Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
National Women's Health Network
National Women's Health Network (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,327,778 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,915,471). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2023
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 136
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What National Women's Health Network does
Mission
Thousands of individual members support the NWHNs focus on long-term goals: establishing health care that meets the needs of diverse women; protecting the health of all women by opposing the over medicalization of womens normal experience, such as menopause and childbirth.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Sponsored Projects - NWHN sponsors projects on issues in keeping with our mission. Sponsored project, Plan C, provides on-line information about the safety and accessibility of medical abortions and how to access abortion pills through the mail. The Miscarriage and Abortion Hotline answers thousands of hotline callers questions about miscarriage and abortion. The Appalachian Abortion Support Collective provides unbiased information for people who are seeking abortions or abortion information.
$3,295,273 spentof which $403,951 as grants84% of program spendingPolicy, Advocacy and Lobbying - The Network provides education to the general public and legislators on womens health issues and concerns. The Network works with organizations to shape legislative outcomes through education, outreach, policy recommendations and mobilizing grassroots engagement. While the Network does some lobbying the main focus of the Network is on education and policy work.
$221,410 spentof which $56,000 as grants6% of program spendingCommunication and Outreach - The Network uses various channels of communication, including email, social media, and press releases, to communicate to their members and the general public on topics affecting womens health, including reproductive health, drugs, medical devices, and access to care that meets the needs of women in all their diversities. The Network uses their podcast in an effort to reach more people and cover a range of experiences, including infertility, breast cancer, and trans health, focusing not just on medical facts, but also giving voice to the lived experiences of the people participating in the podcast episodes.
$429,447 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,946,130.
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 $2.5M to $5.2M (+110%).
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: 2020 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of National Women's Health Network’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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
Denise M Hyater Lindenmuth
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2023 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 20 funders to 65 funders, grant income rose $632k → $4.3M.
26 of 136 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 National Women's Health Network’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 136 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
National Women's Health Network has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
66% 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 National Women's Health Network.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 31% · 2019 18% · 2020 23% · 2021 49% · 2022 23% · 2023 19% — 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 National Women's Health Network's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
55% of National Women's Health Network'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 $5.9M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 23 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 15 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
National Women's Health Network holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,853 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,853 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2023
Organizations like National Women's Health Network
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Women's Health Network: 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 National Women's Health Network?
- National Women's Health Network (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 136 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,327,778 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,915,471). 67 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does National Women's Health Network have?
- IRS filings report 136 organizations giving $13,327,778 in grants to National Women's Health Network, 67 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Women's Health Network?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,915,471 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Women's Health Network 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 136 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