GrantmakersDistrict of Columbia

National Women's Health Network

Washington, DC · EIN 52-1081261. Reported 34 grants totalling $717,000 to 29 organizations across tax years 2021-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

29organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$717,000granted, 2021-2023
25%of grantees funded again the next year
14%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For National Women's Health Network, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E99Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 29 distinct organizations, with 14% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 25% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $25,500; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
9 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
15 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
7 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
2 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Honeybee HealthCulver City, CA$100,000112022
Kentucky Health Justice Network IncLouisville, KY$72,500112022
Share EquitySaratoga, CA$66,800322023
Shout Your AbortionSeattle, WA$50,000112022
Movement LabsChicago, IL$46,000112023
Red State AccessNew York, NY$45,500322023
Cambridge Reproductive Health ConsultantsSomerville, MA$40,000222023
Tides CenterSeattle, WA$40,000112022
Online Abortion Resources SquadNew York, NY$39,200112023
Kentucky Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice IncLouisville, KY$25,500112023
Social Good Fund IncRichmond, CA$23,000112023
Babes Fest IncAustin, TX$17,500112023
Abortion Liberation Fund of PaPhiladelphia, PA$16,000112022
Changing Woman InitiativeAlbuquerque, NM$14,000112023
New Voices Pittsburgh IncPittsburgh, PA$14,000112023
Abortion Action MissouriSaint Louis, MO$10,000112022
Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts IncSouthampton, MA$10,000112023
Nightingale MedicalNew Paltz, NY$10,000112022
University of Washington FoundationSeattle, WA$10,000112022
Womens Reproductive Rights Assistance Project WrrapSanta Monica, CA$10,000112022
Harm Reduction OhioColumbus, OH$8,000112023
Oshun Family CenterPhiladelphia, PA$7,000112023
Pvblic Foundation IncNew York, NY$7,000112021
Teen Health MississippiJackson, MS$7,000112023
The Sexed LLCLos Angeles, CA$6,000112021
Emergency Medical Assistance IncPalm Bch Gdns, FL$5,500112023
National Council of Jewish Women IncorporatedLouisville, KY$5,500112023
National Organization for Women IncMarietta, GA$5,500112023
Tba Fund IncSafety Harbor, FL$5,500112023

3 of 29 (10%) received money in more than one year over the 3 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 17 of 29 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Health Care
5 orgs
Human Services
3 orgs
Civil Rights
3 orgs
Education
2 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Social Science
1 org
Community Improvement
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20212$13,000$6,500
202213$358,500$10,000
202319$345,500$14,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

29% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$206K
Kentucky
$104K
New York
$102K
Washington
$100K
Massachusetts
$50K
Illinois
$46K
Pennsylvania
$37K
Texas
$18K

Down to the city

Louisville, KY
$104K
Culver City, CA
$100K
Seattle, WA
$100K
New York, NY
$92K
Saratoga, CA
$67K
Chicago, IL
$46K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund11 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc8 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsHopewell Fund7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from National Women's Health Network's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 3 returns (tax years 2021-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 10 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 9 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: 1413 K Street Nw 4TH Floor, Washington, DC, 20005.

EIN 52-1081261 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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