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WOMEN LEAD INC

WOMEN LEAD INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,772,850 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A JUST SOCIETY ($1,273,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2026
$398k
Funders on record
8
Grants received
$1.8M
Net assets
$962k
7/8 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year
01What it does

What Women Lead Inc does

Mission

To provide young women in nepal with skills, support, and opportunities to become leaders and change markers in their schools, communities, nation and world.

As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.

Program

  1. Women lead nepal continued to advance feminist leadership and youth engagement through its flagship, short-term, outreach, public engagement, and alumni programs. The lead course and young womens political leadership course (ywplc) graduated 45 young women, while short-term courses such as rise to lead and feminism now expanded access to leadership and civic education. Outreach programs in sarlahi and lamjung engaged young people in leadership, gender equality, and allyship, with alumni playing key roles as facilitators. Own it nepal 2026 brought together 254 young women for mentorship, learning,networking, and dialogue around feminist leadership. Women lead nepal also strengthened its alumni network through financial literacy, governance training, leadership opportunities, and engagement in organizational governance and decision-making. Graduation of 26 leaders during. Women leads school leadership program (slp) is one of the major highlights of the lead program, in which our lead course leaders (adolescent girls) co-lead weekly workshops for younger students over four months. Slp serves as a two-way learning process for leaders, and slp students as school-level students are…

    $283,254 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2026 Form 990. Program spending in total: $283,254.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.

100 = 20182018 Revenue 100 ($116k) Expenses 100 ($115k) Net assets 100 ($47k)2020 Revenue 230 ($266k) Expenses 128 ($147k) Net assets 828 ($386k)2021 Revenue 235 ($271k) Expenses 151 ($174k) Net assets 1037 ($483k)2022 Revenue 333 ($384k) Expenses 132 ($152k) Net assets 1422 ($662k)2023 Revenue 254 ($293k) Expenses 93 ($107k) Net assets 1821 ($849k)2024 Revenue 331 ($382k) Expenses 278 ($320k) Net assets 1769 ($824k)2025 Revenue 329 ($380k) Expenses 348 ($401k) Net assets 1793 ($835k)2026 Revenue 344 ($398k) Expenses 260 ($299k) Net assets 2064 ($962k)
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Revenue (344)Expenses (260)Net assets (2064)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $662k to $849k (+28%).

$47k
$386k
$483k
$662k
$849k
$824k
$835k
$962k
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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.

2018
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

90% of WOMEN LEAD INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,940 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$331
’18
$119k
’20
$97k
’21
$232k
’22
$186k
’23
$63k
’24
−$21k
’25
$98k
’26
39
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.

2020202120222023202420252026
Listed7711668
Joined·+0···+0+3
No longer listed·0···01
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $3k → $375k.

2 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 LEAD 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 LEAD INC 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

72%
largest funder
97%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 96% · 2020 69% · 2021 80% · 2022 86% · 2023 76% — 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

50% of WOMEN LEAD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 88% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

WOMEN LEAD INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.

NY
CA
DC

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

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $265k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WOMEN LEAD INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 520 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin25% · top quartile
Months of reserve38.6mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 520 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026

Organizations like WOMEN LEAD 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 2%Fundraising 3%

Governance

66
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

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Questions and answers

Who funds WOMEN LEAD INC?
WOMEN LEAD INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,772,850 to it, the largest being FOUNDATION FOR A JUST SOCIETY ($1,273,500). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOMEN LEAD INC have?
IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,772,850 in grants to WOMEN LEAD INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMEN LEAD INC?
FOUNDATION FOR A JUST SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with $1,273,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMEN LEAD INC 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 FY2026 (financials across 2018–2026), 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing