Minnesota · Nonprofit
BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT
BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,093,906 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $5.1M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Battered Women's Justice Project does
Mission
Bwjp promotes systemic change with the civil and criminal justice systems to ensure an effective and just response to victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence and the children exposed to this violence.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Training & technical assistance-bwjp provides training and technical assistance on related topics under national technical assistance cooperative agreements with federal agencies. Current grant activities address: parenting arrangements in custody cases involving domestic violence; defense based work for criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, reimagining coordinated community response, advocacy and systems change, improving responses for probation officers, and enforcement of existing domestic violence-related firearms prohibitions. In fy25, bwjp provided 205 trainings, trained 10,058 people, provided 3,980 instances of technical assistance, and disseminated 22,638 products.
$2,251,532 spent43% of program spendingContracts for services-bwjp is available to provide training or consultations in our areas of expertise under contracts from local, state, military, or tribal jurisdictions, public agencies and organizations.
$1,879,343 spent36% of program spendingResource centers-bwjp is the national resource center on civil and criminal justice responses to domestic violence. Services include technical assistance to victims and professionals in the field, training, policy analysis, publications, and consultation on promising policies and practices in the field. Bwjp gathers relevant research and publications to stay updated on innovations and emerging issues in the field
$1,078,466 spentof which $8,832 as grants$867,536 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,209,341.
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 $547k to $3.1M (+469%).
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 98% · 2018 92% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 95% · 2022 89% · 2023 46% · 2024 82% · 2025 68%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% 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.
Board chair
Laura Castellanos
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $620k → $2.7M.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% 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 BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT’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
BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
75% 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 BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 83% · 2020 83% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 91% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
22% of BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 35% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
50% of BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $2.5M that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT has grown faster than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $26.2M on record — $26.2M federal, $4k state.
- Department of Justice$14.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$12.1M
- OK$2k
- OR$2k
- VT$492
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 BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT?
- BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,093,906 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($2,500,000). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 50% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $5,093,906 in grants to BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $2,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATTERED WOMEN'S JUSTICE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 23 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