How Womyn Owned works
Womyn Owned is an independent directory of SBA-listed women-owned B2B vendors. We report what public federal registries publish — accurately, sourced, and dated — so procurement teams can find and verify women-owned suppliers without guessing.
Where the data comes from
Every listing is built from the U.S. SBA Small Business Search (search.certifications.sba.gov), the federal government's public record of small businesses and their SBA certifications. We list the 23,186 firms the registry shows with an active Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB) or Economically-Disadvantaged WOSB (EDWOSB) entry, and we surface any additional active federal certifications they hold (8(a), HUBZone, SDVOSB, VOSB). Where the end date the registry publishes for every one of a firm's WOSB/EDWOSB entries has passed, the profile says so instead of presenting it as certified.
How the federal award figure is calculated
The homepage figure (512 listed firms, about $2.8 billion) is the sum of each firm's USAspending.gov recipient-profile total (total_transaction_amount at its default “latest” period: a recent window of federal award transactions, not lifetime), matched to the firm by its SBA UEI and retrieved 2026-06-10. A firm is included when USAspending shows at least one federal contract award to its UEI since October 2007; the amount is whatever its recipient profile reports for that period. Only positive totals are summed, and firms with no USAspending record contribute nothing. It covers just the 512 of 23,186 listed firms that matched, so it is a partial floor and not the total federal spending with women-owned businesses.
The per-profile “top agencies” amounts are a different measure: the lifetime award value of that firm's largest contract awards since October 2007, grouped by awarding agency. The two do not reconcile and are not meant to. Each profile links to its USAspending recipient page so any figure can be checked at the source.
What we do — and don't
We report certification status exactly as the registry publishes it, with the date we retrieved it and a link back to the official record. We do not issue, verify, vouch for, or guarantee any certification, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the SBA, WBENC, or any certifying body. Certifications can change — always confirm current status at the linked SBA source before contracting.
How listings are ranked
This directory has no star ratings and no pay-to-rank — these registries carry no review data, so inventing one would be dishonest. Where listings are ordered (for example on Most credentialed), the ranking is an honest composite of registry-sourced signals: certification recency, the breadth of active certifications, verified-source provenance, and how complete the public profile is.
Certifications, briefly
WOSB and EDWOSB are federal programs administered through the SBA for businesses that are at least 51% owned and controlled by women (EDWOSB adds an economic-disadvantage test). A third-party WBENC certification is separate; where a vendor tells us they hold one, we show it as self-reported and clearly note it is not independently verified. See the certifications overview.
Privacy, corrections & removal
We display only business-identifying information that the public registry marks as displayable, and we honor the registry's display opt-outs. If you are a listed business and want to claim, correct, or remove your listing, use claim or correct a listing — we will action verified requests promptly.