Louisiana · Nonprofit
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,301,875 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($5,315,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $7.7M
What Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies does
Mission
IWES is dedicated to improving the mental, physical, and spiritual health and quality of life for woman, their families and communities of color, particularly among marginalized populations using community-driven research, programs, training, and advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Youth development and adolescent health - through this area of focus, iwes provides opportunities for youth to develop and enhance their leadership and advocacy skills through trauma-informed approaches. Additionally, iwes provides community members, in particular youth and young adults, with comprehensive adolescent health education, hiv and teen pregnancy prevention education and services, advocacy and outreach using social media, peer and community engagement.
$2,971,132 spentof which $22,538 as grants89% of program spendingResilience - this area of focus concentrates on community-level, non-clinical approaches to equitable recovery, healing and resilience of vulnerable populations through community-wide healing events, documenting stories of struggle and sruvival, colllaborations to develop trauma-informed approaches and community-driven, participatory research. Iwes helps to build emotional and physical well-being, resilience and capacity, using a social ecological model sem as its theoretical framework, which reocgnizes that individual behavior is shaped by multiple levels of influence including, interpersonal, community and societal context.
$234,112 spentof which $23 as grants$129,581 earned by the program7% of program spendingEmotional/physical well-being - to further the organization's mission, iwes engages community members in activities and events focused on addressing their emotional well-being, overall physical and psychological health. Iwes uses the social ecologial model , an in-depth multi-dimensional approach, which recognizes that individual behavior is shaped by multiple levels of influence including, interpersonal, community and societal context. Through this approach, iwes creates culturally proficient programs, activities and research to address and advocate for women of color, their families and communities to heal and create community spaces, programs, and events that promote health and well being.
$120,267 spentof which $467 as grants$91,655 earned by the program4% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,325,511.
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 2023 to 2024, from $5.1M to $9.6M (+89%).
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 36% · 2018 91% · 2019 26% · 2020 72% · 2021 47% · 2022 45% · 2023 46% · 2024 22% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Lisa Richardson
President & CEO
Board chair
Michelle Moore
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $1.6M.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies’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
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 33% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 96% · 2019 67% · 2020 52% · 2021 46% · 2022 35% · 2023 52% — 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
54% of Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M 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.
Against its field
Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $16.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.6M
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 Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
62%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies: 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 Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies?
- Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies (Louisiana) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,301,875 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($5,315,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $16,301,875 in grants to Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $5,315,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Institute of Women & Ethnic Studies find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 19 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