Connecticut · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC
WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,482,731 to it, the largest being WINDMILL FOUNDATION INC ($605,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $369k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $470k
What Women's Mentoring Network Inc does
Mission
The mission of women's mentoring network is to empower individuals in underserved communities offering compassionate, long-term mentoring, skills training, and employment support that lead to lasting financial stability for themselves and their families.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Women's mentoring network provides workforce development and family support services aligned with our mission to promote lasting financial stability in underserved communities. All services are offered free of charge. Bilingual services are also offered. Through individualized, long-term mentoring, clients build confidence, accountability, and career plans. Our financial wellness and digital literacy training programs strengthen workplace readiness and retention. Industry-recognized certificate and technology training programs connect clients to higher-wage career pathways. Tutoring and first-generation college support prepare youth for postsecondary success. These integrated services help clients secure employment, increase earnings, and build sustainable economic stability for their families.
$432,831 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $432,831.
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 2021 to 2022, from $242k to $412k (+70%).
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: 2020 10% · 2021 8% · 2022 7% · 2023 3% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (62% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Lana Gifas
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose $39k → $239k.
9 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 MENTORING NETWORK INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 MENTORING NETWORK INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 64%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
27% 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 MENTORING NETWORK INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 38% · 2019 66% · 2020 59% · 2021 34% · 2022 47% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
64% of WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
72% of WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $290k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 MENTORING NETWORK INC is better cushioned than half of the 7,668 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,668 community improvement nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$10k
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 MENTORING NETWORK 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
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 MENTORING NETWORK INC: 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 MENTORING NETWORK INC?
- WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,482,731 to it, the largest being WINDMILL FOUNDATION INC ($605,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $1,482,731 in grants to WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC?
- WINDMILL FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $605,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 31 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