Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $714,231 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($385,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.3M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $714k
- Net assets
- $3.4M
What Society for Women's Health Research does
Mission
Advance women's health through science, policy, and education while promoting research on sex differences to optimize women's health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Scientific, swhr networks, and bosd journal - swhr maintains a dialogue with the public and private sector research communities to educate them about the need for research in women's health and the study of sex differences. Swhr co-owns the biology of sex difference journal (to enhance the knowledge of sex and gender differences). Swhr convenes interdisciplinary working group members that include researchers, clinicians, patients, and other experts to address gaps in knowledge and unmet needs in women's health across the lifespan.
$895,169 spent48% of program spendingPolicy and advocacy - swhr seeks to increase federal funding for biomedical research for conditions that affect women and for sex differences research. Swhr seeks to ensure that women are included appropriately in clinical trials, that trial results (research findings) are analyzed for sex and gender differences, and that appropriate funding is provided for the offices of women's health at nih, hhs, and fda. Furthermore, swhr advocates for improved regulatory policy, coverage and payment policy, and private health plan policy to benefit the health of women.
$794,803 spent43% of program spendingCommunications - swhr educates women in the public about the value of biomedical research and the latest findings about disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment options.
$157,488 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,847,460.
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 $2.4M to $3.0M (+28%).
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: 2021 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH’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. 0 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
Kathryn Schubert Mpp Cae
President & CEO
Board chair
Erika Miller Jd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $170k → $25k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH’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
SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
81% 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 SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 50% · 2019 43% · 2020 63% · 2021 69% · 2022 94% · 2023 60% — growing more concentrated.
“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
20% of SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
78% of SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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
SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH
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
66%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH: 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 SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH?
- SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $714,231 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($385,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $714,231 in grants to SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $385,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY FOR WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH 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.
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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 17 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