EIN 46-1896414

Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

IRS 501(c) type
501(c)(3)
Num. employees
Unknown
Year formed
2015
Most recent tax filings
2022-12-01
NTEE code, primary
Description
Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide is a private foundation based in Cambridge, MA. Its purpose is to demystify finance and broaden the perspective of social change-makers on how to engage with financial systems. In addition, it supports programs and campaigns that work towards ending gender-based violence. The organization offers an upstander award that recognizes male allies who take a stand or intervene to prevent such acts. Direct Action awarded grants to several organizations including the Shadhika Organization last year.
Also known as...
Indias Daughters
Total revenues
$280,000
2022
Total expenses
$159,321
2022
Total assets
$267,122
2022
Num. employees
n/a

Program areas at Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

This dawn worldwide partnership with susan ozawa builds a shareholder proposal at a social media company, e.g., alphabet, youtube, user-identification given sexual exploitation and related problems with predation of vulnerable populations particularly those entailing gender based violence. The activities of the partnership include network engagement through iccr and other networks to collaborate with others working on these issues and to avoid duplicity of filings. Filers and co-filers are identified as well as potential signatories for a letter to the company. Activities include writing letter of engagement to corporate target(s) to launch engagement, collecting signatures from other investors, circulating shareholder letter to relevant congressmembers and collaboration with openmic to develop full shareholder campaign publicity contract.

Grants made by Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

GranteeGrant descriptionAmount
Preventable SurprisesFocused on Systemic Environmental, Social and Governance (Esg) Risks in the Financial Sector.$30,000

Personnel at Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

NameTitleCompensation
Geeta AiyerPresident$0
Asha DixitCPA

Financials for Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

RevenuesFYE 12/2022
Total grants, contributions, etc.$280,000
Investment income and dividends$0
Net rental income$0
Net gain from sale of non-inventory assets$0
Gross sales of inventory$0
Miscellaneous revenues$0
Total revenues$280,000

Form 990s for Direct Action for Women Now World-Wide

Fiscal year endingDate received by IRSFormPDF link
2022-122023-11-15990PFView PDF
2021-122022-11-15990PFView PDF
2020-122021-11-15990PFView PDF
2019-122021-06-15990PFView PDF
2018-122020-02-19990PFView PDF
...and 3 more Form 990s

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Data update history
December 26, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2022
July 3, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2021
June 28, 2023
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2020
October 22, 2021
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2019
August 19, 2021
Posted financials
Added Form 990PF for fiscal year 2018
Nonprofit Types
Grantmaking organizationsPrivate foundationsPrivate non-operating foundationsCharities
Issues
Women and girls
Characteristics
Provides grantsPartially liquidatedTax deductible donationsNo full-time employees
General information
Address
11 Magazine St
Cambridge, MA 02139
Metro area
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH
County
Middlesex County, MA
Website URL
dawnww.org/ 
IRS details
EIN
46-1896414
Fiscal year end
December
Taxreturn type
Form 990-PF
Year formed
2015
Eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions (Pub 78)
Yes
Categorization
NTEE code, primary
T20: Private Foundations
NAICS code, primary
813211: Grantmaking Foundations
Parent/child status
Independent
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