· Public charity
Women's Bar Association Foundation
The mission of the Foundation is to provide grants to non-profit organizations that serve the legal and related needs of women and girls in the DC metropolitan area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DC KinCare Alliance | $8,571 |
| DC Volunteer Lawyers Project | $8,571 |
| Safe Sisters Circle | $8,571 |
| Amara Legal Center | $8,571 |
| Mothers Outreach Network | $8,571 |
| First Shift Justice Project | $8,571 |
| Network for Victim Recovery of DC | $8,571 |
| Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance | $7,500 |
| The Human Trafficking Legal Center | $7,500 |
| American University | $7,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 72% of Women's Bar Association Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- FSFIRST SHIFT JUSTICE PROJECT6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +229%
- DKDC KINCARE ALLIANCE6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +383%
- SSSafe Sisters Circle6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- BFBREAD FOR THE CITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +59%
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +51%
- ACAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue +79%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.
The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.
Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…
DC Affordable Law Firm delivers accessible justice to modest-income DC residents who do not qualify for traditional sources of free civil legal services and cannot afford standard representation. Our innovative programming expands access…
Our mission is to ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the state. the women's law center of md works towards this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services,…
To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.
To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
We advocate with and for marylanders experiencing poverty to achieve equity and social justice through free civil legal services, community collaboration, and systems change.
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Kincare Alliance and the most unlike its peers is American University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIRST SHIFT JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DC KINCARE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AMARA LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Safe Sisters Circle ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds VOLARE ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds TZEDEK DC INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR THE CITY INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds District of Columbia School of Law Foundation ↗
- Who funds MIL MUJERES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · The District of Columbia Bar Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Philip L Graham Fund co Graham Holdings Company · Miller & Chevalier Charitable Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Clark-Winchcole Foundation · Georgetown University
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Women's Bar Association Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.