New York · Nonprofit
Women for Afghan Women Inc
Women for Afghan Women Inc (New York) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,438,423 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($4,216,165). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $8.2M
- Funders on record
- 179
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Women for Afghan Women Inc does
Mission
Women for Afghan Women (WAW) is a grassroots civil society organization dedicated to protecting and promoting the rights of disenfranchised Afghan Women and girls in Afghanistan and the USA. ln particular, WAW works to help Afghan women and girls (see Schedule O for details).
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Support Centers and Shelters - Humanitarian Assistance to Vulnerable Population and Programs for Refugee Returnees and Internally Displaced Individuals- Women for Afghan Women (WAW) provides humanitarian assistance to thousands of vulnerable and in-need families across Afghanistan through its humanitarian assistance program. It also offers assistance with shelters and services for thousands of refugee returnees and internally displaced individuals. WAW also houses hundreds of kids who would have otherwise been living with their mothers in prisons without any access to appropriate nutrition, health services, or education opportunities. WAW also provided support to UNHCR operations in Afghanistan through warehouse management and logistic and technical services across Afghanistan.
$5,410,167 spent71% of program spendingCommunity Center and Advocacy - Two Community Centers located in the heart of the Afghan community in Queens, New York, and in Alexandria, Virginia, provide several pro bono programs and crisis services to Immigrants and refugee women, families, and children, including immigration and employment support, domestic violence counseling, mental health services, citizenship and language programs, and programs for senior citizens, and leadership training.
$2,256,292 spent29% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,666,459.
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 2020 to 2021, from $2.5M to $14M (+442%).
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 84% · 2020 24% · 2021 32% · 2022 20% · 2023 11% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Women for Afghan Women Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 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
Susan Aryan Antolin
Executive Director
Board chair
Annie Pforzheimer
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $979k → $1.2M.
31 of 179 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 for Afghan Women Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 179 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 for Afghan Women Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
68% 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 for Afghan Women Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 37% · 2019 49% · 2020 33% · 2021 49% · 2022 18% · 2023 29% — 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
36% of Women for Afghan Women Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
55% of Women for Afghan Women Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $6.9M that is directly attributable, 57% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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 for Afghan Women Inc receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $15M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,608 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding Women for Afghan Women Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.2M
- Department of Justice$1.9M
- Department of Homeland Security$950k
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 for Afghan Women 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% 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 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Women for Afghan Women Inc: 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 for Afghan Women Inc?
- Women for Afghan Women Inc (New York) receives grants from 179 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,438,423 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($4,216,165). 65 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Women for Afghan Women Inc have?
- IRS filings report 179 organizations giving $15,438,423 in grants to Women for Afghan Women Inc, 65 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Women for Afghan Women Inc?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $4,216,165 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Women for Afghan Women Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 179 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