Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,375 to it, the largest being HEARTS PATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($435,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $234k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $853k
- Net assets
- $78k
What Women Forward International does
Mission
Women Forward International (wfi) partners the next generation with nonprofit and private sector organizations and artists to implement solutions critical to human process, bridging mind and heart to bring about unity, collaboration, and service to humanity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Empowering india's artisan womenin partnership with the us-india friendship alliance, and with support from individuals, wfi is helping to build a crafts village that will serve as a training, production, and community space for women weavers who are preserving the treasured cultural heritage of himroo and other ancient indian weaving techniques. Located next door to the unesco world heritage site, the ellora caves near mumbai, the crafts village is already conducing training activities through its himroo fabrics production unit. To date, 30 women have participated in technical skills training, and 15 women have completed the program and are currently working as professional weavers. The initiative also provides opportunities for continued skills development, professional growth, and increased participation in the textile economy.wfi has also brought teams from the parsons school of design and design students in india together to help market the "zarizar,com" website, the proceeds of which all go towards making the crafts village and training center for women weavers independent and self-sustaining. Wfi's next collaboration with parsons will be a "design sprint" planned for fall…
$114,212 spentof which $80,325 as grants56% of program spendingSharing the abundance: implementing a food rescue model in mexicoduring 2025, wfi completed its successful pilot program, wings of love, in veracruz with the universidad veracruzana and expanded it to oaxaca by establishing partnerships with the universidad benito jaures, the guelaguetza rotary club, the oaxaca food bank, and think up university collective to strengthen local food recovery efforts and community engagement. The purpose of wings of love is to spread a new paradigm of philanthropy based on the concept of "shared abundance and the idea that this is not "charity" but rather a natural response by the community to ensure everyone has access to the abundance of resources available to them. Inspired by the collaborative food rescue approach developed by the founder of the white pony express in california, which wfi previously supported through graduate student teams and grant funding, wings of love adapts this model to the mexican context by connecting universities, food banks, rotary clubs, businesses, and community organizations to recover and redistribute surplus food and reduce food waste, which is among the greatest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.as women…
$50,354 spentof which $16,500 as grants25% of program spendingOnline education for afghan women in afghanistanrestrictions on women's access to education and employment continue to create significant barriers for afghan women and girls. In response, five years ago Women Forward International (wfi), brought together our partners in afghanistan with lynn university's education faculty and students and icohere, a tech company in california, to build a new computer laboratory and develop a secure online platform to accommodate access to higher education preparation, professional development, and career-oriented learning opportunities for college-age afghan women. In 2025, wfi supported a six month leadership training course for a cohort of 22 afghan women and prepared for its 2026 artificial intelligence workshop series to include wfi's network of mentors as well as lynn university faculty. The program is designed to provide flexible, technology-enabled education that can continue despite changing local conditions.
$22,245 spentof which $7,500 as grants11% of program spendingEmpowering international students in the united statessince 2023, Women Forward International (wfi) has partnered with california high schools and the woven teaching program of the woven foundation to expand human rights education opportunities for newcomer students. Many participating students are recent arrivals to the united states and are navigating the transition to a new educational system, language environment, and community. During 20252026, in partnership with woven teaching, wfi delivered a series of workshops on the history and principles of the universal declaration of human rights to over 100 international high school students. Wfi also organized a culminating educational visit to the university of california, berkeley, where the high school students presented their original poetry inspired by their readings of the declaration and human rights defenders. They also met with university student mentors from the international house at uc berkeley who shared their knowledge of navigating both the uc berkeley and community college application process. Wfi also engaged the admissions officers of both university systems to provide an overview of the application nprocess to…
$17,251 spentof which $4,070 as grants8% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $204,062.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $246k to $67k (−73%).
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 56% · 2021 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Board chair
Roberto Salinas-Leon Phd
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell $275k → $72k.
3 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 FORWARD INTERNATIONAL’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 FORWARD INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
36% 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 FORWARD INTERNATIONAL.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 33% · 2023 28% — 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
75% of WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL's funders are still giving 1 year 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
WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $251k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 FORWARD INTERNATIONAL's revenue fell 63% between 2020 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,673 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
64%
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 FORWARD INTERNATIONAL: 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 FORWARD INTERNATIONAL?
- WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $853,375 to it, the largest being HEARTS PATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ($435,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $853,375 in grants to WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL?
- HEARTS PATH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN FORWARD INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing