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LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,069 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($44,083). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $394k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $92k
- Net assets
- $579k
What League of Women Voters of the City of New York does
Mission
The League of Women Voters of the City of New York, INC ("the League") is a nonpartisan organization whose purpose is to promote informed and active citizen participation in government and its electoral process. It neither supports nor opposes candidates or political parties. Membership is open to all persons who subscribe to its purpose. The League is supported by contributions from public-spirited individuals, businesses, and organizations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, INC. (THE LEAGUE) IS A NONPARTISAN PRO-DEMOCRACY ORGANIZATION WHOSE PURPOSE IS TO PROMOTE INFORMED AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION IN GOVERNMENT AND THE ELECTORAL PROCESS FOR ALL RESIDENTS OF NEW YORK CITY. IT NEITHER SUPPORTS NOR OPPOSES CANDIDATES OR POLITICAL PARTIES. PARTICIPATION IS OPEN TO ALL PERSONS WHO SUBSCRIBE TO ITS PURPOSE.THE FOLLOWING ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE MADE IN FISCAL YEAR 2025 Voter Outreach and Education ProgramIn fiscal year 2025, the Leagues programs continued to focus on its core mission to promote informed and active participation in civic life, primarily through voter outreach and civic education and engagement events. We deployed our Vote Louder, message to combat voter apathy and convince prospective voters that their voice matters. We continued our partnerships across many organizations in our efforts to find new ways to reach prospective voters. In September we held our fifth celebration of Constitution Day and sent dozens of volunteers out to 15 low voter turnout neighborhoods throughout NYC with copies of the Constitution in English, Spanish and Chinese handing out a total of 11,000 booklets.Fiscal year…
$115,152 spent63% of program spendingMembership and Volunteer ManagementAs a membership organization led and run by volunteers with minimal paid staff, recruiting, activating, and engaging with our volunteers and community partners is a vital and ongoing component of our work. Our voter outreach and civic engagement activities are all volunteer run, and we field requests for voter registration events, training, and speakers through our website throughout the year, not just during election season. This fiscal year those events reached over 10,000 New Yorkers. Our student internship program has enabled us to train volunteers and activate on local college campuses during the academic year and offer research opportunities over vacation breaks.
$35,624 spent19% of program spendingCivic EngagementCritical aspects of the League of Women Voters of NYC outreach are the speaker events developed through its Speakers Bureau and Program Committee. In FY 2025, the Speakers Bureau held dozens of civic engagement workshops with community-based organizations throughout NYC both in person and virtually. These presentations seek to help participants create their own voting action plans: from registration to accessing the polls, developing strategies to influence elected officials through lobbying and advocacy; and share ideas with participants for becoming active in their home communities. The Speakers Bureau also collaborates with the Leagues Committee for Criminal Justice Reform to develop the Returning Citizens Project, incorporating information from our Civics 101 presentation, as well as information about the origins of the voting rights movement. The Program Committee organizes a monthly Lunch with the League speaker series, open to the public. Invited guest speakers included elected and appointed officials and experts on topics of interest including Congestion Pricing, NYCs finances, The Evolving Role of Women in Politics, Whats on the Ballot, and the Citys…
$32,227 spent18% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $183,003.
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 2024 to 2025, from $404k to $580k (+44%).
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 13% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
101% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK’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. 2 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.
Board chair
Karol Robinson
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $8k.
3 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK’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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
73% 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 LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2020 88% · 2021 38% · 2022 52% · 2023 77% — 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
25% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK'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
62% of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK'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 $35k that is directly attributable, 92% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $57k 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
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 904 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 904 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
81%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 8 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK?
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK (New York) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $92,069 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($44,083). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $92,069 in grants to LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $44,083 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 11 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