New York · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,034,616 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $35M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Women's Housing & Economic Development Corporation does
Mission
The women's housing and economic development corp. (whedco) is a community development organization founded on the radically simple idea that all people deserve to live in healthy, vibrant communities. Working in the south bronx, whedco builds award-winning, sustainable, affordable homes that serve as anchors for strong communities of which residents can be proud. Whedco's mission is to create and bridge access in the bronx to resources that support thriving neighborhoods - from stable, affordable housing to high-quality early childhood and school-age youth education programs, comprehensive family and community services, business and entrepreneur assistance, and cultural programming.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Programs relating to the provision of home-based child care for low-income residents of new york city:whedco supports a professional network of 300 licensed home-based childcare businesses and works with thousands of informal friend-family-neighbor care providers to increase access to high quality affordable childcare across the bronx and nyc. Whedco supports childcare providers through comprehensive professional development training, coaching, technical assistance, program visits, access to the child and adult care food program, mental health services, implementation of research-based curricula and assessment tools to support the development and early learning of children in care.
$15,410,756 spent58% of program spendingAfter-school, extended day, summer camp, and teen college access programs for low-income youth:whedco operates after school, extended day, summer camp, and teen programs serving more than 1,200 bronx students in kindergarten through 12th grade. Whedco offers ela, stem, arts, sports, chess, social justice, youth leadership, peer education, internships and other work experience, tutoring, test prep, and support to access high performing high schools and college.
$3,888,585 spent$115,502 earned by the program15% of program spendingHead start preschool for low-income 3 and 4 year olds:whedco operates a year-round head start preschool serving 103 children and their families, and promoting early childhood development and early learning. Whedco also offers a family literacy program to head start parents.
$2,691,179 spent10% of program spendingOther programs relating to family support, counseling, emergency food pantry, community engagement, neighborhood revitalization, affordable housing development, performing arts and arts education through the bronx music heritage center and bronx music hall, small business development, food business incubation, and program research & evaluation, with an emphasis on low-income women and their families.
$4,521,483 spent$682,747 earned by the program17% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $26,512,003.
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 2022 to 2023, from $42M to $60M (+43%).
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 80% · 2020 88% · 2021 68% · 2022 74% · 2023 87% · 2024 83% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (13% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
Davon Russell
President and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $1.5M → $1.8M.
16 of 67 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'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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 HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 43% · 2019 25% · 2020 29% · 2021 47% · 2022 34% · 2023 27% — 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
46% of WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
85% of WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 449 housing & shelter nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 449 housing & shelter nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$8.6M
- National Endowment for the Arts$63k
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 HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 7 related entities
- Whedco Bronx Commons LLC · disregarded
- Urban Horizons II Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- Urban Horizons Housing Development Fund Corporation · exempt
- Urban Horizons II LP · partnership
- Bronx Commons Retail LLC · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,034,616 to it, the largest being THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION ($2,500,000). 39 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $18,034,616 in grants to WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION, 39 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION?
- THE ANDREW W MELLON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S HOUSING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION 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 67 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