Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,320,376 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($15,326,986). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 87
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $5.4M
What Women Against Abuse Inc does
Mission
The mission of women against abuse is to provide quality, compassionate, and nonjudgmental services in a manner that fosters self-respect and independence in persons experiencing intimate partner violence and to lead the struggle to end domestic violence through advocacy and community education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Women against abuse is the lead operator of the philadelphia domestic violence hotline - a city-wide streamlined point of access for crisis intervention, safety planning, referrals and intake to the emergency shelters. This 24-hour hotline received around 9,022 calls in fy25.women against abuse also operates the only emergency shelters in philadelphia for people experiencing domestic violence. The two facilities, comprised of a total of 200 beds, are a refuge to more than 1,400 adults and children each year who have had to flee their homes to escape abuse. The emergency shelters are uniquely equipped with 24-hour security, confidential locations, and a continuum of on-site care, including case management, children's services and behavioral health therapy. The children's services team at women against abuse cares for the developmental and academic needs of the organization's youngest clients. Early learning centers for children aged 1-5 years are located at each of the emergency shelters, as well as sojourner house, and offer early education programming to help children achieve significant developmental milestones. Open each weekday from 9 am to noon and again from 1pm to 3pm,…
$7,960,285 spent62% of program spendingThe women against abuse legal center is among the first in the nation dedicated to survivors of domestic violence, and consists of a nearly 30-member team of experienced attorneys, paralegals, court advocates and telephone counselors. The women against abuse legal center empowers women and men who have been abused to navigate the justice system by providing free legal services to victims seeking protection from abuse orders, child custody and/or support. Last year, this program in conjunction with the affiliated women against abuse legal center, inc. Served 3,029 individualsin addition to its direct services, the legal center pioneers innovative programs to reach vulnerable populations and expand access to legal services, including: the telephone outreach project (top): a partnership between the legal center and the philadelphia police department, top provides follow-up assistance to people experiencing domestic violence who have called 9-1-1 and are at highest risk of lethality. "fast track" attorney representation program: to provide early intervention and representation for more victims, women against abuse has stationed staff attorneys in the two court rooms in philadelphia…
$2,934,860 spent23% of program spendingWomen against abuse ensures that survivors are not forced to return to abusive relationships due to financial or housing instability through the sojourner house and safe at home programs. Sojourner house is an 18-month transitional housing program of 15 apartment units. Residents benefit from on-site services such as case management, child care, behavioral health services, life-skills development, educational and employment opportunities, and housing options counseling. In fiscal year 2025, 62 adults and children received housing and support services at sojourner house.the safe at home program provides community-based case management, paired with housing assistance, to empower survivors to sustain their independence from an abusive partner. The program supports survivors of domestic violence to maintain safe and affordable housing while developing financial literacy and life-skills for long-term self-sufficiency. The safe at home program also aims to strengthen linkages between clients and community supports. The 111 people who benefitted from this program in fiscal year 2025 are better positioned to sustain safe housing and overcome obstacles that may compromise their families'…
$1,532,287 spent$106,811 earned by the program12% of program spendingPrevention: women against abuse also works to prevent domestic violence through community education and systems-change work. The organization provides safer (safety awareness for every relationship), a teen dating violence prevention curriculum that is empowering young people in local schools, to pursue healthy relationships and break intergenerational cycles of domestic violence. In addition, women against abuse's community educators train hundreds of first responders, law enforcement and a variety of social service professionals each year on the dynamics of domestic violence to enhance survivor safety. Lastly, women against abuse hosted its 17th annual ipledge campaign for domestic violence awareness month in october 2024. The 2024 campaign, unity, ncouraged community members to come together to prevent relationship violence, save lives, and create a safer philadelphia. Hundreds of community members, survivors and change-makers joined in this city-wide initiative. More than 6,000 people have signed women against abuse's pledge against violence through this campaign.systems-change work: in addition to these direct services, women against abuse leads the struggle to end domestic…
$415,432 spent3% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,842,864.
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 2022 to 2023, from $8.6M to $20M (+133%).
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: 2017 81% · 2018 81% · 2019 86% · 2020 87% · 2021 89% · 2022 85% · 2023 90% · 2024 93% · 2025 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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
Joanna Otero-Cruz
Exec dir & president
Board chair
Yvette Rouse
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 31 funders, grant income rose $1.9M → $2.3M.
16 of 87 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 AGAINST ABUSE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 87 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
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 AGAINST ABUSE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 85% · 2019 69% · 2020 69% · 2021 76% · 2022 83% · 2023 84% — 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
39% of WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
90% of WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $920k arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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
WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC's funding base is broadening — from 15 funders to 31 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,396 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $7.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$5.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
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 WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE 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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Women Against Abuse Legal Center · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC?
- WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 87 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,320,376 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($15,326,986). 50 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC have?
- IRS filings report 87 organizations giving $19,320,376 in grants to WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC, 50 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC?
- PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $15,326,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE INC 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.
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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 87 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