California · Nonprofit
CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,024 to it, the largest being LEGAL VOICE ($139,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $822k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $240k
- Net assets
- $3.9M
What California Women's Law Center does
Mission
The California Women's Law Center (cwlc) advances gender justice through impact litigation, policy advocacy, and education. Our work ensures that women and girls, especially those facing intersecting barriers due to race, income, sexual orientation, gender identity, or other marginalized identities, have equal access to education, safety, economic opportunity, and healthcare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Strategic plan goal 1: legal championthis year marked significant progress in advancing gender justice through major litigation, strategic advocacy, and expanded partnerships. After 17 years, the ollier v. Sweetwater fair play for girls in sports case reached full completion, and the college park fair play case achieved settlement, attorneysf fees approval (and payment) and the beginning of monitoring. We also continued our monitoring work in the ab v. Hawaii fair play case. We achieved final approval and began monitoring in farrell v. U.s. Department of defense a nationwide class action on behalf of lgbtq+ veterans. Our limited representation docket remained active, including three ongoing and one completed parks & recreation fair play matters, five ongoing and one closed title ix high school athletics fair play cases, and continued advocacy for domestic violence shelter clients.we deepened partnerships across both the private and nonprofit sectors: we began or maintained pro bono law firm relationships, we participated in the one justice national pro bono conference; and we renewed 15 partnerships with qualified legal services providers. And we collaborated with other women's…
$876,853 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $876,853.
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 $3.6M to $4.5M (+25%).
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: 2019 39% · 2020 38% · 2021 19% · 2022 8% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $62k → $26k.
3 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 15 of 16 funders by total. 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
CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
84% 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 CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 90% · 2019 84% · 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 43% · 2023 38% — 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
11% of CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 44% 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
CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER draws 67% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $13k 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
CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
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 CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER: 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 CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER?
- CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $240,024 to it, the largest being LEGAL VOICE ($139,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $240,024 in grants to CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER?
- LEGAL VOICE is the largest funder on record, with $139,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALIFORNIA WOMEN'S LAW CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 16 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