Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,813,845 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($608,621). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $818k
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $1.8M
- Net assets
- $5.6M
What The Fund for Women and Girls does
Mission
The fund leads and unites the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have resources and opportunities to thrive.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Grantmaking program: the fund fosters change by providing grants to organizations and programs that address gender inequity in chester county. Since 1996 the organization has awarded over 4.2 million in 588 grants to over 90 organizations addressing the needs of women and girls across chester county. The fund operates multiple grantmaking programs; core grants, a community-led grantmaking program in which community members undergo training on trust-based philanthropy, nonprofit operations, and the fund's mission and research, gab, a program offered to high school youth across the county to educate them on philanthropy, community service and grantmaking, and impact grants, a program designed to address emerging needs/programs within the community.
$291,368 spentof which $221,000 as grants50% of program spendingAdvocacy program: the organization operates civicg+, a program offered to high school youth across the county to educate them on leadership, philanthropy, community service, civic engagement, and entrepreneurship. Other educational offerings include gender-focused community advocacy programs, research reports such as the blueprint report, and numerous communications related to our mission via print, email, and social media. By educating stakeholders and the community at large through research, stories, and experiences, the fund advocates for women and girls to have the resources and opportunities to thrive.
$288,034 spent50% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $579,402.
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 $5.8M to $4.7M (−19%).
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 7% · 2025 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Christina Norland
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $127k → $226k.
7 of 33 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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
THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
52% 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 THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 43% · 2018 44% · 2019 43% · 2020 31% · 2021 30% · 2022 32% · 2023 26% — 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
50% of THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
77% of THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $886k 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
THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: 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 THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS?
- THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,813,845 to it, the largest being Chester County Community Foundation ($608,621). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $1,813,845 in grants to THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS?
- Chester County Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $608,621 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 33 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