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WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $554,274 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($266,274). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$335k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$554k
Net assets
$90k
3/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 61%
01What it does

What Womens Center for Economic Opportunity does

Mission

Our mission is to elevate & empower under-resourced business owners, leaders and innovators with pathways to the capital customers, contracts and connections needed to become financially secure

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Business Mentoring - Business Acceleration Cohorts - Technical Assistance - Access to Capital -Online Classes & Webinars - Networking -& Visibility Services - Research & Data -Economic Development Consulting serving over 3,000 under-resourced business owners

    $350,000 spentof which $300,000 as grants$35,000 earned by the program
    100% of program spending
  2. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $0 spent
    0% of program spending

The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $350,000.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.

100 = 20212021 Revenue 100 ($202k) Expenses 100 ($98k) Net assets 100 ($106k)2022 Revenue 177 ($357k) Expenses 350 ($343k) Net assets 113 ($120k)2023 Revenue 145 ($292k) Expenses 313 ($307k) Net assets 98 ($104k)2024 Revenue 147 ($297k) Expenses 302 ($296k) Net assets 99 ($105k)2025 Revenue 166 ($335k) Expenses 357 ($350k) Net assets 85 ($90k)
20212022202320242025
Revenue (166)Expenses (357)Net assets (85)Peer revenue range

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 $151k to $131k (−14%).

$151k
$131k
$115k
$115k
$100k
20212022202320242025
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.

2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 17% · 2025 61%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (57% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 24,946 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.

$104k
’21
$13k
’22
−$16k
’23
$959
’24
−$15k
’25
2.7
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

Keena M Smith

CEO

Board chair

Daphne McKinney

Board Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

20212022202320242025
Listed67766
Joined·+1+1+0+1
No longer listed·0111
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $123k → $143k.

Funder
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Jumpstart Incunclassified
$50k
funders
3
2
4
2

1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY’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

WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

70% 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 WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.

48%
largest funder
82%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 51% · 2022 55% · 2023 56% — 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.

Where its funders are

WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY draws 57% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 3 states in all.

NY
OH
PA

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

’21
’22
’23
Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $266k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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

Against its field

WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY has grown faster than half of the 16,849 education nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · below the median
Months of reserve2.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 16,849 education nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

Organizations like WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY

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 Ohio

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

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Questions and answers

Who funds WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY?
WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (Ohio) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $554,274 to it, the largest being COLUMBUS FOUNDATION ($266,274). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $554,274 in grants to WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY?
COLUMBUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $266,274 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMENS CENTER FOR ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 6 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