New York · Nonprofit
Equality Now Inc
Equality Now Inc (New York) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,540,509 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,074,869). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 135
- Grants received
- $51M
- Net assets
- $28M
What Equality Now Inc does
Mission
To achieve legal and systematic change that addresses violence and discrimination against women and girls around the world.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
We envision a world in which all women and men have equal rights under the law, and full enjoyment of their human rights. We strive to achieve this through four distinct pathways - legal, advocacy and collaboration, and resourcing in four main areas of programming to: Achieve Legal Equality, End Sexual Violence, End Sexual Exploitation and End Harmful Practices. We strive to facilitate systemic legal change that addresses violence and discrimination against all women and girls around the world. We advocate for the development and implementation of progressive laws and jurisprudence in alignment with international law and standards and foster environments that respect women and girls. We also bring strategic litigation cases cases to set relevant precedents on women's and girls' rights before national, regional and international courts. We work in partnership with a broad and diverse range of actors, including most critically grassroots women's rights organization in coalitions around the world, to increase our reach and impact. We amplify survivors' voices to educate policymakers about the lived impact of violence. We conduct and publish research into regional and national laws…
$8,429,721 spentof which $818,052 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,429,721.
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 2021 to 2022, from $17M to $30M (+81%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of Equality Now Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (96% 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.
Chief executive
Sharmila Mona Sinha
Global Executive Director
Board chair
Chadia El Meouchi
Co-Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 31 funders to 48 funders, grant income rose $837k → $4.2M.
28 of 135 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 40% 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 Equality Now Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 135 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
Equality Now Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% 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
41% 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 Equality Now Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 34% · 2019 57% · 2020 32% · 2021 27% · 2022 72% · 2023 31% — 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
32% of Equality Now Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
Equality Now Inc draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 20 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $20M arriving through sponsors registered in 14 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
Equality Now Inc runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 363 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 363 international nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like Equality Now Inc
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 35 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- EQUALITY NOW (London Office) · disregarded
- EQUALITY NOW (Africa Office) · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Equality Now Inc: 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 Equality Now Inc?
- Equality Now Inc (New York) receives grants from 135 organizations whose IRS filings report $50,540,509 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($15,074,869). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Equality Now Inc have?
- IRS filings report 135 organizations giving $50,540,509 in grants to Equality Now Inc, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Equality Now Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $15,074,869 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Equality Now Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 135 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing