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WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS

WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,249 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($232,417). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$487k
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$734k
Net assets
$675k
13/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 32%
01What it does

What Womens Storybook Project of Texas does

Mission

The Women's Storybook Project connects and strengthens the bond between children and their incarcerated mothers through the power of literature. By fostering meaningful connections, the program aims to reduce the rate of re-incarceration amount mothers, lower the likelihood of children following a path to incarceration, support literacy and promote positive parenting and improve communities through the healing power of story and connection. Through each book sent and each story shared, we help rewrite futures - one family at a time.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. In a heartfelt effort to maintain bonds between incarcerated mothers and their children, the Women's Storybook Project reached across 11 women's prisons in Texas, enabling 625 mothers to record stories and/or write caring notes, 782 children to receive these messages of love, and 6,758 books and/or recordings to be mailed to children across 23 states. This initiative continues to bridge distance with the power of storytelling, nuturing connection and healing one book at a time.

    $426,970 spentof which $134,119 as grants$487,655 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: $426,970.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($332k) Expenses 100 ($267k) Net assets 100 ($353k)2021 Revenue 109 ($362k) Expenses 105 ($281k) Net assets 123 ($434k)2022 Revenue 120 ($397k) Expenses 119 ($318k) Net assets 145 ($513k)2023 Revenue 132 ($440k) Expenses 149 ($397k) Net assets 179 ($633k)2024 Revenue 164 ($546k) Expenses 170 ($454k) Net assets 205 ($725k)2025 Revenue 147 ($487k) Expenses 203 ($540k) Net assets 191 ($675k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (147)Expenses (203)Net assets (191)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 2022 to 2023, from $523k to $665k (+27%).

$356k
$442k
$523k
$665k
$748k
$697k
202020212022202320242025
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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

99% of WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 23,870 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$66k
’20
$81k
’21
$79k
’22
$43k
’23
$92k
’24
−$53k
’25
10
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed81010111413
Joined·+4+3+2+4+2
No longer listed·23113
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $141k.

8 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 46% 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 STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS’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 STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% 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

53% 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 STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS.

32%
largest funder
51%
top three
~7
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 56% · 2019 34% · 2020 45% · 2021 28% · 2022 38% · 2023 29% — 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

43% of WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

80% of WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS's grant income comes from Texas funders.

IL
NY
CT
DE
NC
TX

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Texas out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $338k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS is better cushioned than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve10.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

79% of spending goes to programs.

Program 79%Management 10%Fundraising 11%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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 WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS?
WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $734,249 to it, the largest being DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ($232,417). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $734,249 in grants to WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF TEXAS?
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC is the largest funder on record, with $232,417 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMENS STORYBOOK PROJECT OF 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 28 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