Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,260 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($905,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $379k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $85k
What Women in International Security does
Mission
Women in International Security (wiis) is a non-governmental organization that champions gender equality by helping women advance as leaders in the international peace and security sector. Founded in 1987, wiis provides professional development opportunities, conducts gender research and policy analysis, holds prestigious events, and nurtures a community of powerful mentors, scholars, and leaders committed to closing the gender equality gap worldwide.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The women peace and security program advances the understanding and knowledge of gender in national and international security and how redressing gender inequalities can resolve and mitigate 21st-century security challenges. The program works to achieve the women peace and security agenda by conducting gender research and analysis, holding expert policy roundtables, and providing professional growth opportunities for a diverse group of security experts, including convening the next generation of gender scholars and practitioners- and nurturing a global community of mentors, advocates, experts, and leaders.
$213,176 spent$18,133 earned by the program45% of program spendingThrough its training modules, audits, and gender assessment tool, the wiis women in defense & security program supports security organizations and u.s. Partner nations in assessing progress in implementing the women, peace, and security agenda to advance gender equality and women's leadership in the security sector. Since 2013, the program's combat integration initiative has monitored, evaluated, and published data on women's full integration into u.s. Military combat operations.
$94,745 spent$7,632 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe membership engagement program serves the needs of wiis' growing global constituency of institutional and individual members, enhancing their ability to address the global gender gap and thrive in their careers in the peace and security sector.
$94,745 spent20% of program spendingWomen, peace and security and the private sector: local and national conflicts escape borders, threatening regional stability. Wiis' long-standing engagement with regional and multilateral security organizations on issues of gender equality and security show how gender integration into security institutions and practices can produce more effective responses to collective security challenges.
$71,059 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $473,725.
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 $297k to $147k (−50%).
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.
92% of WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (100% 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
Min Kyriannis
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $283k → $237k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY’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 INTERNATIONAL SECURITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 52% — 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.
Where its funders are
WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY's revenue fell 18% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,468 international nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $177k on record.
- Department of Defense$177k
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 IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
40%
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 IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY: 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 IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY?
- WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,264,260 to it, the largest being CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK ($905,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,264,260 in grants to WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY?
- CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $905,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN IN INTERNATIONAL SECURITY 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.
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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 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