New York · Nonprofit
High Water Women Foundation Inc
High Water Women Foundation Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,094 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($26,225). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $227k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $103k
- Net assets
- $38k
What High Water Women Foundation Inc does
Mission
High Water Women ("HWW")empowers women and youth in need by creating powerful volunteer opportunities that leverage the talents and aspirations of professional women.Our Work: We are a volunteer-driven organization working with nonprofit partners to identify significant volunteer opportunities to advance the nonprofit's mission while best ultilizing the skills of our members. Our impact is in three key areas: 1. Enriched education for at-risk youth. 2. Relieving the impact of family poverty. 3. Economic empowerment for women. Each year, we contribute thousands of volunteer hours to our partnerorganizations. We are able to create measurable results where philantropy and and volunteerism are coupled,and therefore we partner with organizations where our philantropic and volunteerism goals converge.
As stated on its FY2022 Form 990.
Programs
Our yearly Back-To-School backpack drive directly benefits at-risk elementary and high school students living in New York City and the Tri-State area by providing a fully-supplied backpack to start the new school year. Our all-volunteer fundraising committee raises money allowing us to assemble thousands of backpacks for youth that are homeless, living in foster care and living in poverty. Since the backpack drive began in 2005, we have provided more than 153,000 children in need. 160,848 children received backbacks since 2005.
$99,561 spent50% of program spendingSince 2013 HWW's Annual Investing for Impact Symposium is a one-day event that provides opportunities for investors and finance professionals to learn about innovation and investment opportunities across asset classes for aligning investments with impact. The symposium brings together current and prospective impact investors and other key stakeholders to hear from and engage with peers and experts, share ideas and experiences, and participate in facilitated discussions in the spirit of learning and expanding the scope of the impact dialogue
$51,929 spent26% of program spendingIn today's complicated financial world, it is increasingly important for young people to learn the fundamentals of earning, saving and investing. It is equally important to understand the implications of debt and to avoid the pitfalls of unscrupulous lenders and phisers and other predatory practices. to address this issue, we joined forces with financial industry legend Muriel Siebert in 2009 to launch the Muriel Siebert High Water Women campaign for financial literacy. The objective of the program is to teach low-income teens and adults how to manage money responsibly and to lay the groundwork for a more secure financial future. The ciriculum used in the program was developed by the Siebert Foundation. HWW has updated the ciriculum and expanded it for use with young adults. The students gain knowledge and skills necessary to participate in the banking system, avoid predatory lenders, manage debt,avoid bad credit, understand taxes and to budget and spend wisely, because these essential skills are not included in the school- day curriculums for most NYC public school students. The High Water Women Financial Literacy Program presents a unique opportunity for students to learn about…
$36,847 spent19% of program spendingEach December HWW provides gifts to children in need in New York City. These gifts are distributed to youth in homeless shelters,living in foster care and in low income households. In addition, each year HWW provides over one hundred volunteers to support our nonprofit partner programs and projects. These projects range from mock interviews to assisting at holiiday parties
$10,512 spent5% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $198,849.
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 2017 to 2018, from $287k to $172k (−40%).
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: 2021 23% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of High Water Women Foundation Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 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
Elanor Brand
Interim Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $20k → $10k.
5 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 High Water Women Foundation 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
High Water Women Foundation Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% 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 High Water Women Foundation Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 50% · 2021 36% · 2022 82% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of High Water Women Foundation Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 27% 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
High Water Women Foundation Inc draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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
High Water Women Foundation Inc's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,420 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
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In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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 High Water Women Foundation 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 High Water Women Foundation Inc?
- High Water Women Foundation Inc (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $103,094 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($26,225). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does High Water Women Foundation Inc have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $103,094 in grants to High Water Women Foundation Inc, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of High Water Women Foundation Inc?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $26,225 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like High Water Women Foundation 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 11 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