New York · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S E-NEWS
WOMEN'S E-NEWS (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $900,426 to it, the largest being THE LOREEN ARBUS FOUNDATION ($486,625). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $95k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $900k
- Net assets
- $82k
What Women's E-News does
Mission
Womens enews is the defintive source of substantitive news - unavailable anywhere else, covering issues of particular concern to women and providing womens perspective of public policy. It enhances womens ability to define their own lives and to participate fully in every sector of human endeavor.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Each fall, womens enews hosts an annual gala, 21 leaders for the 21 leaders for the 21st century,honoring the achievements of a reader nominated group of 20 women and one man who have bettered the lives of women and girls around the world. Womens enews hosts special events regulary hosting special events-independent and collaboratie and book discussions furthering its mission to be the definitive news source on issues of particular concern to women.
$100,629 spentof which $500 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $100,629.
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 2017 to 2018, from $155k to $90k (−42%).
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.
100% of WOMEN'S E-NEWS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Lori Sokol
Executive director
Board chair
Alice Dear
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $395 → $147k.
4 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 E-NEWS’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'S E-NEWS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 54% · 2019 64% · 2020 55% · 2021 53% · 2022 55% · 2023 51% — 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
31% of WOMEN'S E-NEWS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
WOMEN'S E-NEWS draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $87k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 E-NEWS's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 5 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,787 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like WOMEN'S E-NEWS
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN'S E-NEWS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S E-NEWS?
- WOMEN'S E-NEWS (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $900,426 to it, the largest being THE LOREEN ARBUS FOUNDATION ($486,625). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S E-NEWS have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $900,426 in grants to WOMEN'S E-NEWS, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S E-NEWS?
- THE LOREEN ARBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $486,625 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S E-NEWS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 17 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