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WOMEN AWARE

WOMEN AWARE (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,001 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ($388,106). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$104k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$481k
Net assets
$104k
5/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Women Aware does

Mission

Transform the emotional and economic future of individuals in transition through advocacy, education, information and referral. A special emphasis is placed on increasing financial stability

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Displaced homemaker program - responds to needs of individuals who are the sole support of their families

    $89,209 spentof which $3,762 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $89,209.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($128k) Expenses 100 ($141k) Net assets 100 ($111k)2018 Revenue 119 ($152k) Expenses 101 ($143k) Net assets 109 ($120k)2019 Revenue 94 ($121k) Expenses 86 ($121k) Net assets 109 ($120k)2020 Revenue 83 ($106k) Expenses 83 ($117k) Net assets 99 ($109k)2021 Revenue 105 ($134k) Expenses 90 ($127k) Net assets 106 ($118k)2022 Revenue 130 ($167k) Expenses 90 ($128k) Net assets 140 ($155k)2023 Revenue 75 ($96k) Expenses 98 ($139k) Net assets 102 ($112k)2024 Revenue 64 ($82k) Expenses 71 ($100k) Net assets 86 ($95k)2025 Revenue 81 ($104k) Expenses 67 ($94k) Net assets 94 ($104k)
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Revenue (81)Expenses (67)Net assets (94)Peer revenue range

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 $136k to $163k (+20%).

$124k
$129k
$126k
$129k
$136k
$163k
$170k
$144k
$138k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 11% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of WOMEN AWARE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$13k
’17
$9k
’18
$9
’19
−$11k
’20
$7k
’21
$39k
’22
−$43k
’23
−$18k
’24
$10k
’25
15
months of
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

Carter Smith

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023, and between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed141615191614151312
Joined·+6+3+14+4+4+4+6+6
No longer listed·441076387
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $50k → $49k.

2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 AWARE’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 AWARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 AWARE.

81%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 98% · 2019 65% · 2020 81% · 2021 69% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — 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.

How long its funders stay

50% of WOMEN AWARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

98% of WOMEN AWARE's grant income comes from Iowa funders.

WI
SD
IA

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Iowa out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WOMEN AWARE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · above the median
Months of reserve14.7mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WOMEN AWARE

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN AWARE: 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 AWARE?
WOMEN AWARE (Iowa) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $481,001 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC ($388,106). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOMEN AWARE have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $481,001 in grants to WOMEN AWARE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMEN AWARE?
UNITED WAY OF SIOUXLAND INC is the largest funder on record, with $388,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMEN AWARE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 9 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