Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP
WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,905 to it, the largest being MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $539
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $8k
- Net assets
- $7k
What Women Action & the Media Corp does
Mission
Gender equity in media access, representation, employment and ownership and a world in which a just media is considered essential to a just society. Women, action & the media (wam) connects and supports media makers, activists, academics and funders working to advance womens media participation, ownership and representation. Our work is part of an advocacy movement for gender justice in media.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Women, action & the media (wam)is a people-powered independent nonprofit dedicated to building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in media. We built a brand-new website, designed to support our new project, the wam community action network (wamcan). In late may, we launched our first wamcan action, the incredibly successful fbrape campaign, which forced facebook to start treating content that promotes or makes light of gender-based violence as hate speech. Our chapters continue to thrive, and the past 12 months have seen the creation of new chapters in ottawa and in chicago, as well as the beginning of a chapter in dc, which will bring us to 7 volunteer-run chapters across north america. Wam it yourself, our annual decentralized conference, was a success again this year, featuring 14 events in 7 cities and online, engaging hundreds of wammers over the course of two weeks in march. Women, action & the media (wam)is a people-powered independent nonprofit dedicated to building a robust, effective, inclusive movement for gender justice in media. Wam connects and supports media makers, activists, academics and funders working to advance womens media…
The first program described on its most recent Form 990-EZ.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $19k to $7k (−62%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell $8k → $405.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP’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
WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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
95% 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 WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 99% — broadly stable.
“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
WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
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In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
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 WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP: 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 WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP?
- WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP (Massachusetts) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,905 to it, the largest being MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ($7,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $7,905 in grants to WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP?
- MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER is the largest funder on record, with $7,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN ACTION & THE MEDIA CORP 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 3 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