Louisiana · Nonprofit
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH (Louisiana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,251,963 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,150,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $7.3M
- Net assets
- $675k
What Womens Foundation of the South does
Mission
The mission of wfs is to invest in the health, wealth, and power of women, girls, and gender expansive people in the u.s. South. We center the lives of those most impacted by injustice, recognizing their unrealized promise and vital role in community transformation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Wfs envisions a flourishing south where women, girls, and gender expansive people of color are healthy, safe, and well-resourced to determine their own destinies and ensure that they and their families thrive. Wfs aims to be a permanent, endowed institution that serves as a gateway for donors, foundations, corporations, and individual investors to maximize the social impact of their investments in women and girls of color in the south. We value the brilliance of mother wit, equity justice, sisterhood, power-sharing, ingenuity, self-determination, and community wisdom.in 2023, wfs expanded our team and raised money toward reaching its full 13-state focus area across the southern u.s. Rooted in louisiana, wfs expanded its services in 2023 to include organizations led by women of color in the states of georgia and texas, expanding our footprint to a total of four states. Since launching the woc@rest program, 91 nonprofit leaders have participated in four cohorts, and wfs has invested over $1m in grants and programmatic investment. Our radical approach to philanthropy is exemplified in our award-winning program, woc@rest. This program, curated in partnership with junebug productions,…
$1,010,967 spentof which $352,455 as grants$2,000 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,010,967.
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.
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 $1.5M to $762k (−51%).
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.
100% of WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Carmen Randolph
Founding president & CEO
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $2.0M.
9 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH’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 FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 30% · 2022 51% · 2023 28% — 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.
Where its funders are
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Louisiana, across 14 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $991k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH's funding base is broadening — from 13 funders to 15 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
39% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH?
- WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH (Louisiana) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,251,963 to it, the largest being WK Kellogg Foundation ($2,150,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $7,251,963 in grants to WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH?
- WK Kellogg Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $2,150,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMENS FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 30 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