PAGender Justice Fund: $25,000 · Human ServicesDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $20,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $20,000 · Human ServicesNEWVIEW INSTITUTE: $20,000 · Human ServicesThe Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc: $20,000 · Human ServicesLEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $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…MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $10,000 · HealthMATERNAL A…PUENTES DE SALUD: $10,000 · HealthPUENTES DE…CONTACT OF BURLINGTON COUNTY: $10,000 · HealthCONTACT OF…Sankofa Healing Studio: $10,000 · HealthSankofa He…FEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentFEDERATIO…PHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPHILADELP…BODY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT CORPORATION: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBODY EMPO…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 ImprovementWOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 · Community ImprovementGUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementCentro Integral de la Mujer Madre Tierra: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementPotter's House Mission Inc: $39,000 · Housing & ShelterGIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterACHIEVEABILITY: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterAsylum Pride House: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $40,000 over 3y, 4.9% 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 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 budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEREIGN INC: $20,000 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetEVERYWHERE PROJECT: $20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetDomestic Violence Center of Chester County: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetURBAN AFFAIRS COALITION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS JUSTICE LEAGUE: $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetPREVENTION MEETS FASHION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPHILADELPHIA AREA PROJECT ON OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetBODY EMPOWERMENT PROJECT CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBUILD OUR LIVES TOGETHER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNEWVIEW INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetThe Womens Coalition for Empowerment Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN PHILADELPHIA: $20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetORION COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Evoluer House: $20,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLEGACY TREATMENT SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN SOCIAL MISSION SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACHIEVEABILITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE CARE AND PRO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S OPPORTUNITIES RESOURCE CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANDREE COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetFOREVER YOUR OVERWATCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetGENTLE GRATITUDE: $10,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HEALTH ACCESS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA HOME OF THE SPARROW: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNSA EDUCATION NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGUARDIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKATES CASA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls on the Run of Southeastern Suburban PA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CONSORTIUM OF CHESTER COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWON INSTITUTE OF GRADUATE STUDIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA WOMAN'S PLACE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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 80 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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