Texas · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,415,301 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC ($1,907,923). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $4.4M
- Net assets
- $4.4M
What Women's Shelter of South Texas does
Mission
The mission of the purple door is to empower the community and those affected by domestic violence and sexual assault to transition to a safe and healthy environment.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Family violence program services are provided to adult and child victims of domestic violence within a twelve-county region of south texas including aransas, bee, brooks, duval, jim wells, kenedy, kleberg, live oak, mcmullen, nueces, refugio, and san patricio counties. In 2025, the Women's Shelter of South Texas dba the purple door provided free, comprehensive, supportive service to 2,107 clients. The agency served 1,140 adults and 667 children in 2025. Of those served, 74% were survivors of domestic violence. The agency provided shelter to 684 adults and children in 2025. Services were provided 24-hours per day, 365 days per year and included: safe shelter, advocacy, safety planning, individual and group counseling, crisis hotline, sexual assault services, youth-focused services, legal advocacy, and rural outreach services. Prevention and education services were also provided to address the often-multi-generational cycle of violence with a goal of ending the violence before it ever begins. The agency has continued to utilize technology to safely provide services to clients in addition to providing in-person services. In 2025, the Women's Shelter of South Texas dba the purple door…
$2,695,959 spent50% of program spendingSexual assault program services are available to female and male victims of sexual assault and their families within a twelve-county region of south texas including aransas, bee, brooks, duval, jim wells, kenedy, kleberg, live oak, mcmullen, nueces, refugio, and san patricio counties. Of the 2,107 clients served by the Women's Shelter of South Texas dba the purple door, 26% were victims of sexual assault. Services were provided 24-hours per day, 365 days per year and included: safe shelter, advocacy, safety planning, individual and group counseling, crisis hotline, sexual assault services, youth-directed services, legal advocacy, and rural outreach services. Prevention and education services were also provided to address ending sexual violence before it starts. The sexual assault program provides free, comprehensive, supportive intervention services to victims while pivoting towards the engagement of each community served through intensive prevention and education strategies to stop the violence before it even occurs. Agency services address incidents of sexual violence, sexual violence that occurs as part of domestic violence, and offender accountability. The sexual assault…
$641,380 spent12% of program spendingThe purple door resale shop opened in july 2023 to engage the community in a unique way. Donated items, including clothing, small furniture, and household goods, are accepted at the back of the store. These items are carefully sorted by a specialized team and sold at low prices. Clients of the purple door are given gift cards that allow them to shop freely, providing a discreet shopping experience. All proceeds from the shop go toward funding the agency's free, comprehensive services for clients across the purple door's twelve-country service area. Additionally, the shop holds specific donation items for shelter use, ensuring the shelter's location remains confidential.
$2,059,814 spent$1,285,627 earned by the program38% of program spendingOther programs
$30,340 spent$4,673 earned by the program1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,427,493.
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.
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 $3.4M to $4.5M (+31%).
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 60% · 2018 61% · 2019 48% · 2020 62% · 2021 65% · 2022 73% · 2023 48% · 2024 41% · 2025 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Frances Wilson
CEO and president
Board chair
Sharon Sedwick
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $514k → $617k.
8 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS’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 SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 48% · 2018 46% · 2019 51% · 2020 41% · 2021 40% · 2022 42% · 2023 33% — 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
55% of WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
99% of WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $767k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Organizations like WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS?
- WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,415,301 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC ($1,907,923). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $4,415,301 in grants to WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS?
- UNITED WAY OF THE COASTAL BEND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,907,923 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S SHELTER OF SOUTH TEXAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing