New York · Nonprofit
Dominican Womens Development Center Inc
Dominican Womens Development Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,452,063 to it, the largest being HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ($904,920). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.3M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $2.5M
- Net assets
- $336k
What Dominican Womens Development Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of the organization is to contribute to the empowerment of low income Dominican and other Latina women by promoting gender equality, social justice,and providing culturally competent social services,and provide group child care and early headstart for young toddlers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Early Head Start Program - Promote school readiness and provide a comprehensive array of health, nutritional and social services to eligible pre-schoolers and their families, children from birth to three years old and pregnant women are eligible to receive services. The program received $136,430 of donated services, the same amount is charged as in kind expenditures
$1,918,717 spent34% of program spendingChild Care - Includes the NYC Department of Education, Division of Early Childhood Education (DECE) serving 95 school day children ages 3 to 4 years old. The program received $262,000 of fresh produce and staples. donated services.
$1,569,225 spent28% of program spendingHealth Care and Education - Provides a comprehensive range of HIV/STD/HCV prevention interventions and support services to individuals who engage in high risk behavior and persons living with HIV. also, includes services to improve health equity and maternal and infant health outcomes in neighborhood with the greatest health inequities
$716,043 spent13% of program spendingInformation & referral - provides counseling, information and referral services to residents of the Washington Heights area. Includes grants received from NYC DYCD and USDE - STEM.
$1,208,114 spent21% of program spendingVarious other programs - Various programs providing related services such as: Domestic Violence Service - provides education, support, advocacy and emergency assistance to victims of domestic violence
$286,887 spent$200 earned by the program5% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,698,986.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $761k to $1.2M (+54%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 78% · 2018 77% · 2019 80% · 2020 76% · 2021 83% · 2022 71% · 2023 77% · 2024 79% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
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.
Chief executive
Rosita R Romero
Executive Director
Board chair
Rita Mella
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $22k → $301k.
8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 27% 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 Dominican Womens Development Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 21 funders by total. 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
Dominican Womens Development Center Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
87% 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 Dominican Womens Development Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 58% · 2018 44% · 2019 46% · 2020 47% · 2021 56% · 2022 39% · 2023 29% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
42% of Dominican Womens Development Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of Dominican Womens Development Center Inc's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $671k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding Dominican Womens Development Center Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.4M
- Department of Education$1.0M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Dominican Womens Development Center Inc
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Dominican Womens Development Center Inc: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Dominican Womens Development Center Inc?
- Dominican Womens Development Center Inc (New York) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,452,063 to it, the largest being HISPANIC FEDERATION INC ($904,920). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Dominican Womens Development Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $2,452,063 in grants to Dominican Womens Development Center Inc, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Dominican Womens Development Center Inc?
- HISPANIC FEDERATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $904,920 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Dominican Womens Development Center Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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