Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,042,853 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,554,610). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 95
- Grants received
- $20M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What International Women's Media Foundation does
Mission
The iwmf unleashes the potential of women journalists as champions of press freedom to transform the global news media.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Training and research: the foundation sponsors training programs. Participants in the foundation's training programs become highly skilled journalists. They earn promotions and awards as a result of the reporting skills acquired through the foundation's training programs and bring positive change to their newsrooms. The foundation's reporting fellows become specialists through exposure to a wide variety of experts and they produce high-quality, in-depth reporting on issues of global importance through a gendered perspective.
$3,090,750 spentof which $1,436,724 as grants100% of program spendingEmergency funds: these funds support journalists with immediate needs related to their professional work, such as medical aid, destroyed or stolen equipment and protective gear; long-term journalist needs such as trauma, mental health services and referrals to legal support; and journalists targeted as a result of their reporting at events related to but not limited to elections, civil movements and other challenging environments.
Courage awards: since 1990, the courage in journalism award honors women journalists who set themselves apart by their extraordinary bravery, and the lifetime achievement award is given in recognition of media industry pioneers who kick down barriers to equality and justice. Since 1990, the foundation has honored more than 135 women journalists from 61 countries.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,090,750.
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 $17M to $6.7M (−61%).
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: 2022 4% · 2023 3% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
110% of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 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
Elisa Lees Munoz
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose $292k → $2.6M.
21 of 95 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 41% 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 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 95 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
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
47% 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 INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 38% · 2019 44% · 2020 51% · 2021 31% · 2022 11% · 2023 14% — 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
46% of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,136 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION?
- INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 95 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,042,853 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($3,554,610). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 95 organizations giving $20,042,853 in grants to INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,554,610 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 95 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing