North Carolina · Nonprofit
WOMEN LEADING ED
WOMEN LEADING ED (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,400 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WOMEN LEADING ED runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 22,771 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 22,771 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
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.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared funders
- Barbara Lee Family Foundation Incportfolio match
- Our American Future Foundationportfolio match
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 3 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 LEADING ED’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 LEADING ED leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“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 LEADING ED draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 2 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
- Barbara Lee Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Our American Future Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pivotal Philanthropies Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aditi Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Billie Jean King Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Principle Quest Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Channel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Womens Funding Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Moriah Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anderson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Center for American Progressportfolio 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.
Government funding WOMEN LEADING ED receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- Registration for Meetings&Conf$3k
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 LEADING ED
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN LEADING ED: 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 LEADING ED?
- WOMEN LEADING ED (North Carolina) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $330,400 to it, the largest being Walton Family Foundation Inc ($250,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN LEADING ED have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $330,400 in grants to WOMEN LEADING ED.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN LEADING ED?
- Walton Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $250,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN LEADING ED find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 3funders 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