Illinois · Nonprofit
WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS
WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,943 to it, the largest being The Christopher Family Foundation ($87,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 11,754 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,754 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- University of Chicagoshared funders
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio match
- The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girlsportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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.
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.
97% of WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $3k → $47k.
4 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS’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 INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
52% 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 INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 60% · 2023 64% — 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
99% of WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $43k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 9 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- University of Chicagoshared fundersIL · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- A New Way of Life Reentry Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girlsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mary's Penceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bob Barker Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Serving USA Inc Fka Serving Californiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- G Andrew Franz Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Wayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Southern Communities Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wild Gifting Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Criminal Justice Reform Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Renee L McGuire Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS?
- WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS (Illinois) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $189,943 to it, the largest being The Christopher Family Foundation ($87,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $189,943 in grants to WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS?
- The Christopher Family Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $87,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN INITIATING NEW DIRECTIONS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2024–2025), and the filings of 9funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing