Virginia · 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.
- $82k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,571
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,571
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 10
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Women's Bar Association Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $82k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $75k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $83k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $70k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $85k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Shift Justice Project | $52,071 | 6 | 4% |
| DC Kincare Alliance | $51,571 | 6 | 7% |
| Safe Sisters Circle | $51,071 | 6 | 3% |
| Amara Legal Center | $51,071 | 6 | 2% |
| Volunteer Legal Advocates | $50,071 | 6 | 0% |
| Volare | $45,571 | 6 | 0% |
| Mothers Outreach Network | $33,821 | 4 | 1% |
| Ayuda Inc | $29,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Legal Counsel for the Elderly | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tzedek DC Inc | $16,250 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Shift Justice Project | $52,071 | 6 | 4% |
| DC Kincare Alliance | $51,571 | 6 | 7% |
| Safe Sisters Circle | $51,071 | 6 | 3% |
| Amara Legal Center | $51,071 | 6 | 2% |
| Volunteer Legal Advocates | $50,071 | 6 | 0% |
| Volare | $45,571 | 6 | 0% |
| Mothers Outreach Network | $33,821 | 4 | 1% |
| Ayuda Inc | $29,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Legal Counsel for the Elderly | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Tzedek DC Inc | $16,250 | 2 | 0% |
| Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bread for the City Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| District of Columbia School of Law Foundation | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| African Communities Together Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Human Trafficking Legal Center | $7,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Mil Mujeres Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Women's Bar Association Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Women's Bar Association Foundation
- How much does Women's Bar Association Foundation give?
- Women's Bar Association Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $82,497 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Women's Bar Association Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (63%), Human Services (20%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Women's Bar Association Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: First Shift Justice Project ($52k), DC Kincare Alliance ($52k), Safe Sisters Circle ($51k).
- Does Women's Bar Association Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Women's Bar Association Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Washington Community Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The District of Columbia Bar Foundation.
- Where is Women's Bar Association Foundation based?
- Women's Bar Association Foundation is based in VA.
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