Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WOMEN IN TRANSITION
WOMEN IN TRANSITION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,004,042 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($3,169,294). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Women in Transition does
Mission
To empower people to attain safety, equality & justice, & build independent & self-sustaining lives for themselves & their children; & to pioneer collaborations with community partners to create an intolerance of gender- based violence, substance abuse & poverty.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Domestic violence services: wit provides supportive, empowerment counseling to individuals who are experiencing domestic violence. Phone counseling for survivors and their family and friends and 3rd party referrers are available through the philadelphia dv hotline and wit's lifeline. Survivors can receive one-on-one counseling and participation in weekly peer support groups. Wit counselors are trained and trauma-informed, and all sessions are free and confidential. Wit also offers education and prevention programs to help communities recognize and respond to domestic violence and gender-based violence. In fy'25, wit provided domestic violence-related telephone counseling and information to 1,929 callers, 1,363 hours of intensive individual counseling and advocacy services to 186 clients.
$920,826 spent$78,873 earned by the program95% of program spendingSubstance abuse intervention services: wit works with people who are struggling with addiction to drugs or alcohol. We help clients set goals, discover their unique strengths, and think through the challenges they will face during their recovery process. Services are provided free of cost and include supportive telephone counseling, peer support groups, and recovery management/relapse prevention. Wit offers 8-week-long recovery support groups in partnership with drug and alcohol treatment programs throughout philadelphia. These groups address both the substance abuse and domestic violence in people's lives. In fy'25, wit provided individual recovery support counseling to 42 clients and 95 people participated in our group sessions.
$48,465 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $969,291.
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 2017 to 2018, from $797k to $1.5M (+86%).
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: 2017 73% · 2018 71% · 2019 75% · 2020 76% · 2021 75% · 2022 72% · 2023 70% · 2024 72% · 2025 71%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of WOMEN IN TRANSITION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Melissa Landsmann Sphr Shrm-Scp
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 16 funders, grant income fell $459k → $439k.
6 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 TRANSITION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 IN TRANSITION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
87% 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 TRANSITION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 94% · 2019 86% · 2020 92% · 2021 79% · 2022 74% · 2023 78% — 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
60% of WOMEN IN TRANSITION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
97% of WOMEN IN TRANSITION's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k 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 IN TRANSITION's revenue grew 30% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN IN TRANSITION
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 IN TRANSITION: 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 TRANSITION?
- WOMEN IN TRANSITION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,004,042 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ($3,169,294). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN IN TRANSITION have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $4,004,042 in grants to WOMEN IN TRANSITION, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN IN TRANSITION?
- PENNSYLVANIA COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE is the largest funder on record, with $3,169,294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN IN TRANSITION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 39 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