The Women & Girls Index 2025: Measuring Giving to Women’s and Girls’ Organizations

Abstract

The Women & Girls Index (WGI) from the Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) is the only comprehensive index that measures charitable giving to organizations dedicated to women and girls in the United States, including the amount of philanthropic support they receive from individuals, foundations, and corporations. The 2025 WGI adds data from both 2022 and 2023 across 57,165 charitable organizations. Notably, for the first time since the creation of the WGI in 2019, giving to women’s and girls’ organizations surpassed 2% of overall charitable giving—peaking at 2.18% in 2022 before settling back to 2.04% in 2023. The report also notes extraordinary turbulence and activity across women’s and girls’ issues during 2022 and 2023, and most of the increase in giving was fueled by donations to reproductive health organizations in 2022. At the same time, growth was weaker when adjusting for inflation, reflecting the volatility and uncertainty of long-term funding.