Health
Health is the foundation.
We resource organizations expanding access to care, improving maternal outcomes, and building the community conditions women, girls, and families need to thrive.
Our Approach
Fund the people.
Shift the conditions.
WFS moves trust-based capital, strengthens movement infrastructure, and changes the story of what is possible for women, girls, and gender-expansive people across the South. Our work follows the full lives of Southern women and girls. That means investing across the systems that shape well-being, economic security, voice, and self-determination — not treating any one outcome in isolation.
Wealth
Wealth should stay in community.
Our vision is to help build a stronger, more inclusive South where people and communities have greater opportunities for economic mobility, entrepreneurship, ownership, and long-term financial security.
Power
Power belongs where decisions are made.
We strengthen movement infrastructure, leadership, storytelling, and policy advocacy so the people closest to the issues can shape what comes next.
Grantmaking & Capacity
Trust is part of the investment.
The Women’s Foundation of the South was created to change the philanthropic system that has historically overlooked the South, women, and the leaders who work every day to build community and anchor our democracy. WFS invests in leaders with flexible, multi-year support and the room to make decisions closest to the work for long-term capacity and change.
- Flexible support shaped by community priorities
- Leadership, rest, and organizational resilience
- Research and advocacy that shift public narratives