Massachusetts · Nonprofit
THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC
THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,437,238 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($972,191). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 74
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What The Jewish Women's Archive Inc does
Mission
The jewish women's archive documents jewish women's stories, elevates their voices, and inspires them to be agents of change.jwa is dedicated to expanding and transforming the historical narrative by restoring jewish women and gender expansive people to their rightful place. Jwa is the world's largest source of information about jewish women, providing insight and context for today's world and enabling people of all genders and backgrounds to envision and work towards a more just and equitable future.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Jwa's virtual programs - book talks, film club, and history courses - engage a global community of thousands in meaningful learning and conversations with writers, artists, and scholars. Participants in jwa's communityonline, in person, and through our social media and podcast testify to the ways jwa's deep and thoughtful content has transformed their perspectives on the world and their place in it. Jwa's rising voices fellowship, now in its 11th year as a national program, provides training and mentorship to a select, national cohort of female-identified and non-binary teens who learn leadership skills through in-person and virtual retreats and monthly discussions on feminism, judaism, and social justice. Jwa continues to offer support to the active alumnae community of more than 160 graduates, who are taking on issues such as sexual consent in jewish youth groups, climate change, and antisemitism with boldness and clarity, exemplifying the impact of jwa's training. Jwa recently launched the nicki newman tanner oral history collection, making more than 300 oral histories we had collected over the past 25 years accessible and searchable on our site. These interviews illustrate how…
$1,047,864 spent$1,515,672 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,047,864.
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 $6.1M to $5.2M (−14%).
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.
68% of THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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
Judith Rosenbaum
Executive director
Board chair
Rabbi Carole Balin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 18 funders to 32 funders, grant income rose $371k → $550k.
20 of 74 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 74 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 JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
68% 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 JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 23% · 2019 21% · 2020 25% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% — 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
52% of THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
59% of THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC'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 $1.8M that is directly attributable, 70% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 17 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M 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
THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $210k on record.
- National Endowment for the Humanities$210k
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 THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
65% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
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 THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC: 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 JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC?
- THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 74 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,437,238 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($972,191). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC have?
- IRS filings report 74 organizations giving $4,437,238 in grants to THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $972,191 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE JEWISH WOMEN'S ARCHIVE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 74 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