Delaware · Nonprofit
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW (Delaware) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,555,093 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $99k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $2.6M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Institute for African Women in Law does
Mission
Enhancing the capacity of women in law for social change and development.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
A: research and resources database: 1: released following flagship reports; unveiling subalternity? Women and the legal professions in africa: high- level meeting global judicial integrity network, gender and judging in pluralistic societies international courts, women judges gender parity in u.n. Human rights bodies: a regional consultative meeting mentoring and career development. 2: series and archival projects: launched number series and archival projects: pioneer african women in law, women chief justices, international court judges, the amandla women in law speaker series, 3: blogs: after the start of the pandemic we started to look at its intersectional implications through our women, justice, and law: covid-19 blog series. Published 55 blogs. B: training: webinars: organized a 3-day webinar series in collaboration with deutsche gesellschaft fur international zusammenarbeit (giz) gmbh. The theme was 'unveiling subalternity: women and the legal professions across africa'. Another webinar was held in october on mentorship and career growth opportunities in law. Total attendees: over 1000. Celebration: continued to celebrate and support african women in law through our…
$147,292 spent$79,804 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $147,292.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $400k to $1.6M (+306%).
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.
81% of INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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.
Board chair
Elizabeth Adu
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $35 → $315k.
2 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW’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
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 95% · 2022 97% · 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
59% of INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW'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 $1.1M that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Delaware, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M 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
INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW is better cushioned than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW: 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 INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW?
- INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW (Delaware) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,555,093 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($1,500,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $2,555,093 in grants to INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like INSTITUTE FOR AFRICAN WOMEN IN LAW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 5 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