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Women's Resource Center

Women's Resource Center (Michigan) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,513,975 to it, the largest being HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ($643,342). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$619k
Funders on record
45
Grants received
$4.5M
Net assets
$2.6M
23/45 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 82%
01What it does

What Women's Resource Center does

Mission

Equipping women to acheive purpose, fulfillment, and financial stability through meaningful employment

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. WRCs new beginning program began in 2012 and is a jail-based trauma informed program that assists female felony offenders in becoming self sufficient after incarceration by providing mentoring and workforce services. This program assisted 352 women this year.

    $465,438 spentof which $25,929 as grants$13,580 earned by the program
    57% of program spending
  2. WRCs empower program provides individualized career and life skill development to women facing significant barriers to employment. The program assisted 143 women this year.

    $197,377 spentof which $11,020 as grants
    24% of program spending
  3. The business boutique provides participants the opportunity to shop the business boutique for free for interview-appropriate clothing and accessories. Individuals and businesses donate gently worn, quality professional clothing and accessories to support this program. Volunteers serve as personal shoppers to help the participants find the right clothing for their situation. Volunteers also sort through donations and prepare clothing to be placed in the boutique.

    $69,816 spentof which $3,889 as grants
    9% of program spending
  4. Volunteer and Covid

    $87,177 spentof which $15,142 as grants$5,218 earned by the program
    11% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $819,808.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($623k) Expenses 100 ($654k) Net assets 100 ($231k)2018 Revenue 97 ($607k) Expenses 99 ($648k) Net assets 80 ($185k)2019 Revenue 94 ($584k) Expenses 92 ($600k) Net assets 88 ($204k)2020 Revenue 137 ($854k) Expenses 101 ($660k) Net assets 177 ($410k)2021 Revenue 202 ($1.3M) Expenses 122 ($796k) Net assets 386 ($893k)2022 Revenue 517 ($3.2M) Expenses 140 ($915k) Net assets 1374 ($3.2M)2023 Revenue 155 ($967k) Expenses 157 ($1.0M) Net assets 1349 ($3.1M)2024 Revenue 99 ($619k) Expenses 175 ($1.1M) Net assets 1121 ($2.6M)
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Revenue (99)Expenses (175)Net assets (1121)

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 $1.0M to $3.8M (+266%).

$361k
$304k
$292k
$539k
$1.0M
$3.8M
$3.7M
$3.1M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 27% · 2018 13% · 2019 13% · 2020 17% · 2021 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$31k
’17
−$41k
’18
−$15k
’19
$194k
’20
$460k
’21
$2.3M
’22
−$57k
’23
−$529k
’24
2.4
months of
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

Trudy Ender

CEO

Board chair

Roya Bruce

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed1619171514131615
Joined·+4+1+1+3+3+4+1
No longer listed·1334412
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 22 funders, grant income rose $39k → $797k.

13 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 Resource Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 Resource Center has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left

46% 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 Resource Center.

14%
largest funder
36%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 44% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 22% · 2022 16% · 2023 34% — 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

61% of Women's Resource Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

94% of Women's Resource Center's grant income comes from Michigan funders.

MN
MI
NY
IN
OH
NC
SC
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’21
’22
’23
Michigan out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding Women's Resource Center receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $95k on record.

Federal$95k
grants $95kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Labor$95k

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 Resource Center

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 Michigan

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

71% of spending goes to programs.

Program 71%Management 10%Fundraising 18%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

87%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MI

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Questions and answers

Who funds Women's Resource Center?
Women's Resource Center (Michigan) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,513,975 to it, the largest being HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY ($643,342). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Women's Resource Center have?
IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,513,975 in grants to Women's Resource Center, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Women's Resource Center?
HEART OF WEST MICHIGAN UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $643,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Women's Resource Center find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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