New York · Nonprofit
FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC
FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,439). 6 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 FY2025
- $169k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $233k
- Net assets
- $305k
What Fund for Women of the Southern Tier Inc does
Mission
The organization assists girls and women achieve economic self-sufficiency and realize life goals through grants in the areas of education, health, wellness, career, and life skills.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization assists girls and women achieve economic self-sufficiency and realize life goals through grants in the areas of education, health, wellness, career and life skills. The organization did this in five ways in 2025 1) through making grants to the fund for women endowment at the community foundation of elmira-corning and the finger lakes. The organization has a grant committee that makes recommendations to the community foundation for grant awards to individuals for education and to not-for-profits for programs for girls and women. In 2025, total grants awarded by the community foundation from the fund for women endowment amounted to $57,950.2) through the fund for women empower grant to an area non-profit. In 2025 the organization granted $50,000 to twin tiers baby bank. The twin tiers baby bank is a 100% volunteer-driven organization dedicated to ensuring that every baby and toddler in our community has the essentials they need to thrive by providing diapers, wipes, and other basic supplies to families in need. The twin tiers baby bank distributes over 165,000 diapers annually.3) through grants to the fund for women endowment at the community foundation of…
$420,410 spentof which $402,500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $420,410.
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 2024 to 2025, from $566k to $305k (−46%).
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.
98% of FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $35k.
4 of 9 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 FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER 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
FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
91% 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 FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 50% · 2021 94% · 2022 42% · 2023 40% — 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
43% of FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER 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
91% of FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER 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 $20k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $213k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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.
Against its field
FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC is better cushioned than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
67%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC?
- FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC (New York) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $232,780 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($150,439). 6 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 FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $232,780 in grants to FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $150,439 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN TIER 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.
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 9 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