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National Women's Law Center Action Fund

The NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ACTION FUND is a social welfare organization whose purpose is to promote the securing of equal rights and opportunities for women.

$219k
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$203kCivil Rights$201kEmployment$118kPublic Benefit$118kCrime & Legal$100kInternational$50kHealth$10kSocial Science$8k
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $214,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $218,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,800 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$8,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL$100,000
COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION$40,000
MICHIGAN ORGANIZATION ON ADOLEESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH$10,000
COLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$8,000
MARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY$8,000
WOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK$8,000
9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN$8,000
EQUALITY VIRGINIA$8,000
NC COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT$8,000
EQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC$8,000
NEW VOICES PITTSBURGH$8,000
02The need
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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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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $203k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK: $25k → 20%MomsRising Together: $78k → 9%REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $100k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
MI
NY
NV
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
FL
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 field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women Winning

To encourage, promote, support, and elect pro-choice women of all political parties to all levels of public office in minnesota.

Public Benefit
2
UltraViolet Action

Ultraviolet action (uva) is a 501c4 organization. ultraviolet action is the premier national organization advocating for gender justice issues using creative, strategic campaigning and digital-first organizing. ultraviolet drives feminist…

Public Benefit
3
Legal Voice

Legal voice was founded on the belief that all women, girls, and lgbtq+ people should be able to live their lives with dignity, safety, and autonomy. we advance justice and build community power by using multiple strategies: litigation,…

Crime & Legal
4
Womn Act

To advance equity and justice for all women through advocacy and collaboration.

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5
Women Employed

To improve the economic status of women and remove barriers to economic equity.

Employment
6
Gender Justice

Gender justice is a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization working to advance gender equity through the law.

Crime & Legal
7
Independent Women's Voice

Engage more individuals in legislative advocacy, educate them about the impact of public policies on their lives and our economy, and build support for policies that empower individuals by giving them greater freedom and autonomy.

Civil Rights
8
Gender Justice Action

Gender justice action's mission is to advance gender equity through transformative advocacy and political action.

—
9
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
10
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

—
11
League of Women Voters of New Jersey

Through grassroots people-powered advocacy and organizing, lwvnj trains, mobilizes, and educates advocates to have a greater voice in government and influence public policy.

—
12
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Momsrising Together; the most unlike its peers is North Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
7/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

9TO5 ACTION FUND: $100,000 · Other9TO5 ACTION FUNDMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $100,000 · OtherMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUNDFAMILY VALUES WORK ACTION INC: $78,000 · OtherFAMILY VALUES WORK ACTION INCTIDES ADVOCACY: $50,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACY9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $18,000 · Other+1 more: $8,000 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $100,000 · Human ServicesREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALLMOMSRISING TOGETHER: $78,000 · Human ServicesMOMSRISING TOGETHERCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INCMICHIGAN ORGANIZATION ON ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $8,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $118,000 · Public BenefitCENTER FOR COMMU…ONE APIA NEVADA: $50,000 · InternationalParent Voices Action: $25,000 · EducationEQUALITY FLORIDA INSTITUTE INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsNEW VOICES PITTSBURGH INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsEQUALITY VIRGINIA INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsMARYLAND CENTER ON ECONOMIC POLICY INC: $8,000 · Social ScienceCOLORADO ORGANIZATION FOR LATINA OPPORTUNITY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS: $8,000 · Health
Other$354,000Human Services$221,000Public Benefit$118,000International$50,000Education$25,000Civil Rights$24,000Social Science$8,000Health$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE ACTION: $118,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget9TO5 ACTION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMOTHERING JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMOMSRISING TOGETHER: $78,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY VALUES WORK ACTION INC: $78,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE APIA NEVADA: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetParent Voices Action: $25,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget9TO5 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WORKING WOMEN INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMICHIGAN ORGANIZATION ON ADOLESCENT SEXUAL HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWOMENS RIGHTS AND EMPOWERMENT NETWORK: $8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorth Carolina Coalition Against Sexual Assault Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sixteen Thirty FundTides FoundationHopewell FundNEO Philanthropy IncNational Women's Law …Center for Community …Open Society Action F…Tides AdvocacyAmalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundOur American Future A…Groundswell Fund
Sixteen Thirty FundDC23.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sixteen Thirty Fund · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · National Women's Law Center · Center for Community Change Action · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Tides Advocacy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Our American Future Action · Groundswell Fund

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 National Women's Law Center Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Women's Law Center Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%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
    2get no government money at all
    2report 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.
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    How do I get to National Women's Law Center Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to National Women's Law Center Action Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 19 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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