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WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL

WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,325 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($251,125). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$5.1M
Funders on record
6
Grants received
$381k
Net assets
$2.5M
5/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Womenstrong International does

Mission

Womenstrong International finds, funds, nurtures, and shares women-driven solutions that will transform lives in urban communities. In 2018, we supported four organizations (in kenya, ghana, india and haiti) to implement programs that focused on girls' education, women and girls' health, economic empowerment for women, and solutions to gender-based violence. Collectively, these organizations worked to empower urban women and girls to leave poverty behind.

As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Management and administration of womenstrong's capacity strengthening program and learning lab, including identifying and providing individual and group technical assistance to grantee partners to help strengthen their organizations and staff.

    $760,418 spent
  2. Evaluation and refinement of womenstrong's model of development and programming, and support of grantee's measurement, evaluation, and learning efforts.

    $235,933 spent
  3. Dissemination and promotion of grantee and organizational programs, accomplishments, and stories to external audiences.

    $169,654 spent
  4. Translation and live interpretation services to ensure language justice during multilingual grantee partner activities.

    $29,250 spent

The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.6M) Expenses 100 ($2.6M) Net assets 100 ($698k)2018 Revenue 88 ($2.3M) Expenses 97 ($2.5M) Net assets 71 ($492k)2019 Revenue 62 ($1.6M) Expenses 69 ($1.8M) Net assets 45 ($315k)2020 Revenue 92 ($2.4M) Expenses 108 ($2.8M) Net assets -28 ($-194509)2021 Revenue 151 ($3.9M) Expenses 127 ($3.3M) Net assets 60 ($421k)2022 Revenue 110 ($2.9M) Expenses 102 ($2.6M) Net assets 90 ($629k)2023 Revenue 162 ($4.2M) Expenses 142 ($3.7M) Net assets 164 ($1.1M)2024 Revenue 122 ($3.2M) Expenses 124 ($3.2M) Net assets 156 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 198 ($5.1M) Expenses 144 ($3.7M) Net assets 360 ($2.5M)
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Revenue (198)Expenses (144)Net assets (360)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 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $3.1M (+93%).

$698k
$492k
$315k
$130k
$1.1M
$841k
$1.5M
$1.6M
$3.1M
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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.

2017
2018
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,679 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.

$5k
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−$206k
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’21
’22
’23
’24
’25
8.9
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

Dr Chisina Kapungu

Executive director

Board chair

Dr Susan M Blaustein

Chair and president

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-PF.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.

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Listed11131291010111515
Joined·+4+0+0+1+2+2+4+3
No longer listed·21302103
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $26k → $48k.

5 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 97% 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 WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL’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

WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL.

66%
largest funder
90%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 63% · 2019 67% · 2020 69% · 2021 83% · 2022 71% · 2023 63% — 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

97% of WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $10k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Maryland, across 1 state.

DC

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

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $371k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.

Months of reserve8.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL: 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 WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL?
WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL (Maryland) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $381,325 to it, the largest being JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ($251,125). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 97% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL have?
IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $381,325 in grants to WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL?
JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $251,125 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMENSTRONG INTERNATIONAL find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 2017–2025), 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