New York · Nonprofit
LEGAL MOMENTUM
LEGAL MOMENTUM (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,852,676 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($280,312). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Legal Momentum does
Mission
Legal Momentum's mission is to advance gender equality for women under the law.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
National judicial education programensuring fairness in the courts through Legal Momentum's national judicial education program (njep): the award-winning njep is the national source for judicial education on sexual violence. Njep provides training materials, seminars and conferences, and webinars for judges, prosecutors, victims' attorneys and advocates, and other justice system professionals about the ways in which gender bias can undermine fairness in criminal, civil, family, and juvenile law. Njep focuses primarily on sexual assault cases and cases involving the intersection of sexual assault and domestic violence.
$120,351 spent8% of program spendingLegal programs:Legal Momentum's legal department focuses on a number of issues important to advancing gender equality for women, including:workplace equality and economic empowerment: through our women valued initiative, Legal Momentum is implementing strategies to advance gender equality in the workplace and enhance economic security for women, with a focus on the most vulnerable groups, including women of color, women working in low-wage industries, survivors of gender-based violence, and immigrant women. (continued on schedule o)(continued from part iii, line 4b) by developing a know-your-rights guidance on the broad spectrum of workplace rights and related benefits and providing training and outreach to low-income women, the project aims to promote early intervention by educating women about how to actively assert their rights in the workplace and when trying to enter the workforce. The project also raises awareness and engages in legislative and regulatory advocacy for reform at the national, state, and local levels to advance gender equality in the workplace and enhance women's economic security.combatting violence against women: Legal Momentum is working on several projects…
$1,318,324 spent92% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,438,675.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $1.7M to $2.6M (+53%).
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: 2017 13% · 2018 6% · 2019 11% · 2020 23% · 2021 24% · 2022 22% · 2023 12% · 2024 16% · 2025 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 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
Carol A Baldwin Moody
President & CEO
Board chair
Eileen Simon
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $114k → $223k.
14 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 LEGAL MOMENTUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
LEGAL MOMENTUM has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
51% 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 LEGAL MOMENTUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 21% · 2019 31% · 2020 16% · 2021 29% · 2022 29% · 2023 24% — 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
52% of LEGAL MOMENTUM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
LEGAL MOMENTUM draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $882k arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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.
Government funding LEGAL MOMENTUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.0M on record — $1.0M federal, $43k state.
- Department of Justice$1.0M
- NJ$40k
- OK$3k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like LEGAL MOMENTUM
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
70% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 29 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL MOMENTUM: 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 LEGAL MOMENTUM?
- LEGAL MOMENTUM (New York) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,852,676 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($280,312). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL MOMENTUM have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $1,852,676 in grants to LEGAL MOMENTUM, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL MOMENTUM?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $280,312 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL MOMENTUM 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 52 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