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1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services

1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,290 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$440k
Funders on record
7
Grants received
$63k
Net assets
$532k
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%
01What it does

What 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services does

Mission

1st Way Life Center has been serving the community for over 40 years. We are here to empower women and girls with information and education about their bodies.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide alternatives to abortion, pregnancy and & ultrasound testing, prenatal & child development education, support meetings, referrals to shelter homes, material assistance such as clothing, infant supplies. Assisted 250+ clients

    $204,202 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $204,202.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($135k) Expenses 100 ($99k) Net assets 100 ($195k)2018 Revenue 103 ($139k) Expenses 123 ($122k) Net assets 109 ($212k)2019 Revenue 150 ($202k) Expenses 148 ($146k) Net assets 137 ($268k)2020 Revenue 169 ($228k) Expenses 191 ($189k) Net assets 157 ($307k)2021 Revenue 188 ($254k) Expenses 222 ($221k) Net assets 174 ($340k)2022 Revenue 217 ($293k) Expenses 261 ($259k) Net assets 192 ($374k)2023 Revenue 195 ($263k) Expenses 271 ($269k) Net assets 189 ($368k)2024 Revenue 326 ($440k) Expenses 279 ($277k) Net assets 272 ($532k)
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Revenue (326)Expenses (279)Net assets (272)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $419k to $573k (+37%).

$332k
$344k
$394k
$429k
$405k
$433k
$419k
$573k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 5% · 2021 6% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$36k
’17
$17k
’18
$56k
’19
$39k
’20
$33k
’21
$34k
’22
−$6k
’23
$163k
’24
16
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

201920202021202220232024
Listed9910887
Joined·+0+4+0+3+0
No longer listed·03231
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $25 → $6k.

5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 91% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services.

47%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

91% of 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Illinois, across 2 states.

IL
CT

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin37% · top quartile
Months of reserve15.5mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 26%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members
129%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services?
1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services (Illinois) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,290 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($30,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 91% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services have?
IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $63,290 in grants to 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services?
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $30,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like 1ST WAY PREGNANCY SUPPORT SERVICES dba Womens Help Services find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing