Giving to women's and girls' organizations passed $12 billion in 2024, Indiana University index finds
The Women & Girls Index 2026 counts 58,851 charities that received $12.1 billion, a record in dollars and more than 2% of all U.S. charitable giving for the third year in a row. Support for reproductive health kept falling from its 2022 peak.
Indianapolis. Charitable organizations dedicated to women and girls received a record $12.1 billion in 2024, the first time their support has passed $12 billion, according to the Women & Girls Index 2026, released Oct. 8 by the Women's Philanthropy Institute at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
The index adds 2024 figures for 58,851 organizations, drawn from IRS data, the most recent year for which finalized filings are available. Their share of all charitable giving in the United States stayed above 2% for the third year in a row. The institute calls the index the only systematically generated, comprehensive measure of giving to women's and girls' organizations in the country.
After the 2022 spike
The report places 2024 against a decade of change. Support rose in nominal dollars from 2023 and, the institute says, grew faster than inflation, reversing some of the decline after 2022. Adjusted for inflation, giving was still below its 2022 high.
Giving to reproductive health and family planning organizations fell again from its historic 2022 peak but remained above its 2021 level. Most of the index's mission areas received more in 2024, with human services and women's health gaining the most ground, so support was slightly less concentrated among the largest categories.
What the authors draw from it
For fundraisers and nonprofit leaders, the institute writes, the reproductive health figures show how giving can climb sharply around major events and then recede, and the lesson is to turn periods of heightened attention into lasting support. It suggests organizations use the index to set their own fundraising trends in a broader context.
For funders, the authors note that even at more than 2%, the share remains small next to the scale of the field, and they point to multiyear and unrestricted grants as a way to help organizations plan.
The index is part of the school's Equitable Giving Lab, which is funded by Google's philanthropic arm and studies giving to under-resourced groups. Jacqueline Ackerman directs the Women's Philanthropy Institute. The trade site NonProfit PRO reprinted the release on Oct. 30.
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