Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WOMENS WAY
WOMENS WAY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,120,621 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL B AND FLORENCE E GREEN FOUNDATION ($601,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Womens Way does
Mission
Formed in the late-70's, WOMEN'S WAY achieves gender equity by building collective power to disrupt oppressive systems and strengthen alternative models centered in love, dignity, and liberation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
GRANTMAKING PROGRAMS In FY25, we distributed a total of $634,270 to 36 organizations through four grantmaking programs described below. IMMEDIATE RESPONSE ACTION FUND (IRAF) IRAF addresses urgent and unanticipated needs of organizations or programs that primarily serve women, girls, and the gender expansive community. From receiving a completed application to communicating a decision -the IRAF grant review process is completed in 10 business days. In FY25, 15 grant totaling over $149,270 were given out, impacting over 32,500 individuals. RAPID RESPONSE GENERAL OPERATING FUND The Rapid Response General Operating Fund was created to fund organizations serving communities disproportionately impacted by the current socio-political climate: immigrant and refugees, LGBTQIA+, people seeking reproductive healthcare and/or organizations anticipating a significant decrease in funding. From receiving a completed application, to communicating a decision, the grant review process was completed in 10 business days. In FY25, 16 grants totaling $160,000 were given out, impacting over 90,875 individuals. GENDER ECONOMIC EQUITY FUND The first cohort of the Gender Economic Equity Fund was launched…
$722,391 spentof which $646,520 as grants47% of program spendingPUBLIC EDUCATION: GENDER EQUITY DESIGNER PROGRAM In 2025, we launched the Gender Equity Designer Program (GEEP) whose purpose is to advance the efforts, knowledge, and impact of organizations, coalitions, and grassroots groups from the care sector who are working to strengthen alternative care models that are equitable, inclusive, and contribute to long-term social transformation. GEEP includes three components: multi-year general operating support, a wellness fund, and the Gender Equity Designer Program which is a 6-month learning collaborative that empowers practitioners to design and evaluate effective equity strategies that center individuals and communities historically impacted by gender and racial inequities by adopting an equity mindset. Participants learn best practices, powerful techniques, key performance indicators and meaningful milestones for designing equitable organizations, communities, and systems. The first cohort includes four nonprofit organizations in the care sector. CLOSING THE GENDER WEALTH GAP EDUCATION SERIES In 2025, we hosted four virtual forums exploring the steps needed to build a more inclusive economy and the alternative models and initiatives that…
$647,952 spentof which $5,722 as grants42% of program spendingRESEARCH In 2025, we finalized the Gender Wealth Framework (GWF), a guide that offers a holistic, community-centered approach to understanding and advancing wealth by: - Challenging the deeply embedded narratives that perpetuate harmful and inadequate responses to wealth inequity. - Recognizing collectivism, interdependence, and self-determination as central to our understanding of wealth. - Encouraging systemic reflection, helping users assess how policies, programs, and institutions align (or misalign) with equity goals. - Prioritizing participant-defined success over rigid, top-down metrics. Practitioners can use the Framework to design and evaluate programs that advance gender equity. Funders can use the Framework to inform strategic investments and shift how they define and measure success. Policymakers can use the Framework to design equitable policies that move beyond short-term fixes and toward systemic solutions to close the gender wealth gap. A GWF playbook has been created to help different stakeholders operationalize the Framework to advance gender equity into their organizations. The playbook is being tested with the four GEEP grantees who are currently designing…
$161,665 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,532,008.
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 2024 to 2025, from $3.6M to $4.6M (+30%).
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: 2021 5% · 2022 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of WOMENS WAY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Myra Brown
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $149k → $492k.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 WAY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
WOMENS WAY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
60% 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 WAY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 27% · 2019 21% · 2020 18% · 2021 29% · 2022 30% · 2023 20% — 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
52% of WOMENS WAY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
71% of WOMENS WAY's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 WAY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMENS WAY
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
71%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMENS WAY: 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 WAY?
- WOMENS WAY (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,120,621 to it, the largest being THE DANIEL B AND FLORENCE E GREEN FOUNDATION ($601,000). 28 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMENS WAY have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $4,120,621 in grants to WOMENS WAY, 28 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMENS WAY?
- THE DANIEL B AND FLORENCE E GREEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $601,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMENS WAY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 52 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