Minnesota · Nonprofit
GENDER JUSTICE
GENDER JUSTICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,890,625 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,944,256). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 60
- Grants received
- $14M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Gender Justice does
Mission
Gender Justice is a nonprofit legal and policy advocacy organization working to advance gender equity through the law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Gender Justice works to advance gender equity through the law to create a world where everyone can thrive regardless of their gender, gender expression, or sexual orientation. We strive to create that world by dismantling legal, structural, and cultural barriers that contribute to gender inequity. Our organization selects cases in minnesota and north dakota based on their potential either to affect broad populations in similar situations as our clients or to set a powerful legal precedent on particular civil and human rights issues. Our impact litigation has strengthened protections for transgender people, women, and anyone who experiences gender discrimination and violence.Gender Justice also works to advocate for policies that promote gender equity and engages in public education to help people not only know their rights, but also feel empowered and supported by cultural shifts to realize those rights. Our organization takes an intersectional and coalition building approach to accomplish this work. Our unrestrict minnesota program is an example of this and has connected with thousands of minnesotans to educate and engage them about the restrictions around abortion and…
$2,451,984 spent$121,511 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,451,984.
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 $1.9M to $3.7M (+96%).
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 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of GENDER JUSTICE’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 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.
Chief executive
Megan Peterson
Executive director
Board chair
Ann Tobin
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $101k → $2.8M.
20 of 60 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $40k from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest Gender Justice). These are real filings, and they are not money GENDER JUSTICE raised.
From the IRS filings of GENDER JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 60 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
GENDER JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
61% 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 GENDER JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 62% · 2019 39% · 2020 41% · 2021 61% · 2022 23% · 2023 27% — 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
56% of GENDER JUSTICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
53% of GENDER JUSTICE'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 $6.5M that is directly attributable, 81% of it comes from funders outside Minnesota, across 16 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.4M 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
GENDER JUSTICE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like GENDER JUSTICE
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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
- Gender Justice Action · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GENDER JUSTICE: 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 GENDER JUSTICE?
- GENDER JUSTICE (Minnesota) receives grants from 60 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,890,625 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($2,944,256). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GENDER JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 60 organizations giving $13,890,625 in grants to GENDER JUSTICE, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GENDER JUSTICE?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,944,256 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GENDER JUSTICE 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.
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 60 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