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THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE

THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation ($14,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$95k
Funders on record
2
Grants received
$27k
Net assets
$6k
0/2 repeat funders
01What it does

What The Womens Empowerment and Birth Equity Institute does

Mission

Black maternal health awareness & education

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. The Rest as Resistance We-Treat program provided a wellness experience focused on healing & meditation. It was designed to promote mental health and self-care. 88 people attended.

    $4,964 spent
    17% of program spending

  2. The Building Boldness Project provides workshops designed to empower Black women through self-advocacy, self-care, and healthcare navigation support. Over 200 have attended.

    $5,398 spent
    18% of program spending

  3. Flow & Thrive sessions led women in yoga and meditation. These wellness workshops are meant to focus on breath work & provide stress relief. 30 people attended during 2025.

    $4,455 spent
    15% of program spending

  4. Described in schedule o

    $14,569 spent
    50% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $29,386.

02The organization over time

Leadership and staff

Chief executive

Jonisha Brown

Executive director

Board chair

Brittany Watson

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'25*
total
funders
2

From the IRS filings of THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE’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

THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

47% 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 WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE.

53%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

“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.

Where its funders are

THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.

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NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $27k to it.

Operating margin1% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17,277 education nonprofits under $100k, FY2025

Organizations like THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE

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 North Carolina

National Coalition of Black Women Rising Inc74%Women Encouragement Living and Learning Place74%Birthright of Winston Salem Inc73%Women Leading 4 Wellness and Justice73%Benniegirl Healthy Lifestlye Branding & Events73%Mind Body Baby73%The Mercy House Pregnancy Resource Cente73%Women's Birth and Wellness Center Inc73%

Nationally

Black Doula Project Inc77%The Center for Black Women's Wellness Cbww Inc77%Birthing the Magic Collaborative76%Black Girls Mental Health Collective Foundation76%Cultivate Vibrance Inc76%Washington Area Women's Foundation75%The ALLICE Collective for Mental Health & Community Engagement75%Black Birth Justice Inc75%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Public support

0%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NC

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE: 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 WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE?
THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE (North Carolina) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,500 to it, the largest being The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation ($14,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE have?
IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $26,500 in grants to THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE.
Who is the largest funder of THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE?
The Molina Healthcare Charitable Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $14,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE WOMENS EMPOWERMENT AND BIRTH EQUITY INSTITUTE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2025–2025), and the filings of 2 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