Washington · Nonprofit
Women Helping Women Fund
Women Helping Women Fund (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,464 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($562,089). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $853k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $3.1M
What Women Helping Women Fund does
Mission
Empowering Spokane area women and children to achieve their fullest potential, by building a strong, diverse community of educated, engaged, and strategic givers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Women Helping Women Fund (WHWF) supports women and children in Spokane County through grantmaking and scholarships. Since 1992, WHWF has invested more than $7 million in nonprofit grants and educational scholarships. During the reporting year, WHWF awarded grants to 17 nonprofit organizations and scholarships to 13 mothers pursuing higher education. The objective of this program is to pool individual donor contributions to provide financial resources to organizations and individuals addressing community needs. WHWF's long-term goal is to strengthen outcomes for women and children by sustaining community-based organizations and reducing financial barriers to education through ongoing collective philanthropy.
$691,161 spentof which $362,375 as grants98% of program spendingWHWF produces the State of Women and Children in Spokane County report every three years and maintains a publicly available data dashboard to support data-driven grantmaking and community decision-making. During the reporting year, WHWF updated the public dashboard with the most current data for 20 indicators affecting women and children in Spokane County. The report and dashboard compile and analyze publicly available data and community input to identify trends, gaps, and emerging needs. The next report is scheduled for publication in 2026. The objective of this program is to provide accessible, reliable data to support strategic planning and collaboration among nonprofit organizations, funders, and community partners. (Continued on Schedule O)The long-term goal is to strengthen community responses and improve outcomes by aligning resources with documented needs.
$12,472 spentof which $19,073 as grants2% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $703,633.
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 2023 to 2024, from $911k to $2.9M (+219%).
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 0% · 2022 4% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of Women Helping Women Fund’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (73% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $100k → $138k.
8 of 27 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 Helping Women Fund’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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 Helping Women Fund leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 Helping Women Fund.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 69% · 2019 66% · 2020 62% · 2021 59% · 2022 53% · 2023 54% — 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
45% of Women Helping Women Fund's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 37% 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
59% of Women Helping Women Fund'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 $469k that is directly attributable, 88% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $679k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Helping Women Fund runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 904 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 unclassified nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Women Helping Women Fund
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
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
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Women Helping Women Fund: 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 Helping Women Fund?
- Women Helping Women Fund (Washington) receives grants from 27 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,148,464 to it, the largest being Innovia Foundation ($562,089). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Women Helping Women Fund have?
- IRS filings report 27 organizations giving $1,148,464 in grants to Women Helping Women Fund, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Women Helping Women Fund?
- Innovia Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $562,089 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Women Helping Women Fund find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 27 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