About Ms Foundation for Women
The mission of the Ms. Foundation for Women is to build women’s collective power in the U.S. to advance equity and justice for all. We achieve our mission by investing in, and strengthening, the capacity of women-led movements to advance meaningful social, cultural and economic change in the lives of women.
Focus Areas
Economic JusticeSafetyWomen’s HealthBirth JusticeGirls of ColorCapacity BuildingReproductive JusticeMovement Building
Funding Style
unrestricted supportgeneral operating/core supportflexible fundingorganizational sustainability
About Ms Foundation for Women
A defining feature of Ms Foundation for Women Inc is its reliance on general operating support for women-led and gender-expansive movement organizations, with recent grants reaching groups working on reproductive justice, birth justice, safety, economic justice, and organizing. The foundation’s largest recent award in the provided list is $145,000 to Transgender Advocates Knowledgeable Empowering in Birmingham, Alabama, and its giving pattern also includes six-figure support to organizations such as Women With a Vision in New Orleans and Yellowhammer Fund in Tuscaloosa. Across the recent grants, the foundation backs groups advancing social change through direct organizing, cross-movement collaboration, and capacity building rather than one-off project work. Its active program areas show a clear emphasis on women and girls of color, including initiatives focused on the South, the Midwest, and birth justice. The grant record also shows support for arts-and-culture organizing through Asian Women Giving Circle projects in New York City, alongside national funds that support healing, rest, and rapid response within social justice movements. The overall picture is a funder that strengthens organizations already doing movement work and often does so through unrestricted or core support.
What Ms Foundation for Women Funds
In reproductive and birth justice, Ms Foundation for Women Inc funded The Afiya Center in Dallas, Texas with $100,000 for general operating support and also made a $100,000 grant to Southern Birth Justice Network in North Miami Beach, Florida. In safety and health work, it gave $100,000 to Sisterlove Inc in Atlanta, Georgia and $100,000 to The Trans Latin Coalition in Los Angeles, California, both as general operating support. The foundation also supports immigrant and racial justice organizing: Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice in Irondale, Alabama received $100,000, and Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition in Nashville, Tennessee received $100,000. Arts-and-culture organizing appears through Asian Women Giving Circle project grants in New York City, where the focus is on Asian American women or gender-expansive people using arts to advance social change.
How Ms Foundation for Women Gives
Recent grants cluster around core support, with a typical size range of p25 $20,000, median $25,000, and p75 $50,000. The recent-grants list is dominated by general operating support, and several organizations appear more than once across the active programs and grants record, including a birth-justice emphasis that has been active since 2022. The foundation is a regular funder rather than a DAF, funds organizations rather than individuals, and does not make program-related investments. Several active initiatives accept unsolicited proposals, including Asian Women Giving Circle RFP 2026, Birth Justice Initiative, and Activist Collaboration & Care Fund.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$7.6M
Total Assets
$129.3M
Total Revenue
$30.6M
Total Expenses
$18M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $20K and $50K, with a median of $25K.
25th Percentile
$20K
Median
$25K
75th Percentile
$50K
Geographic Reach
National38 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
TERESA YOUNGER
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