Texas · Nonprofit
WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC
WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,940,382 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($1,814,155). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $708k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $84k
What Women Involved in Nurturing Giving Sharing Inc does
Mission
To enroll low-income, uninsured women in central and south texas in a no-cost program to pay all charges related to breast cancer treatment and lifetime follow-up care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Wings has achieved remarkable success in fulfilling its mission of providing lifesaving care to uninsured women with breast cancer. Through evidence-based programming and strategic partnerships, wings has been able to eliminate all financial barriers, reduce emotional stress, and offer critical healthcare, educational, and referral services to its beneficiaries. One of the key measures of success for the wings program is the number of lives saved. With a five-year survival rate of 90% among program members, wings' results are competitive with national averages. Since our inception in 1999, wings has provided no-cost breast cancer treatment to uninsured women, offering a lifeline for those who would otherwise have limited or no access to healthcare. Wings achieved positive outcomes, collectively serving over 1,000 individuals in need of medical assistance, of those 825 women were directly served by the organization throughout the year. Central to wings' success is our ability to manage individual healthcare plans, medical records, insurance claims, program requirements, and engagement details through our database system. This technology enables the team to monitor, track, process,…
$632,339 spentof which $302,845 as grants84% of program spendingWings served a total of 1,000 individuals during 2021 (825 eligible/277 non-eligible). Eight-hundred twenty-five (825) were eligible and received no cost patient navigation services, medical care, and other benefits via three program modules. The three modules are: wings I - active care program comprehensive breast health care providing patient navigation services coordinate physican care plans including: mammograms, biopsies, labs, scans, surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy, doctor visits, medications, prosthetic supplies, etc. On average individuals served undergo treatment 2-3 years before being diagnosed cancer-free. Wings ii-continuum care is designed to support and transition participants from wings I - active care who are diagnosed in remission and cancer-free. Paricipants in remission continue to require medical care and treatment services for up to five years unless the cancer reoccurs and are then reenrolled into wings I. All care is coordinated by the wings team including: annual mammograms, biopsies labs, doctor visits, medication, prosthetic supplies, educational programming, resources and referral services etc, as well as, processing and payment of all health…
$53,741 spentof which $24,106 as grants7% of program spendingWings for life programming provides a wide array of program topics and benefits for all wings participants. To ensure all enrolled receive as many no-cost benefits and services available in the community to support their overall wellness, wings partners with sister-like community partners who provide adjunct products and services via their charity programs. Wings' fosters strong long-term community partnerships that collaborate to serve women diagnosed with breast cancer, in need of services wings does not provide to support their general-health, other focused medical care and treatment, educational workshops, and referral resources. Over the course year, wings has partnered with prevent blindness; licensed professional counselors; the american heart association-san antonio chapter, san antonio food bank, uthealth, methodist health system, baptist health system, wesley nurses, slew, thrivewell, and other community partners supplement wings for life benefits and programming. Wings produces uniquely focused programming activities that stimulate patient engagement with a diversity of topics fostering meaningful conversations about breast cancer, breast cancer care (pre-post surgery…
$63,110 spentof which $118,606 as grants8% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $749,190.
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 $396k to $98k (−75%).
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% · 2021 20% · 2022 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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
Ruth M Gonzales
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $292k → $241k.
2 of 8 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 INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 7 of 8 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 INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 85% · 2019 47% · 2020 95% · 2021 95% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
100% of WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $38k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,754 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC?
- WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC (Texas) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,940,382 to it, the largest being Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc ($1,814,155). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,940,382 in grants to WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC?
- Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,814,155 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN INVOLVED IN NURTURING GIVING SHARING INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 8 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