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WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,120 to it, the largest being AARP ($81,445). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$778k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$128k
Net assets
$251k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 5%
01What it does

What Women in Government Relations Inc does

Mission

Women in government relations (wgr) is dedicated to advancing and empowering women by fostering professional development and growth opportunities through a community that supports women's leadership in government relations.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Pwia conference and eia awards: wgr's annual conference provides gr professionals personal and professional development education to successfully represent their organization or cause. In 2024, there were 223 attendees at an in-person conference.

  2. Dei summit: the diversity, equity & inclusion (dei) virtual summit, is a single event with content spread across 2 days that provides personal and professional development for government relations professionals allowing them to engage in critical conversations and exercises around relevant topics that will equip them with the tools to improve their congressional reception: celebrate the accomplishments of our personal relationships and workplaces. There were 87 in attendance virtually.

  3. Governors reception: this reception brings together over 132 state government relations professionals in dc. This event honors both a governor and a female staff leader and includes opportunities to network and build relationships.

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($633k) Expenses 100 ($569k) Net assets 100 ($319k)2018 Revenue 86 ($546k) Expenses 108 ($612k) Net assets 81 ($258k)2019 Revenue 100 ($633k) Expenses 109 ($619k) Net assets 98 ($311k)2020 Revenue 107 ($679k) Expenses 100 ($567k) Net assets 136 ($434k)2021 Revenue 130 ($825k) Expenses 97 ($554k) Net assets 223 ($709k)2022 Revenue 147 ($930k) Expenses 142 ($808k) Net assets 232 ($738k)2023 Revenue 95 ($601k) Expenses 168 ($957k) Net assets 133 ($425k)2024 Revenue 123 ($778k) Expenses 165 ($941k) Net assets 79 ($251k)
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Revenue (123)Expenses (165)Net assets (79)

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 $606k to $915k (+51%).

$407k
$421k
$485k
$606k
$915k
$779k
$605k
$462k
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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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$64k
’17
−$66k
’18
$13k
’19
$111k
’20
$271k
’21
$122k
’22
−$356k
’23
−$163k
’24
0.6
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

Jen Brydges

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed2018211916161619
Joined·+6+8+3+2+7+1+4
No longer listed·8555711
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $1k → $10k.

From the IRS filings of WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC’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 IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC.

64%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 70% · 2021 72% · 2022 40% · 2023 100% — 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.

Where its funders are

WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 5 states in all.

NY
IN
MO
MD
DC

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

’18
’20
’21
’22
’23
Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

Organizations like WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS 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 Virginia

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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Questions and answers

Who funds WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC?
WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC (Virginia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $128,120 to it, the largest being AARP ($81,445). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $128,120 in grants to WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC?
AARP is the largest funder on record, with $81,445 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMEN IN GOVERNMENT RELATIONS INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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