· Public charity
Barbara McDowell Social Justice
We litigate, advocate, and educate on behalf of underserved and underrepresented communities across the country to bridge the widening gap between the rich and the poor and the powerful and the voiceless.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JULIAN | $30,000 |
| AMICA CENTER FOR IMM RIGHTS | $30,000 |
| CTR FOR GENDER & REF STUDIES | $30,000 |
| LAWYERS COMM FOR CIVIL RIGHTS | $30,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
4 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Barbara McDowell Social Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Barbara McDowell Social Justice. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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