Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$11,550,455

Total expenses

$6,176,461

Contributions and grants received

$11,426,321

Grants paid

$2,388,067

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$121,751

Other revenue

$2,383

Total assets, end of year

$35,113,777

Total liabilities, end of year

$885,584

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$34,228,193

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$4,982,388

Management and general expenses

$1,017,469

Fundraising expenses

$176,604

Program service expenses (Part III)

$4,982,388

Program services were 80.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $3,355,951 · Grants $1,862,828

• Research, Education, and Public PolicyStatus of Women and Girls in MinnesotaIn 2009, the Foundation launched the Status of Women & Girls in Minnesota (Status) research project in partnership with the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School's Center on Gender, Women, and Public Policy. Data specific to Minnesota women and girls has been gathered, analyzed, and published in economics, safety, health, and leadership. The Status research and community input expands the available data on women and girls, provides ongoing trend analysis, informs the Foundation's annual grantmaking and policy agenda, identifies new areas where research is needed, and raises public awareness about the needs of women and girls in Minnesota. Every two years, the Foundation releases the Status of Women and Girls in Minnesota, the most comprehensive data in the state on women, girls, and gender-expansive people as well as recommendations for policy solutions that could advance systemic change. Data collection has begun for the next report, released in early 2024.WFM leverages listening, research, and convening to inform the field, cross-sector engagement, policy advocacy, and investments. In addition to producing quantitative reports, we invest in listening to grantee-partners, advocates, and community leaders to better understand how disparities and solutions are experienced in distinct communities around the state, and to inform our own work and role in philanthropy. Through virtual listening sessions in the last fiscal year, WFM we met with Safety, girlsBEST, and YWI MN partners, disability and rural advocates, elders, male advocates, and alumni of WFM programs to continue building and sharing power and expanding our transparency about our processes. A summary of this listening series was captured in a graphic harvest that informs not only grantmaking processes, but also our emerging emphasis on using narrative change to drive systems change. Based on this convening series, we identified key narrative priorities in our impact areas of safety, reproductive justice and healing, and democratizing philanthropy that align with the social landscape and the concerns of our core stakeholders.Public PolicyAs a systems-change community foundation, WFM invests in policies and narratives that transform our state with gender and racial justice. In alignment with our strategic plan, WFM has increased investments in advocacy and policy as a lever for changing inequitable systems. We are committed to policies that remove barriers and increase access for women, girls, and gender-expansive people across Minnesota, by addressing racism, gender-based violence, and gaps in leadership and representation. Building on the Foundation's historical legislative work, WFM's legislative agenda advanced public policy in partnership with young women, gender-expansive people, and grantee-partner organizations. In the last fiscal year, WFM added a new role to reflect our increased emphasis on driving effective advocacy and policy change. Led by the vice president for strategic initiatives, we advanced a robust policy agenda at the Capitol, working with a hired lobbyist to carry a legislative agenda, mobilize the public, and increase the visibility and priorities of women, girls, gender-expansive people. WFM leaders, board, and Cabinet members testified on behalf of the WFM policy agenda for issues central to economic justice, safety, and reproductive justice, including Paid Family & Medical Leave, reproductive rights, and increased funding for Safe Harbor, the Office of Missing & Murdered Black Women & Girls, and the Office of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Relatives. The Governor-appointed Young Women's Cabinet created a comprehensive policy agenda and elected policy leaders to advance bills affecting their lives. To prepare for their advocacy, young women received rigorous policy training using a curriculum that centers people of color to engage in policy for systems change. Cabinet members were active in testifying, writing letters of support, and increasing awareness of their policy agenda issues.State & National PartnershipsWFM engages in collaborative funding and partnerships within Minnesota's foundation community dedicated to social change grantmaking. We are a member of several funder collaboratives, including the National Philanthropic Collaborative of Young Women's Initiatives, Women's Funding Network, Minnesota Council of Foundations, Reproductive Health Alliance, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, and Mission Investors Exchange.

  Expenses $450,041

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $1,176,396 · Grants $525,239

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• Dunwoody College of Technology

  $150,000

  Program Support

• Minnesota North College

  $150,000

  Program Support

• The Center for Victims of Torture

  $97,589

  Program Support and General Operating

• YWCA St Paul

  $80,000

  Program Support and General Operating

• Minnesota Public Radio

  $69,116

  Program Support

• Outfront Minnesota Community Services

  $47,500

  Program Support and General Operating

• Planned Parenthood North Central States

  $43,500

  Program Support and General Operating

• First Witness Child Advocacy Center

  $42,500

  General Operating Support

• YWCA of Minneapolis

  $39,500

  Program Support and General Operating

• Division of Indian Work

  $37,000

  General Operating Support

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2022

Filed

25 September 2023

IRS schema version

2022v5.0

Source object

202322709349301247

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