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NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC

NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,465,285 to it, the largest being HRK FOUNDATION ($506,189). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$1.1M
Funders on record
21
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$1.5M
14/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 43%
01What it does

What Northwoods Women Inc does

Mission

Shelter for domestic abuse victims

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Shelter for victims of domestic abuse. 24 hour crisis telephone, counseling, advocacy,emergency transportation and community education presentations. 378 (unduplicated) clients served in 2024. 1,652 crisis, counseling and referral calls during 2024.

    $835,775 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $835,775.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($617k) Expenses 100 ($609k) Net assets 100 ($321k)2018 Revenue 160 ($986k) Expenses 102 ($622k) Net assets 213 ($685k)2019 Revenue 130 ($800k) Expenses 104 ($632k) Net assets 266 ($853k)2020 Revenue 183 ($1.1M) Expenses 145 ($885k) Net assets 342 ($1.1M)2021 Revenue 199 ($1.2M) Expenses 151 ($920k) Net assets 439 ($1.4M)2022 Revenue 160 ($986k) Expenses 160 ($972k) Net assets 443 ($1.4M)2023 Revenue 151 ($932k) Expenses 152 ($923k) Net assets 446 ($1.4M)2024 Revenue 172 ($1.1M) Expenses 163 ($992k) Net assets 468 ($1.5M)
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Revenue (172)Expenses (163)Net assets (468)Peer revenue range

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 $624k to $1.1M (+76%).

$624k
$1.1M
$1.4M
$1.5M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
$1.7M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 64% · 2018 52% · 2019 46% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 55% · 2023 58% · 2024 56%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 11,814 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$8k
’17
$364k
’18
$168k
’19
$247k
’20
$309k
’21
$14k
’22
$10k
’23
$71k
’24
11
months of
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.

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Listed131414131010107
Joined·+5+1+2+5+2+1+2
No longer listed·4138215
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $10k → $200k.

8 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 NORTHWOODS WOMEN 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

NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC.

35%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 70% · 2019 77% · 2020 59% · 2021 42% · 2022 79% · 2023 32% — 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

36% of NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Wisconsin, across 3 states in all.

MN
WI
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’23
Wisconsin out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $227k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,274 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve10.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,274 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Organizations like NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 14%Fundraising 1%

Governance

7
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

80%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

WI

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Questions and answers

Who funds NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC?
NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC (Wisconsin) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,465,285 to it, the largest being HRK FOUNDATION ($506,189). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC have?
IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $1,465,285 in grants to NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC?
HRK FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $506,189 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NORTHWOODS WOMEN INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Wisconsin. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 21 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