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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 FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$9k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$292kHuman Services$92kCivil Rights$52kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$9k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$8,571
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
DC KinCare Alliance$8,571
Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance$7,500
The Human Trafficking Legal Center$7,500
American University$7,500
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Mothers Outreach Network: $9k → 14%Mothers Outreach Network: $9k → 14%Mothers Outreach Network: $9k → 14%Mothers Outreach Network: $8k → 14%Safe Sisters Circle: $6k → 14%Ayuda: $10k → 14%Ayuda: $7k → 14%AYUDA: $6k → 14%DC Kincare Alliance: $10k → 14%DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $10k → 14%DC KinCare Alliance: $9k → 14%DC KinCare Alliance: $9k → 14%DC KinCare Alliance: $8k → 14%African Communities Together: $8k → 14%Ayuda: $7k → 14%DC Kincare Alliance: $7k → 14%Network for Victim Recovery of DC: $9k → 14%Network For Victim Recovery: $8k → 14%NETWORK FOR VICTIM RECOVERY OF DC: $8k → 14%Network for Victim Recovery of DC: $8k → 14%Network For Victim Recovery: $7k → 14%Network for Victim Recovery: $7k → 14%Safe Sisters Circle: $10k → 14%SAFE SISTERS CIRCLE: $10k → 14%Safe Sisters Circle: $9k → 14%Safe Sisters Circle: $9k → 14%Safe Sisters Circle: $8k → 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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 72% of Women's Bar Association Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Women's Bar Association Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$399k · 10 repeat orgs$61k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +109% since the first grant, against +51% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$399k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther
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

  • FS
    FIRST SHIFT JUSTICE PROJECT
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +229%
  • DK
    DC KINCARE ALLIANCE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +383%
  • SS
    Safe Sisters Circle
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +51%
  • BF
    BREAD FOR THE CITY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +59%
  • DO
    District of Columbia School of Law Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue -31%
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

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
District of Columbia Access to Justice

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.

Crime & Legal
2
Dc Bar Pro Bono Center

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…

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3
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
4
Council for Court Excellence

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.

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5
Sexual Violence Law Center

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…

Human Services
6
Dc Affordable Law Firm

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…

Human Services
7
Disability Law Center of Virginia

Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…

Human Services
8
The Women's Law Center of Md Inc

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,…

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9
National Veterans Legal Services Program Inc

To provide at no cost legal assistance to veterans of the u.s. armed forces and current service members.

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10
Twin Cities Diversity in Practice

To attract, recruit, advance, and retain attorneys of color in the twin cities through education and collaboration with member organizations.

Community Improvement
11
Equal Justice Center

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…

Civil Rights
12
Legal Aid Bureau Inc

We advocate with and for marylanders experiencing poverty to achieve equity and social justice through free civil legal services, community collaboration, and systems change.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dc Kincare Alliance; 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.
05the grantee network

18 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $51,571 · Human ServicesDC KINCARE ALLIANCESafe Sisters Circle: $51,071 · Human ServicesSafe Sisters CircleVOLARE: $45,571 · Human ServicesVOLAREMOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK: $33,821 · Human ServicesMOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORKAYUDA INC: $29,500 · Human ServicesAYUDA INCAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesAMARA LEGAL CENTER: $51,071 · Crime & LegalAMARA LEGAL CENTERTZEDEK DC INC: $16,250 · Crime & LegalTZEDEK DC INCTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER: $7,500 · Crime & LegalTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKI…MIL MUJERES INC: $5,500 · Crime & LegalMIL MUJERES INCFIRST SHIFT JUSTICE PROJECT: $52,071 · Civil RightsFIRST SHIFT …VOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $50,071 · Housing & ShelterVOLUNTEER LE…LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY: $18,000 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $9,000 · OtherAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationDistrict of Columbia School of Law Foundation: $7,500 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $9,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$219,034Crime & Legal$80,321Civil Rights$52,071Housing & Shelter$50,071Other$27,000Education$22,500Food & Nutrition$9,000

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 budgetFIRST SHIFT JUSTICE PROJECT: $52,071 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetDC KINCARE ALLIANCE: $51,571 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetSafe Sisters Circle: $51,071 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetAMARA LEGAL CENTER: $51,071 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVOLUNTEER LEGAL ADVOCATES: $50,071 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVOLARE: $45,571 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMOTHERS OUTREACH NETWORK: $33,821 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetAYUDA INC: $29,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTZEDEK DC INC: $16,250 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD FOR THE CITY INC: $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDistrict of Columbia School of Law Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HUMAN TRAFFICKING LEGAL CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMIL MUJERES INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Greater Washington Co…The Morris and Gwendo…The District of Colum…The Sidley Austin Fou…Eugene & Agnes E Meye…The Morrison & Foerst…Equal Justice WorksPhilip L Graham Fund …Miller & Chevalier Ch…Venable Foundation IncClark-Winchcole Found…Georgetown University
Greater Washington Community FoundationDC28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Women's Bar Association Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Bar Association Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 18 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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