Minnesota · Nonprofit
BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT
BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,182 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($192,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $601k
- Net assets
- $351k
What Battered Women's Legal Advocacy Project does
Mission
To promote justice for domestic and sexual violence victims--standpoint achieves its mission by advocating for system change, for secure access to justice for all, and to improve the legal system's response to domestic and sexual violence victims.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal advocacy/legal resources: standpoint is the only statewide agency providing immediate and free legal advice, consultation, and technical assistance to victims of domestic and sexual violence and the professionals who work with them. We serve thousands of individuals and agencies every year. Many of standpoint's services begin with a phone call to our action line, which is available to individual victims, advocates, attorneys, and other professionals. Trained advocates and attorneys answer the action line, providing triage on the spot. Moreover, while our services focus on the legal aspects of domestic and sexual violence, our range of expertise is exceedingly broad. Topics of concern include: orders for protection, divorce, custody, parenting time, immigration, identity theft, employment, housing, etc.
$1,051,513 spent$9,795 earned by the program97% of program spendingNew laws training:the organization provides expert training to domestic and sexual violence advocates, attorneys, and other system professionals on all aspects of domestic and sexual violence-related law in minnesota. The annual new laws training program, held at six accessible sites statewide, is the most visible of the programs. New laws is the single greatest source of up-to-date legal information to advocates, attorneys, and other systems professionals. New laws focuses on legal changes over the prior year that could impact domestic and sexual violence victims. New laws includes information on minnesota's legislative changes, minnesota court of appeals decisions, minnesota supreme court decisions, minnesota's tribal court changes, immigration policy changes, and federal legislative changes.
$27,000 spent$9,520 earned by the program3% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2022 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,078,513.
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 2024 to 2025, from $329k to $520k (+58%).
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 66% · 2019 80% · 2020 78% · 2021 71% · 2022 80% · 2023 79% · 2024 78% · 2025 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $26k → $35k.
5 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 49% 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
59% 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 34% · 2019 100% · 2020 62% · 2021 36% · 2022 29% · 2023 42% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
100% of BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $297k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.2M
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 LEGAL ADVOCACY 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
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 LEGAL ADVOCACY 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT?
- BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT (Minnesota) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $601,182 to it, the largest being SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION ($192,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $601,182 in grants to BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY PROJECT?
- SAINT PAUL & MINNESOTA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $192,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BATTERED WOMEN'S LEGAL ADVOCACY 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.
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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 19 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