Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania
The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,001,134 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $385k
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $94k
What The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania does
Mission
The Women and Girls Foundation (WGF) is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania engaged in statewide programming and policy work. The mission of WGF is to achieve equality for women and girls, now and for generations to come. In pursuit of this mission, WGF breaks down barriers so that every girl can rise and every woman can soar. Our vision is for women and girls in PA to have equal access, oppurtunity, and influence in all aspects of their public and private lives. WGF's core programs include: GirlGov; Femisphere; and Paid Leave for Pennsylvania.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GirlGov: Is WGFs successful civic engagement program designed to ignite high school-aged women and femmes passion for social justice; cultivate their critical thinking, spark their interest in careers in public service, build their understanding of history and government, and prepare them as our next generation of voters, leaders, and change-makers. We accept teens from anywhere in Southwest PA and are proud to announce that we have a diverse cohort of participants from over 40 different high schools. The entire GirlGov program is offered free of charge year-round. Recognizing past barriers to participation, particularly for students of color and those from resource-limited families, WGF expanded GirlGov to reach middle school-aged youth in 2024. This expansion aims to create an early pipeline for students facing barriers, focusing on girls of color, girls from New American families, and girls from low to middle-income families.
$345,292 spent$1,500 earned by the program84% of program spendingFemisphere: COVID-19 and the succeeding economic inflation impacted everyone, but women, especially women of color are bearing a much bigger burden. Women are four times more likely than men to have lost work since the pandemic began. They also are more likely to be low-wage, front line workers, at greater risk of catching the virus, yet without access to paid family or medical leave. Covid-19 exposed our current system for being inequitable, inefficient, unhealthy, and unjust. In total, more than 2.3 million women were pushed out of the workforce in 2020 alone (National Womens Law Center, March 2021). Every day WGF is working with coalition partners, at the local, state, and federal levels, advocating for women to be central to economic recovery plans. This means family sustaining workplace policies including increases to the minimum wage, paid sick days, paid family leave, access to affordable healthcare, transportation, and child care.
$65,839 spent$200 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $411,131.
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 $495k to $848k (+71%).
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 6% · 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $160k → $692k.
10 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
45% 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 Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 49% · 2019 48% · 2020 23% · 2021 35% · 2022 46% · 2023 58% — 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
37% of The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
76% of The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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 Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania: 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 Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania?
- The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,001,134 to it, the largest being THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS ($1,150,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $4,001,134 in grants to The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania?
- THE HEINZ ENDOWMENTS is the largest funder on record, with $1,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Women and Girls Foundation of Southwest Pennsylvania 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 37 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