Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION
WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,713 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($738,146). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Women's Transportation Seminar Foundation does
Mission
Advancing women in transportation through scholarships, research, and education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Scholarships: the wts foundation awards scholarships to women who are pursuing careers in transportation through undergraduate and graduate programs across the country and internationally. The scholarships are competitive and based on the applicant's specific transportation goals, academic record, and transportation-related activities or career achievements.
$841,205 spentof which $831,205 as grants86% of program spendingConference & education: wts foundation offers its flagship transportation you conference--an opportunity for select transportation you students from across the country and their mentors to gather for once-in-a-lifetime tours, meet-ups with white house administrators, and educational breakout sessions. Every annual transportation you dc summit offers attendees the chance to meet college representatives and senior administration officials, including the secretary of transportation, and explore the white house or us capitol, local airports, the dc metro, and other transportation hubs. This dynamic program provides experience with engineering challenges, professional development programs, and networking events. Participants learn about college opportunities, core ...continued on schedule ocontinued from page 2... Transportation development components including accessibility and livable communities, and career planning. In addition to the transportation you conference, wts foundation holds an annual gala to promote the visibility of women in transportation and to honor student scholarship recipients from the past year.
$133,434 spentof which $60,194 as grants14% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $974,639.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $2.3M (+13%).
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: 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Wendy Scott
Interim CEO
Board chair
Yvonne Lopez-Diaz
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $89k → $165k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 70% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $109k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Women's Transportation Seminar). These are real filings, and they are not money WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION’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 TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 54% · 2019 58% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 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
17% of WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
70% of WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $313k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $738k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 11,752 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,752 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Women's Transportation Seminar · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION?
- WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,051,713 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($738,146). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 70% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,051,713 in grants to WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $738,146 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S TRANSPORTATION SEMINAR FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 9 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