New York · Nonprofit
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC (New York) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,724,461 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,602,641). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $31M
- Funders on record
- 114
- Grants received
- $66M
- Net assets
- $118M
What Ms Foundation for Women Inc does
Mission
The mission of the ms. Foundation for women is to build women's collective power in the u.s. To advance equity and justice for all. We achieve our mission by investing in, and strengthening, the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural and economic change in the lives of women.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grantmaking and capacity building: during the 2025 fiscal year, the foundation provided general operating support for more than 200 grantee grantmaking and capacity building: during the 2024 fiscal year, the partners throughout the united states and us territories and helped advance a wide-range of projects that work to end gender violence, improve economic security, promote health equity, and more. The support of our grantmaking efforts includes strategies that are new, creative and responsive to our partners movement spaces. This year's funding is an increase over past years and represents a balanced portfolio of rural, urban, emerging, and established organizations with a concerted effort to invest and support women and girls of color (wgoc), including trans and non-binary people. (continued on schedule o)
$11,910,351 spentof which $7,670,432 as grants88% of program spendingPublic education: the foundation strives to lift the voices of all women and conducts public education in the areas critical to women's wellbeing, such as health access, reproductive justice, economic justice, and increasing the safety of women and girls. We educate and engage audiences through our website, blogs, social media platforms, online engagements, and media placements through news outlets across the country. We also strive to create strategic media and advocacy partnerships that amplify the voices of women, particularly women of color like through our virtual conversation about women and justice with the center for brooklyn history. During this fiscal year, ms. Foundation published "the color of infertility: race, infertility, and reproductive justice in the u.s. Was a presenting partner of when we win, a lemonada podcast hosted by political commentator maya rupert.
$1,638,024 spent12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $13,548,375.
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 $72M to $114M (+59%).
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.
90% of MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Teresa Younger
President/CEO
Board chair
Charline Gipson
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 40 funders, grant income rose $2.3M → $6.9M.
29 of 114 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 114 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
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 55% · 2019 48% · 2020 36% · 2021 68% · 2022 35% · 2023 24% — 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
38% of MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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
MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 63 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 63 civil rights nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN 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
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
43%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 30 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Free to Be Foundation Inc · exempt
- Ms Action Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN 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 MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC?
- MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC (New York) receives grants from 114 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,724,461 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($14,602,641). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 114 organizations giving $65,724,461 in grants to MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $14,602,641 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MS FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN 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 114 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