GrantmakersPennsylvania

Women for a Healthy Environment

Pittsburgh, PA · EIN 47-2651553. Reported 41 grants totalling $417,061 to 33 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

33organizations funded
$9,612median reported grant
$417,061granted, 2020-2023
18%of grantees funded again the next year
6%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 Women for a Healthy Environment, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C60) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 6% 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. 18% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. 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 $9,612. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $11,822; the smallest was $5,330 and the largest $20,036. 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
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
19 grants

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
Peace Love and LearningPittsburgh, PA$23,334222023
1ST Years DaycarePittsburgh, PA$20,036112022
North Hills School DistrictPittsburgh, PA$19,432222023
Alliance for Infants and ToddlersPittsburgh, PA$18,750222021
Clean Water FundWashington, DC$18,750222021
Grounded StrategiesPittsburgh, PA$18,750222021
Pennenvironment Research and Policy CenterPhiladelphia, PA$18,750222021
Pittsburgh UnitedPittsburgh, PA$18,750222021
Mooks ChildcareMunhall, PA$17,809112023
Ryan's Room ChildcarePittsburgh, PA$17,450112023
Hopewell Area School DistrictAliquippa, PA$16,998112020
Deakings Daycare 2Pittsburgh, PA$16,037212020
Pamela Butler's BabiesPittsburgh, PA$14,178112022
Norwin Pennsylvania School Service Personnel AssocWestmoreland City, PA$14,142112021
Fifth Avenue Family DaycarePittsburgh, PA$12,256112022
Doris Keith-Clark Early Education CenterPittsburgh, PA$11,966112023
Greensburg Salem Education FoundationGreensburg, PA$11,860112023
Steel Valley School DistrictMunhall, PA$11,822112023
Rebuilding Together PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$11,250112020
Miss Sheree's Family Home DaycarePittsburgh, PA$10,492112022
Ingomar Child Enrichment CenterPittsburgh, PA$10,395112020
Gwenny Pooh's DaycarePittsburgh, PA$9,040112020
Little Hearts Learning CenterPittsburgh, PA$8,433112021
Union Christian AcademyMckees Rocks, PA$7,980112022
Blessed AssuranceRankin, PA$7,860112022
Oil City School DistrictOil City, PA$7,792112021
New Brighton School DistrictNew Brighton, PA$6,943112020
South Allegheny School DistrictMckeesport, PA$6,830112022
Charmaine Dunbar Family ChildcarePittsburgh, PA$6,698112022
Bright and Early LearningPittsburgh, PA$5,873112021
Duquesne City School DistrictDuquesne, PA$5,600112022
Growing GardenTarentum, PA$5,475112021
Taylors TotsPittsburgh, PA$5,330112020

7 of 33 (21%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 6 of 33 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.

Environment
3 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Education
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202013$132,243$11,250
202110$79,215$7,500
202211$116,374$9,820
20237$89,229$11,860

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

96% of its giving went to organizations in Pennsylvania. 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.

Pennsylvania
$398K
District of Columbia
$19K

Down to the city

Pittsburgh, PA
$258K
Munhall, PA
$30K
Washington, DC
$19K
Philadelphia, PA
$19K
Aliquippa, PA
$17K
Westmoreland City, PA
$14K

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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.

The Pittsburgh Foundation9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsThe Heinz Endowments4 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund4 shared recipientsThe Grable Foundation4 shared recipientsUnited States Energy Foundation3 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 $9,612 -- 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 Pennsylvania.
  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 Women for a Healthy Environment's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 7 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: 7371 Thomas Blvd, Pittsburgh, PA, 15208.

EIN 47-2651553 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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