Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FREE WOMEN WRITERS
FREE WOMEN WRITERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,399 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($25,367). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2021
- $127k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $37k
- Net assets
- $11k
What Free Women Writers does
Mission
Free Women Writers is a non-partisan, and all-volunteer 501(c)(3) organization composed of writers, students, and activists based in Afghanistan and the diaspora and working for a more equal and just Afghanistan. Free Women Writers works to improve the lives of Afghan women through advocacy, storytelling, and education. Using traditional and "new" media, events, advocacy campaigns, and partnerships with other organizations, we've created a platform for Afghan women to tell our stories and demand our rights. We reach more than 100 thousand people online and thousands more offline and have published the work of more than 140 writers in Afghanistan and around the world. In 2016, We launched the Daughters of Rabia Scholarship to support a new Afghan woman's higher education every year. In 2021, we supported 208 women writers, activists, journalists, and academics who were fleeing or hiding from the Taliban so their basic needs, such as food and shelter, were met.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Afghan Women's Advocacy Project: In 2021, we supported 208 Afghan women writers, journalists, activists, and academics through direct funding so that their basic needs, such as food and shelter, were met as the Taliban took over Afghanistan and forced many women into hiding or fleeing the country.
$128,403 spentof which $128,403 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $128,403.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Noorjahan Akbar
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2021 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $11.
3 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 95% 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 FREE WOMEN WRITERS’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
FREE WOMEN WRITERS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% 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
95% 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 FREE WOMEN WRITERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 93% · 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
95% of FREE WOMEN WRITERS'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 $2k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 1 state.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
FREE WOMEN WRITERS receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37k to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 18,396 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021
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Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FREE WOMEN WRITERS: 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 FREE WOMEN WRITERS?
- FREE WOMEN WRITERS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $37,399 to it, the largest being AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ($25,367). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FREE WOMEN WRITERS have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $37,399 in grants to FREE WOMEN WRITERS, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREE WOMEN WRITERS?
- AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $25,367 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREE WOMEN WRITERS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2021–2021), 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