Texas Women's Healthcare Coalition (TWHC)

What Texas Women's Healthcare Coalition (TWHC) does

Texas Women's Healthcare Coalition (TWHC) is a statewide nonprofit advocacy coalition operating as a project of Healthy Futures of Texas, a 501(c)(3) organization based in San Antonio, Texas. The coalition promotes access to preventive and preconception healthcare for Texas women — with a focus on low-income, uninsured women of reproductive age — through legislative advocacy, budget advocacy, public education, and coalition organizing. Its core advocacy priorities center on increased funding for three state safety-net programs (Healthy Texas Women, the Family Planning Program, and Breast and Cervical Cancer Services), expanded birth control access, mobile women's health units, and maternal health policy reform.

TWHC operates through a community-led go-to-market model: a Steering Committee of approximately 10 member organizations directs strategy, while a general membership of over 60 organizations — spanning healthcare providers, advocacy groups, faith organizations, and professional medical associations such as the Texas Medical Association, Every Body Texas, and Texans Care for Children — provides grassroots advocacy reach. The coalition maintains no proprietary technology; its digital presence consists of a WordPress website (texaswhc.org), a multi-part Birth Control Blog series, a policy materials archive, a CiviCRM-managed newsletter, and standard social media channels. Core outputs are policy materials (legislative testimony, budget comments, one-pagers, reports), educational toolkits (Texas LARC Toolkit, TexasAIM materials), and in-person events including Advocacy Day at the Texas Capitol and Legislative Staffer Lunch & Learns.

TWHC's business model is that of a public charity nonprofit. Revenue is generated through donations, grants, and supporter contributions processed through its parent organization Healthy Futures of Texas. No revenue is publicly disclosed. The coalition does not sell products or services; instead, its measurable outcomes are policy wins — most notably helping secure $20 million in state funding for mobile women's health units during the 89th Texas Legislative Session, doubling the prior cycle's allocation. The organization employs 1–10 staff, with a named leadership team including the Chair, Policy Director, Women's Health Policy Advisor, Advocacy Communications Manager, and Women's Health Policy & Advocacy Coordinator.

Name

Texas Women's Healthcare Coalition (TWHC)

Legal name

Texas Women's Health Coalition

Website

https://texaswhc.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Texas Women's Healthcare Coalition is a San Antonio-based 501(c)(3) advocacy coalition (project of Healthy Futures of Texas) that mobilizes 60+ member organizations to advance state policy and funding for women's preventive healthcare, family planning, and maternal health programs serving low-income uninsured Texas women.

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Headquarters

HQ city

Austin

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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B2B

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Services

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Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Donations and Grants: TWHC operates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit project of Healthy Futures of Texas. Revenue is generated through donations, grants, and supporter contributions. The coalition maintains a donation page hosted through Healthy Futures of Texas's platform.

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Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

TWHC is a non-profit advocacy coalition that promotes access to preventive and preconception healthcare for Texas women. It conducts legislative advocacy, publishes policy materials and testimony, and coordinates a statewide membership of healthcare providers, advocacy organizations, and faith groups to influence funding and policy for programs such as Healthy Texas Women, Family Planning Program, and Breast and Cervical Cancer Services.

Product overview

Texas Women's Healthcare Coalition (TWHC) is a non-profit advocacy coalition, not a commercial product company. TWHC provides advocacy services, educational resources, and a membership program to promote access to preventive healthcare for Texas women. Their offerings include policy advocacy materials, educational tools covering birth control and maternal health topics, and a coalition membership network connecting organizations across the state.

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Products and services

• Advocacy and Policy Resources
• Educational Tools and Materials
• Coalition Membership Program

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Ideal customer profiles2 records

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core, key and supporting.

• Healthy Futures of TexascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerHealthy Futures of Texas is TWHC's parent 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. TWHC is formally a project of Healthy Futures of Texas, which processes all donations and provides organizational infrastructure. Healthy Futures of Texas is based in San Antonio.
• Every Body TexascoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEvery Body Texas is a Steering Committee member of TWHC and a collaborative partner on provider resources. Together with TWHC and ASTHO, they created the Texas Long-Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Toolkit for healthcare providers.
• Texans Care for ChildrenkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexans Care for Children is a Steering Committee member of TWHC. Their Director of Health Policy serves as a contributing author on TWHC's blog regarding the congenital syphilis provider hotline, demonstrating close collaborative advocacy on maternal and child health issues.
• South Texas Family Planning & Health Corporation (STFPHC)keyStrategic or Co-development PartnerSTFPHC is a TWHC member organization. TWHC led advocacy for $10 million in state funding for mobile women's health units, which enabled STFPHC to launch the 'Medical Support Squad' mobile clinic. TWHC spotlights STFPHC's mobile unit operations as a model of advocacy impact.
• Texas Medical AssociationkeyStrategic or Co-development PartnerTexas Medical Association is a Steering Committee member of TWHC and co-hosts Legislative Staffer Lunch & Learns with TWHC, the SAFE Alliance, and Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA).
• SAFE AlliancesupportingGTM or Marketing PartnerThe SAFE Alliance partnered with TWHC, Texas Medical Association, and TAASA to host Legislative Staffer Lunch & Learns, providing presentations on emergency contraception, STI testing/treatment, and women's health issues, and offering tours of their forensic clinic.
• Texas Association Against Sexual Assault (TAASA)supportingGTM or Marketing PartnerTAASA co-hosted Legislative Staffer Lunch & Learn events with TWHC and partner organizations, contributing expertise on sexual assault support services and women's health issues.
• UTMB Health — Regional Maternal and Child Health Program (RMCHP)keyStrategic or Co-development PartnerRMCHP at UTMB Health joined TWHC as a coalition member. TWHC staff visited RMCHP facilities in Houston, highlighting the program's scale (40,000+ women served annually) and comprehensive prenatal care model. The collaboration strengthens TWHC's reach in East Texas.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Planned Parenthood Federation of America: The largest national reproductive health advocacy and provider organization. While much broader in scope and footprint than TWHC, Planned Parenthood operates in the same women's preventive healthcare, contraception access, and policy advocacy space and competes for the same donor and legislative attention in Texas.
• American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: The national professional association for OB-GYNs that produces clinical guidelines and policy positions on women's health. Comparable to TWHC as an advocacy voice on women's preventive and reproductive healthcare, but operates at the national professional society level rather than as a state-focused coalition.
• Texas Medical Association: The largest state medical society in Texas and a TWHC Steering Committee member that co-hosts legislative education events. While broader in scope (all medical specialties), TMA engages in similar legislative advocacy on women's health issues and represents physician providers alongside TWHC's policy work.
• Center for Reproductive Rights: An international legal and policy advocacy organization for reproductive health rights. It works in a similar advocacy and policy-influence space as TWHC but focuses on legal strategies and global issues rather than state-level legislative funding advocacy.

Direct peers

• Every Body Texas: A Texas-focused reproductive health and family planning advocacy organization. Every Body Texas sits on TWHC's Steering Committee and co-developed the Texas LARC Toolkit with TWHC, making it a directly comparable peer in family planning and provider-resource advocacy.
• National Partnership for Women & Families: A national nonprofit advocacy organization focused on women's health, reproductive rights, and workplace policies. It is structurally comparable to TWHC — policy research, legislative advocacy, coalition building — but operates federally rather than at the state level.
• Healthy Futures of Texas: The parent 501(c)(3) nonprofit of TWHC, based in San Antonio. Healthy Futures of Texas operates adjacent women's and adolescent health programs in Texas and shares the same mission domain and Texas policy advocacy arena as TWHC.
• Texans Care for Children: A Texas-based child and family advocacy nonprofit that, like TWHC, engages in legislative advocacy, policy research, and coalition organizing around health policy. Texans Care for Children is also a TWHC Steering Committee member, making it the closest direct operational peer.

Emerging players

• Guttmacher Institute: A research and policy organization focused on sexual and reproductive health, producing data and analysis that informs advocacy. Comparable to TWHC in producing evidence-based policy materials, but operates as a think tank rather than a member-driven advocacy coalition.

Others

• Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF): A major health policy research organization that publishes widely-cited analysis on women's health, Medicaid family planning programs, and state-level reproductive health policy. Functions as an enabler/thematically related organization whose research often underpins TWHC's advocacy positions.

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Competitive moat4 records

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