Illinois · Nonprofit
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,706,990 to it, the largest being DELOITTE FOUNDATION ($1,540,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $8.7M
- Net assets
- $10M
What Society of Women Engineers does
Mission
The society's mission is to stimulate women to achieve full potential in careers as engineers and leaders, expand the image of the engineering profession as a positive force in improving the quality of life, and demonstrate the value of diversity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Young women are encouraged to enter the engineering field. Scholarships were awarded to female students.
$3,751,602 spentof which $180,845 as grants$1,787,954 earned by the program26% of program spendingSwe annual conference is the largest professional development program for female engineering students and engineers.
$5,457,318 spent$12,912,043 earned by the program38% of program spendingSwe magazine is published by the Society of Women Engineers five times per year and sent to all members and other interested parties.
$357,008 spent$260,135 earned by the program2% of program spendingExxec, we local, professional programs, student programs, grants, we global, membership, advocacy.
$4,807,024 spent33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $14,372,952.
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 2022 to 2023, from $14M to $18M (+29%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Karen Horting
Executive director & CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $22k → $2.2M.
12 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Society of Women Engineers Endowment Fund Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS raised.
From the IRS filings of SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
48% 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 OF WOMEN ENGINEERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 22% · 2019 95% · 2020 25% · 2021 21% · 2022 13% · 2023 35% — 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
54% of SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 23 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 OF WOMEN ENGINEERS's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 23 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 366 community improvement nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- National Science Foundation$2.1M
- Department of Defense$968k
- Department of State$171k
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$161k
- Department of Commerce$22k
- Department of Justice$18k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Society of Women Engineers Endowment Fund Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS: 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 OF WOMEN ENGINEERS?
- SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (Illinois) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,706,990 to it, the largest being DELOITTE FOUNDATION ($1,540,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $8,706,990 in grants to SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS?
- DELOITTE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,540,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 60 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