How much does National Women's Law Center give?

National Women's Law Center reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,858,543, out of $2,584,957 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does National Women's Law Center fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Civil Rights (24%), Public Benefit (10%).

Who are National Women's Law Center's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: National Women's Law Center Action Fund ($585k), Jobs with Justice Education Fund ($336k), National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ($300k).

Does National Women's Law Center fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as National Women's Law Center?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hopewell Fund, New Venture Fund, Groundswell Fund.

Where is National Women's Law Center based?

National Women's Law Center is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

National Women's Law Center

To advance and protect women's legal rights. The center focuses on major policy areas of importance to women and their families including education, employment, family economic security, and health, with special attention given to the concerns of low-income women.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 19
Itemized grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 42%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $1.9M; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $31,270
Largest grant, FY2025: $560,000
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 33; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 13
Total assets, FY2025: $106M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 42% of the organizations National Women's Law Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 29% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $207k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Civil RightsHuman ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationCrime & LegalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	17	$1.3M	41%
FY2024	19	$708k	42%
FY2023	26	$1.0M	73%
FY2022	17	$547k	65%
FY2021	31	$774k	71%
FY2020	2	$30k	100%
FY2019	33	$1.2M	100%
FY2018	1	$25k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$2.3MCivil Rights$1.9MPublic Benefit$802kHealth$756kCrime & Legal$704kHuman Services$441kEmployment$381kCommunity Improvement$362kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Women's Law Center Action Fund	$585,000	2	19%
Jobs with Justice Education Fund	$336,420	4	2%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$300,000	2	1%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc	$184,000	5	1%
State Innovation Exchange	$182,500	2	1%
Metanoia	$164,500	3	2%
The Ole Education Fund	$163,500	3	2%
Take Creative Control Inc	$150,000	1	18%
Center for Law and Social Policy	$147,273	1	1%
Institute of Intellectual Property & Social Justice	$140,000	1	11%

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All grantees of National Women's Law Center by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
National Women's Law Center Action Fund	$585,000	2	19%
Jobs with Justice Education Fund	$336,420	4	2%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$300,000	2	1%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc	$184,000	5	1%
State Innovation Exchange	$182,500	2	1%
Metanoia	$164,500	3	2%
The Ole Education Fund	$163,500	3	2%
Take Creative Control Inc	$150,000	1	18%
Center for Law and Social Policy	$147,273	1	1%
Institute of Intellectual Property & Social Justice	$140,000	1	11%
Trust Women Foundation Inc	$125,000	2	2%
Mothering Justice	$106,000	4	2%
National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum	$105,000	2	1%
Freedom for All Americans Education Fund	$100,000	1	2%
Abortion Action Missouri Foundation	$90,000	3	2%
Partnership for Community Action	$75,000	1	2%
Transformative Organizational Consulting	$75,000	1	51%
Women's Law Project	$75,000	2	1%
Memphis Center For Reproductive Health Inc	$70,000	3	1%
Black Women for Wellness	$65,000	3	2%
Sisterreach	$63,000	3	1%
Mabel Wadsworth Women's Health Ctr	$62,500	2	4%
Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc	$55,500	3	2%
Tba Fund Inc	$55,000	3	11%
New Voices Pittsburgh Inc	$50,000	1	4%
Feminist Womens Health Center Inc	$50,000	1	2%
Little Rock Family Planning Services Pllc	$50,000	2	n/a
Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Women With A Vision	$50,000	2	n/a
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas Inc	$50,000	1	63%
Coloradans for Protecting Reproductive Freedom	$50,000	1	1%
Ohio Womens Alliance	$50,000	1	3%
Open Markets Institute	$50,000	1	n/a
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$50,000	1	1%
Partnership for Southern Equity	$45,000	2	0%
Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc	$40,000	1	0%
Interfaith Worker Justice	$40,000	1	8%
Community Justice Project Inc	$40,000	1	4%
Jobs With Justice Education Fund	$40,000	1	13%
Unite Here Local 8	$40,000	1	1%
National Council for Occupational Safety & Health	$40,000	1	6%
Forge Inc	$40,000	1	9%
Latino Community Fund Inc	$40,000	1	5%
United for Respect Education Fund	$40,000	1	1%
Everthrive Illinois	$40,000	2	2%
Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project	$40,000	1	10%
New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs	$40,000	1	1%
Jane's Due Process Inc	$40,000	2	1%
Asian American Community Services	$40,000	1	5%
Healing to Action	$40,000	1	16%
Young Women's Christian Association of Greater Los Angeles	$40,000	1	0%
Womens Rights and Empowerment Network	$40,000	3	1%
Womens March Network	$35,000	2	n/a
Asian Community Development Council	$32,000	2	0%
National Indian Child Care Association	$31,270	1	7%
Womens March Inc	$30,000	1	n/a
The Education & Training Institute Inc	$26,500	1	2%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$26,500	1	0%
Indigenous Idaho Alliance Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Time's Up Foundation	$25,000	1	1%
Birth in Color Rva Foundation	$25,000	1	2%
Share Equity	$25,000	1	0%
Progress Florida Education Institute Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Blue Mountain Clinic Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Access Reproductive Care - Southeast	$25,000	1	n/a
Reclaim Inc	$25,000	1	7%
Southwest Women's Law Center	$25,000	1	3%
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights	$25,000	1	1%
West Alabama Womens Center Inc	$25,000	1	5%
Birth Control Advocates of New York	$25,000	1	6%
Ipas	$25,000	1	0%
Yellowhammer Fund	$25,000	1	1%
Womxn Project Education Fund	$25,000	1	17%
Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health	$25,000	1	1%
DC Abortion Fund	$20,000	2	2%
North Main Street Fund	$17,000	1	1%
Gender Justice	$15,000	1	0%
Justice for Migrant Women	$15,000	1	0%
Autistic Women and Nonbinary Network	$15,000	1	1%
Pregnancy Justice Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Florida Access Network	$15,000	1	2%
Landmark Partners USA	$15,000	1	n/a
Community Organizing and Family Issues	$12,000	1	0%
Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault	$10,000	1	0%
SMYAL Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Abortion Fund of Ohio	$10,000	1	1%
Kentucky Health Justice Network Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Maine Women's Lobby Education Fund	$10,000	1	3%
Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault	$10,000	1	1%
Advocates for Youth	$10,000	1	0%
West Virginia Free Incorporated	$10,000	1	1%
End Rape on Campus	$10,000	1	1%
Mississippi Coalition on Black Civic Participation	$10,000	1	1%
Forum for Equality Foundation	$10,000	1	9%
Generation Hope	$7,500	1	0%
Asian Pacific Amer InstitCongressional	$7,500	1	0%
National Network of Abortion Funds	$7,000	1	0%
Child Care Law Center	$6,000	1	0%
Child Care Coalition of the Niagara Frontier Inc	$6,000	1	0%
California Child Care Resource and Referral Network	$6,000	1	0%
Family Forward Oregon	$6,000	1	0%
North Dakota Women in Need	$5,000	1	4%
Red River Women's Clinic	$5,000	1	n/a

National Women's Law Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 92 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 92.

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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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hopewell FundDC72.5× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hopewell Fund · New Venture Fund · Groundswell Fund · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · The Overbrook Foundation

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.

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About National Women's Law Center

How much does National Women's Law Center give?: National Women's Law Center reported 19 itemized grants totaling $1,858,543, out of $2,584,957 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does National Women's Law Center fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (29%), Civil Rights (24%), Public Benefit (10%).
Who are National Women's Law Center's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: National Women's Law Center Action Fund ($585k), Jobs with Justice Education Fund ($336k), National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ($300k).
Does National Women's Law Center fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as National Women's Law Center?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hopewell Fund, New Venture Fund, Groundswell Fund.
Where is National Women's Law Center based?: National Women's Law Center is based in DC.