Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
AEQUITAS
AEQUITAS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,256,619 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($900,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.4M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $894k
What Aequitas does
Mission
Aequitas' mission is to improve the quality of justice in intimate partner violence, sexual violence, stalking, and human trafficking cases by developing, evaluating, and refining prosecution practices that increase victim safety and offender accountability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Innovative prosecution practices - identify and sustain data-driven, research-based prosecution practices that enhance capacity and outcomes in community safety and promote multi- and intra-disciplinary collaboration to achieve fair, impartial and expeditious pursuits of justice; ensure safe communities; and promote integrity in the prosecution profession and coordination in the criminal justice system by providing research-informed, data-driven training and technical assistance (e.g., utilizing algorithms to identify high risk domestic violence and gun violence offenders; prosecutor-led youthful offender diversion programs, and specialized human trafficking courts, prosecution practices related to sexual violence, domestic violence, stalking, and related human trafficking), convening meetings, workshops and other education sessions, and developing resources.
$1,483,004 spentof which $207,448 as grants$6,274 earned by the program39% of program spendingHuman trafficking and exploitation - continue to raise awareness of the dynamics and indicators of human trafficking and challenge prosecutors and allied professionals (including task forces) to reevaluate their approach to detecting, investigating, and prosecuting human trafficking crimes by providing technical assistance (e.g., conducting trauma-informed interviews, collecting digital evidence, charging considerations, closing onramps to and providing exit ramps from exploitation), informed by research and experience, and training professionals on customizable strategies that are accessible, responsive, and easy to implement.
$1,298,617 spent$32,791 earned by the program34% of program spendingStalking - ensure first responders and other allied professionals have the specialized knowledge to identify and respond to the crime of stalking by providing specialized training, and technical assistance on best and promising practices (e.g., identifying stalking within the context of intersecting crimes (e.g., intimate partner violence), stalking specific threat assessment); developing and distributing accurate, current, and practical resources on stalking (e.g., stalking incident and behavior log; advocate guide on stalking; prosecutors' guide to stalking); and promoting awareness-raising activities with a special focus on stalking awareness month.
$790,956 spent$11,721 earned by the program21% of program spendingSexual violence - support prosecutors' capacity to effectively prosecute known offender, cold case, multiple defendant, technology-facilitated, intimate partner, and campus sexual assault and rape cases by providing meaningful access to data-driven, research- informed, and experience-based strategies through technical assistance, mentorship, and case consultation (e.g., consulting with experts, preparing to select jurors, anticipating and countering defenses). Also provide training and develop resources for professionals to help sustain effective practices and promote systemic change (e.g., model response to sexual violence for prosecutors).
$271,664 spent$1,004 earned by the program7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,844,241.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.4M to $2.7M (+93%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 90% · 2019 92% · 2020 86% · 2021 62% · 2022 83% · 2023 55% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of AEQUITAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jennifer Gentile Long
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $300k → $300k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AEQUITAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AEQUITAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
28% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AEQUITAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 92% · 2022 94% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
AEQUITAS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $300k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AEQUITAS has grown faster than half of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding AEQUITAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $21.2M on record — $21.2M federal, $63k state.
- Department of Justice$21.2M
- NJ$62k
- VT$1k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like AEQUITAS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for AEQUITAS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AEQUITAS?
- AEQUITAS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,256,619 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($900,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AEQUITAS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $1,256,619 in grants to AEQUITAS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AEQUITAS?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $900,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AEQUITAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing