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DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC
DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $246k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $26k
- Net assets
- $226k
What Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide Inc Formerly Indias Daughters Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to bring about a transformation to society that supports the social, cultural, educational, and medical needs of women anywhere in the world. The organization is organized exclusively for charitable, religious, educational, and scientific purposes, including, for such purposes, the making of distributions to organizations that qualify as exempt organizations described under Section 501( c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, or corresponding section of any future federal tax code, and any other charitable, scientific and educational activities that may be carried out by organizations under the Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3).
As stated on its FY2017 Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $146k to $267k (+82%).
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $500 → $25k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 98% 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 DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC’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
DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2021 100% — 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
98% of DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC'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 $500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,117 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC?
- DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $25,500 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($25,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $25,500 in grants to DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC.
- Who is the largest funder of DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIRECT ACTION FOR WOMEN NOW WORLD-WIDE INC FORMERLY INDIAS DAUGHTERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 2 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