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Battered Women's Justice Project

Bwjp promotes systemic change with the civil and criminal justice systems to ensure an effective and just response to victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence and the children exposed to this violence.

$394k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$394k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Crime & Legal$2.4MHealth$224k
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$393,512
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENCE OF BATTERED WOMEN$393,512
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENCE OF BATTERED WOMEN: $394k → 22%FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $208k → 10%DC COALITION AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $200k → 14%HEKTOEN INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $104k → 14%LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 8%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $40k → 16%NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMAN: $323k → 22%NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $18k → 14%NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $39k → 16%NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMAN: $320k → 22%NATIONAL NETWORK TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $15k → 14%NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMEN: $320k → 22%NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMAN: $319k → 22%NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMAN: $287k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 3 repeat orgs$548k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against -30% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$2.1M
$548k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
-30%

Still filing today

33%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Crime & LegalYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • NC
    NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMEN
    7× · 2017–2023 · $2.0M · revenue -43% · 88% of their budget
  • NA
    NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $120k
  • National Network to End Domestic Violence Inc
    2× · 2017–2018 · $34k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • FUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $208k · revenue +57%
  • DO
    District of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic
    one grant, 2021 · $200k · revenue -30%
  • TH
    THE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2021 · $104k · revenue -53%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMEN: $1,961,777 · OtherNATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMENFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $207,754 · OtherFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCEDistrict of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic: $200,000 · OtherDistrict of Columbia Coalition Against DomesticNORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY: $119,991 · OtherTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: $103,985 · HealthLEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES: $10,957 · Crime & LegalNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc: $33,503 · Youth Development
Other$2,489,522Health$103,985Crime & Legal$35,957Youth Development$33,503

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THE DEFENSE OF BATTERED WOMEN: $1,961,777 over 7y, 88% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $207,754 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDistrict of Columbia Coalition Against Domestic: $200,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: $103,985 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNational Network to End Domestic Violence Inc: $33,503 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetNATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES: $10,957 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Battered Women's Justice Project funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Battered Women's Justice Project. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 8 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $9k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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