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National Women's Law Center
Washington, DC · EIN 52-1213010. Reported 99 grants totalling $4,870,474 to 75 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 75 distinct organizations, with 32% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 22% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $38,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $993,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Venture Fund | Washington, DC | $1,548,554 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc | New York, NY | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Jobs With Justice Education Fund | Washington, DC | $236,420 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Hopewell Fund | Washington, DC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| State Innovation Exchange | Madison, WI | $182,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Take Creative Control Inc | Washington, DC | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Institute of Intellectual Property & Social Justice Inc | Rockville, MD | $140,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Metanoia | N Charleston, SC | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ole Education Fund | Albuquerque, NM | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| 9 to 5 National Association of Working Women | Milwaukee, WI | $134,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Freedom for All Americans Education Fund | Washington, DC | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Trust Women Foundation Inc | Wichita, KS | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mothering Justice | Detroit, MI | $96,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Abortion Action Missouri Foundation | Saint Louis, MO | $75,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Memphis Center for Reproductive | Memphis, TN | $70,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Tba Fund Inc | Safety Harbor, FL | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom | Denver, CO | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ohio Womens Alliance | Columbus, OH | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence | Lexington, KY | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Black Women for Wellness | Los Angeles, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| National Asian Pacific American Womens Forum | Chicago, IL | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Sisterreach | Memphis, TN | $38,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Women's March Network | Brooklyn, NY | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Asian Community Development Council | Las Vegas, NV | $32,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Partnership for Southern Equity | Atlanta, GA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Women's March Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Education & Training Institute Inc | New Brunswick, NJ | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Neo Philanthropy Inc | New York, NY | $26,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Birth Control Advocates of New York | Brooklyn, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Birth in Color Rva Foundation | Richmond, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Blue Mountain Clinic Inc | Missoula, MT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Right | Denver, CO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc | Boise, ID | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mabel Wadsworth Womens Health Center | Bangor, ME | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health | Lansing, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Reclaim Inc | Westland, MI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Share Equity | Saratoga, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southwest Womens Law Center | Albuquerque, NM | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trust Women Foundation Inc | Wichita, KS | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Times's Up Foundation | Encino, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| West Alabama Womens Center Inc | Tuscaloosa, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Women With a Vision | New Orleans, LA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Womens Law Project | Philadelphia, PA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Womxn Project Education Fund | Providence, RI | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yellowhammer Fund | Birmingham, AL | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence | Phoenix, AZ | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Little Rock Family Planning Services Pllc | Little Rock, AR | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Womens Rights and Empowerment Network | Columbia, SC | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| North Main Street Fund | Concord, NH | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network Inc | Lincoln, NE | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Everthrive Illinois | Chicago, IL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Gender Justice | Saint Paul, MN | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Janes Due Process Inc | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Justice for Migrant Women | Fremont, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Landmark Partners USA Inc | Rockville Centre, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds | Orlando, FL | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Organizing and Family Issues | Chicago, IL | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Abortion Fund of Ohio | Columbus, OH | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault | Denver, CO | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| DC Abortion Fund | Washington, DC | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Forum for Equality Foundation | New Orleans, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assualt | Adel, IA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc | Louisville, KY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Maine Womens Lobby Education Fund | Augusta, ME | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation | Jackson, MS | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies Inc | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Generation Hope | Washington, DC | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| National Network of Abortion Funds | Dallas, TX | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| California Child Care Resource & Referral Network | San Francisco, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Child Care Coalition of the Niag Frontier Inc | Buffalo, NY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Child Care Law Center | Berkeley, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Family Forward Oregon | Portland, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| North Dakota Women in Need | Fargo, ND | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Red River Women's Clinic | Fargo, ND | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
17 of 75 (23%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Women's March Inc
CHARITABLE EVENT/DONATION
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 61 of 75 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 32 | $791,500 | $12,500 |
| 2021 | 20 | $1,757,000 | $21,000 |
| 2022 | 27 | $1,598,764 | $25,000 |
| 2023 | 20 | $723,210 | $27,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
46% of its giving went to organizations in District of Columbia. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in District of Columbia.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from National Women's Law Center's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 17 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 3 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 1350 I Street Nw 700, Washington, DC, 20005.
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