Together Women Rise
Greenville, SC · EIN 20-0031928. Reported 100 grants totalling $4,758,481 to 85 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Together Women Rise, the IRS classifies it as a private grantmaking foundation (NTEE T20).
- How spread out its giving is. 85 distinct organizations, with 7% 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.
- How much its list changes. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $49,945. Half of what it reported fell between $34,991 and $50,000; the smallest was $10,000 and the largest $110,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Equimundo Center for Masculinities and Social Justice | Washington, DC | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Rural Development Institute | Seattle, WA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Equality Now Inc | New York, NY | $275,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| International Center for Research on Women | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shared Interest Inc | New York, NY | $149,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Speak Up for the Poor | Pasadena, CA | $76,189 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asante Africa Foundation Inc | Livermore, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Flying Kites Inc | Boston, MA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| International Action Network for Gender Equity and Law | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Kakenyas Dream | Arlington, VA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Kula Project Inc | Costa Mesa, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| One Heart Worldwide | Hoover, AL | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Refushe Inc | Chicago, IL | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Save the Rain Inc | Mount Shasta, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Amplify Girls | Hixson, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center for Victims of Torture | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Children of Vietnam | Greensboro, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| EDUCATE2ENVISION International | San Leandro, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| For the Good | Glenwood Springs, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Girl Rising | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Impact Network | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Kupona Foundation | Saratoga Spgs, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Limitless Horizons Ixil Inc | Roslindale, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lotus Outreach | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maia | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Maya Midwifery International Inc | Somerville, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mindleaps | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| No Means No Worldwide | Mclean, VA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Project Soar Marrakech | Washington, DC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Project Zawadi Inc | Saint Paul, MN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shes the First Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International | Atlanta, GA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Fistula Foundation | San Jose, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Pangea Network | The Woodlands, TX | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Too Young to Wed | Peekskill, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Upaya Social Ventures | Seattle, WA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Video Volunteers | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Willow International | Orange, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Women Win Foundation Inc | Belleair Blf, FL | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Wuqu Kawoq Sa | Bethel, VT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yamba Malawi Inc | New York, NY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Street Child US | Sacramento, CA | $49,891 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Self Help International | Waverly, IA | $49,537 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Common Threads Project | New York, NY | $49,368 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Her Future Coalition Inc | St Augustine, FL | $49,198 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Gaia Vaccine Foundation | Providence, RI | $48,522 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asia Initiatives | New York, NY | $48,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Last MILE4D | Washington, DC | $48,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colors of Connection Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $47,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Global Fund for Widows Inc | New York, NY | $45,615 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Arogya | Spring House, PA | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Myriad USA Inc | New York, NY | $45,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Mooncatcher Project Inc | Schenectady, NY | $43,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soccer Without Borders | Baltimore, MD | $41,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Village Health Partnership | Denver, CO | $40,800 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Organization for Youth Empowerment | Washington, DC | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sacred Valley Health | Anchorage, AK | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Second Mile Haiti | Oro Valley, AZ | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tomorrows Women | Santa Fe, NM | $38,525 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charities Aid Foundation America | Alexandria, VA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Georges Malaika Foundationincorporated | New York, NY | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Komera Inc | Milton, MA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Noora Health | San Francisco, CA | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Terrewode Womens Fund | Bend, OR | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Barka Foundation Inc | Wyoming, PA | $34,991 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Advocacy Project | Washington, DC | $31,960 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project Inc | Milton, VT | $31,615 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Global Pearls LLC | Albuquerque, NM | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Onevillage Partners | Minneapolis, MN | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Safe Passage | Portland, ME | $25,020 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| African People & Wildlife Fund Inc | Far Hills, NJ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bond Street Theatre Coalition Ltd | New York City, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Care 2 Communities Inc | Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Catalyst Foundation | Portland, OR | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Collateral Repair Project | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Cloud Forest Conservation | Long Lake, MN | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gardens for Health International | Duxbury, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grandmother Project Inc | Hideaway, TX | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Growth Through Learning Inc | Cambridge, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healthright International Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Integrate Health Inc | Raleigh, NC | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ripple Africa Inc | Tucson, AZ | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sunsar Maya Inc | San Francisco, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Womens Microfinance Initiative Corporation | Bethesda, MD | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| American Himalayan Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
10 of 85 (12%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 82 of 85 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 26 | $774,775 | $25,010 |
| 2022 | 17 | $941,244 | $49,537 |
| 2023 | 17 | $990,325 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 18 | $998,522 | $50,000 |
| 2025 | 22 | $1,053,615 | $50,000 |
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
25% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
21 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 42 grants totalling $68,291 to Together Women Rise. That is 52% of the 40 funders we can see giving to it. Those 21 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a grantmaking organization.
12 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Journey Charitable Foundation | Texas | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tom & Donna Neshek Family | Wisconsin | $20,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Perlmeter Family Foundation | Florida | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $4,851 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Lefkovitz Foundation | Wisconsin | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Bindon Foundation | Delaware | $2,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wave Foundation | Colorado | $2,423 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Shell USA Company Foundation | Texas | $1,100 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Pfizer Foundation Inc | New York | $1,100 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Maier Family Foundation | California | $1,000 | 2 | 1 | 2023 |
The 10 largest by reported dollars, of 21.
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $49,945 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
- 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 Together Women Rise's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 22 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 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: Po Box 25633, Greenville, SC, 29616.
EIN 20-0031928 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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