Ohio · Nonprofit
WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,881 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($161,320). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $675k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $403k
- Net assets
- $412k
What Women for Economic and Leadership Development does
Mission
Weld develops and advances women's leadership to strengthen the economic prosperity of the communities it serves.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Weld has diversified its membership footprint to now cover 16 states. The combination of its in-person programs and virtual program lineup has delivered value to its members. Its member-only programs include: new and renewing member programs, board programs and specialty programs. Its corporate member only programs include the executive women's series and business resource groups best practices series. Certain membership classes are able to attend either the tell it like it is thursday webinar series programs or e-chapter webinar programs for free. Members continue to receive deep registration discounts relative to non-members.
$185,419 spent26% of program spendingKeynote: the weld columbus chapter held a keynote in 2025. The event featured melinda davenport, who at the time, was vice president of messaging and talent marketing at equinix (nasdaq: eqix). She is a strategic communications executive and member of the advisory boards charm industrial and boston common golf. Her topic was "outthink. Outlead. Outlast. The ai revolution and your power move." corporate board conference: for over 15 years, weld has provided corporate board training and board journey preparation as one of its core offerings. Its 2025 sold-out conference featured susan rector, board chair, peoples bancorp inc. (nasdaq: pebo) and peoples bank, and robert h. Schottenstein, chairman of the board, chief executive officer and president of m/I homes, inc. (nyse: mho) and independent director for installed building products (nyse: ibp), as its keynote dinner "fireside chat" speakers. Colleen marshall, news anchor, nbc4, wcmh-tv, moderated the session where she shared key learnings about her board and executive journey and provided excellent strategies for individuals to pursue corporate board seats. The event also included sessions with 13 other directors. The conference…
$356,704 spent$171,945 earned by the program50% of program spendingWeld holds educational programs to teach skills useful for leaders at various stages in their careers. Typically, these are a blend of in-person and virtual events. These events include the emerging professional series programs targeted to those just starting out in their careers, the leadership series programs targeted to mid-career professionals covering a wide range of topics and an executive women's series for senior leaders and c-suite executives. Weld continued to offer several programs with shrm, cpe and oh cle. Weld launched a full year of board programs/c-suite series designed to help women obtain their first seat on a nonprofit board. The topics focused on public company financials, nonprofit financials, preparing for the board interview and other board preparation topics. Weld also conducted its annual certificate program on government boards and commissions governance skills training. Weld conducted several new member programs across its chapter base and also hosted its annual affinity groups best practices session for its corporate members. Weld also conducted cohort-based leadership programs designed to prepare and help women achieve their first promotion into…
$168,859 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $710,982.
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 2024 to 2025, from $737k to $599k (−19%).
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: 2020 14% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (84% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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.
Board chair
Colleen Philabaum
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $10k → $99k.
4 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT’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 FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 3 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
66% 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 ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 52% · 2019 61% · 2020 40% · 2021 74% · 2022 32% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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
43% of WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
67% of WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $178k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT is better cushioned than half of the 1,934 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,934 public benefit nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT?
- WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (Ohio) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $402,881 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($161,320). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $402,881 in grants to WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT?
- COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $161,320 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN FOR ECONOMIC AND LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 16 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