· Private foundation
Womenstrong International
WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL finds, funds, nurtures, and shares women-driven solutions that will transform lives in urban communities.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 55% of all-years giving ($3.9M)
17 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 49% of Womenstrong International’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 -85% · 55% of their budget
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $174k · revenue +70%
- DFDHAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $92k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Globalgiving Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Womenstrong International funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Womenstrong International. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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