New York · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC
WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,081,236 to it, the largest being Visa Foundation ($21,127,682). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $19M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $48M
- Net assets
- $37M
What Women's World Banking Inc does
Mission
The mission of women's world banking is to expand the economicassets, participation and power of low-income women and theirhouseholds by helping them access financial services, knowledge andmarkets. For more information, see schedule o.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Women's world banking's programs holds the organization's primary programmatic activities. Within women's world banking's programming, the organization has three primary focus areas:(a) develop market driven financial solutions: leveraging rigorous research and intelligence in key markets, the organization identifies barriers to women's financial inclusion. The organization then works with critical partners within priority markets (including policymakers, regulators, and financial service providers) to overcome these barriers by developing policy strategies and commercially-viable solutions to help bring financial services to underbanked women. See schedule o(b) deliver leadership & development programs: the organization delivers a variety of global, regional, and customized training programs for regulatory bodies and financial service providers to enhance individual and team effectiveness in building impactful financial policies and products, create inclusive workplaces, and promote inclusive policy environments.(c) action for influence: the organization takes the insights and best practices from its market driven financial solutions, leadership & development programs, and its…
$13,595,378 spentof which $244,080 as grants$389,930 earned by the program84% of program spendingWwb asset management llc manages private equity investments in growing businesses with innovative solutions that enable women to achieve economic empowerment and resilience. Wwb asset management invests in innovative companies in emerging markets that offer low-income and underserved people access to finance, supply chains and software solutions that enhance productivity.
$2,650,627 spent$2,121,109 earned by the program16% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,246,005.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $38M to $46M (+22%).
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: 2018 25% · 2019 22% · 2020 36% · 2021 24% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
69% of WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (96% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 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
Mary Ellen Iskenderian
President and CEO
Board chair
Janet Truncale
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $2.1M → $9.0M.
15 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 WORLD BANKING INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 WORLD BANKING INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 80% · 2019 69% · 2020 89% · 2021 50% · 2022 72% · 2023 54% — 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
41% of WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.8M 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 WORLD BANKING INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $50
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 WORLD BANKING 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
38%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 8 related entities
- Wwb Asset Management LLC · disregarded
- Wwb Investments LLC · partnership
- Wwb Capital Partners LP · partnership
- Wwb Capital Partners II LP · partnership
- Wwb Investments II LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC?
- WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC (New York) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $48,081,236 to it, the largest being Visa Foundation ($21,127,682). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $48,081,236 in grants to WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC?
- Visa Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $21,127,682 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S WORLD BANKING INC 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 37 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