Minnesota · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC
WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,770,108 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($685,060). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.9M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $4.8M
- Net assets
- $9.6M
What Women's Advocates Inc does
Mission
The mission of women's advocates is to walk with victim/survivors and our community to break the cycle of domestic violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Shelter-based advocacy services while in shelter, residents are encouraged to start their healing journey by working with our family & legal support advocates and attending our mental health and wellness programming. Our crisis resource advocates handle resident requests at the front desk 24/7 and provide crisis line callers with referrals to emergency shelter, community resources, safety planning services, and emotional support. In fy2023-2024, 954 people received our crisis interventions and shelter referral services via the crisis line. Regular support groups help residents cope with the trauma of their past and work to build positive futures for themselves and their families. Our mental health & wellness counselor teaches self-care and mindfulness techniques that center the mind, body, and spirit. Our family & legal support advocates work with victim-survivors to create personal goal plans and work within the legal system to write orders for protection and negotiate lease terminations.
$1,522,618 spentof which $558,063 as grants37% of program spendingHousing stability services our housing stability program utilizes a broad array of government and private funding to provide housing navigation and eviction prevention services to residents of our shelter and victim-survivors in the community experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. Our housing stability advocates work with participants to remove barriers to housing, negotiate with landlords to find safe, stable rentals that participants can afford, and provide participants with flexible financial assistance for expenses for up to 60 months depending on funding source. In fy24-25, our housing stability program served 123 households.
$1,140,913 spent$110,778 earned by the program28% of program spendingShelter food and facilitiesfor 50 years, providing safe shelter for victim-survivors of domestic violence has been at the heart of women's advocates' mission. Emergency shelter provides victim-survivors of domestic violence and their children with up to 90 days of safe respite shelter with meals and supportive services. Our shelter space consists of 15 bedrooms, 7 resident bathrooms, and a commercial kitchen where three meals each day are prepared for our residents seeking shelter and safety from abusive situations. Residents have access to laundry facilities, personal computers, a living room, dining room, and secure children's playground. Our emergency shelter programs served 236 individuals in fy 2024-2025, including 119 adults and 117 children with an 86-day average length of stay. Shelter food & facilities provides a secure, safe home for residents. Sheila wellstone children's program and lean on me youth intervention offers drop-in childcare services, after-school homework space, educational advocacy with schools, youth mentorship, recreational activities, and healing supports to help meet the socio-emotional needs of children who have witnessed domestic violence. Housing…
$688,418 spent17% of program spendingOutreach and youth engagement programmingthe outreach team provides community-based dv advocacy through pop-up advocacy events which held twice weekly in community settings such as the rondo community outreach library. In fy2024-2025, pop-up advocacy connected 1,949 community members with resources, dv education, and advocacy. Our youth engagement team also conducts street outreach to help reach young adults aged 18-24 who may be at risk for or experiencing commercial sexual exploitation/trafficking, while our lean on me program provides mentorship opportunities for older youth during their shelter stay. Women's advocates is committed to preventing domestic violence in our communities through virtual and in person education and training for community members and professionals such as teachers, healthcare providers, and others who serve victim-survivors and their families. In 2024-2025, our community education and training program trained 988 community members to recognize the warning signs, dynamics, and impact of abuse through 35 events.
$717,520 spent18% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,069,469.
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 $3.5M to $8.4M (+137%).
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 79% · 2018 77% · 2019 70% · 2020 68% · 2021 77% · 2022 68% · 2023 73% · 2024 80% · 2025 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (39% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Holly Henning
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $117k → $622k.
14 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 33% 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'S ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 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'S ADVOCATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 7 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 7 funders to its left
53% 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'S ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 44% · 2019 29% · 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 16% — 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
49% of WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
83% of WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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'S ADVOCATES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,367 housing & shelter nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.9M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$510k
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'S ADVOCATES 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 Minnesota
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
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Cleveland Avenue Project LLC · disregarded
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC?
- WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,770,108 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($685,060). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $4,770,108 in grants to WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $685,060 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S ADVOCATES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 63 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