Maryland · Nonprofit
LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC
LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,142 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES ($101,585). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2026
- $159k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $195k
- Net assets
- $60k
What Legal Resource Center on Violence Against Women Inc does
Mission
The organization provides education, training, and technical assistance to improve legal representation of domestic violence survivors in interstate custody cases. Among other activities, the organization trains attorneys, victim advocates, court personnel, and others on relevant laws, provides telephonic assistance in individual cases, connects survivors with resources, develops tools for practitioners, and maintains a website, www.lrcvaw.org.
As stated on its FY2026 Form 990.
Programs
The organization provided education, training, and technical assistance to improve legal representation of domestic violence survivors by, among other activities: training attorneys, advocates, and other professionals who assist domestic violence survivors; maintaining a website with legal and other information; assisting domestic violence survivors to obtain legal representation in interstate custody and relocation cases; developing and distributing practitioners' tools and other materials; collaborating with national, state, and local organizations to provide training and technical assistance to professionals who work with domestic violence survivors; and maintaining a database of attorneys and legal services providers available to represent domestic violence survivors with interstate custody and relocation cases.
$258,195 spent100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $258,195.
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 2025 to 2026, from $184k to $60k (−67%).
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 73% · 2022 79% · 2023 85% · 2024 91% · 2025 86% · 2026 50%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 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
Deborah Goelman
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2026 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $31k → $5k.
4 of 8 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 LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC’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
LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 83% · 2019 95% · 2020 82% · 2021 74% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — growing more concentrated.
“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
33% of LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% 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 RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $67k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC's revenue fell 51% between 2021 and 2026.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 41 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2026
Government funding LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 7 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN 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 LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC?
- LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC (Maryland) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $195,142 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES ($101,585). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $195,142 in grants to LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC?
- NATIONAL COUNCIL OF JUVENILE & FAMILY COURT JUDGES is the largest funder on record, with $101,585 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 FY2026 (financials across 2021–2026), and the filings of 8 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