Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC
FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,977,055 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($875,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $583k
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $4.0M
- Net assets
- $563k
What Fund for Women's Equality Inc does
Mission
Fund for womens equality, inc. Ffwe is a national organization that promotes legal and lived equality for women in the united states by increasing public understanding of the need for comprehensive, fair and equal treatment of women and girls in the constitution and the need to end sex inequality in all of its forms.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Ffwe educates communities, ngos, students, journalists, public officials, and influencers on womens rights. Since 2014, ffwe has educated a new broad national constituency on the need for constitutional equality throughout the united states. Ffwe provides subject matter expertise in key areas of sex discrimination pay equality, pregnancy discrimination, sexual harassment and violence against women. Ffwe educates the public on current laws, how to reform laws that protect womens rights to achieve constitutional equality. Ffwes diverse board and staff increases awareness through movie screenings of relevant films with diverse speakers for talk backs and public service campaigns with ad agencies.
$1,092,284 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,092,284.
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 2020 to 2021, from $925k to $1.8M (+90%).
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 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Zakiya Thomas
CEO president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $62k → $453k.
13 of 44 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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
FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
37% 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 FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 44% · 2019 57% · 2020 51% · 2021 27% · 2022 18% · 2023 33% — 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
19% of FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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
FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC's funding base is broadening — from 3 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,800 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Era Coalition Inc · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY 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 FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC?
- FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,977,055 to it, the largest being NOVO FOUNDATION ($875,000). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $3,977,055 in grants to FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC?
- NOVO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $875,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FUND FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY INC 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 44 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