· Private foundation
Womenstrong International
WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL finds, funds, nurtures, and shares women-driven solutions that will transform lives in urban communities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k33 grants · $837k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUNDACION BARRANQUILLA20 | $50,000 |
| AMAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| CLIMALAB | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA | $40,000 |
| ROOTS OF HEALTH (UGAT NG KALUSUGAN) | $40,000 |
| GENDER AND DEVELOPMENT CAMBODIA | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| MALI HEALTH | $40,000 |
| THE ACTION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| ASSOCIATION LEAD SANTE (PROJET JEUNE LEADER) | $30,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 45% of grant dollars ($3.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 55% that went abroad ($3.9M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $315k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 55% of all-years giving ($3.9M)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 49% of Womenstrong International’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $420k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WJWomens Justice Initiative Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $399k · revenue +190%
- MAMUJERES ALIADAS6× · 2020–2025 · $249k · revenue ×18 · 56% of their budget
- TRTHE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC3× · 2020–2022 · $180k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- HOHAITI OUTREACH PWOJE ESPWA INCone grant, 2017 · $408k · revenue -88% · 55% of their budget
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $174k · revenue +70%
- DFDHAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $92k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
MAIA is creating a generation of empowered leaders who have the knowledge and resources they need to lead choice-filled lives, break cycles of poverty, and ignite transformational change in their communities.
COHIs mission is to work with women and their communities in times of crisis and disaster to ensure access to quality reproductive, maternal and newborn care. See Sch O for full mission.
Health Poverty Action USA acts in solidarity with health workers, activists & communities worldwide to improve health & challenge the causes of poverty. We do this in 3 distinct ways: 1. We approach health as an issue of social justice. We…
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…
Advocate for and support women in sex work and their children.
Reduce maternal mortality in low resource areas through education and healthcare infrastructure. Each program is a specific partnership with community led projects to improve quality of health care service delivery, improve systems and…
Initiatives that empower women in poverty and conflict zones, expanding access to economic opportunities, education and vocational skills training, health care access, and protection from violence.
Promote health and wellness globally for women and kids
To promote health and education for women and children in the most underserved and difficult to reach places in the world.
Delivering devices and equipment to mid-to-low income countries, to target the prevention and detection of non-communicable diseases. This is specifically focused on impacting the lives of women.
WomensTrusts mission is to empower women and girls in Pokuase, Ghana, through economic development, education, and healthcare, and to inspire others to do the same elsewhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Reconciliation Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sahar Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 35 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HAITI OUTREACH PWOJE ESPWA INC ↗
- Who funds Womens Justice Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds SAHAR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MALI HEALTH ORGANIZING PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VISIONARIA NETWORK ↗
- Who funds GIRL UP INITIATIVE UGANDA ↗
- Who funds MUJERES ALIADAS ↗
- Who funds Firecracker Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE RECONCILIATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds MEN STOPPING VIOLENCE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Womenstrong International 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.
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.
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