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THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC

THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,053,135 to it, the largest being MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($2,400,006). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.5M
Funders on record
23
Grants received
$3.1M
Net assets
$2.1M
16/23 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%
01What it does

What The Women's Law Center of Md Inc does

Mission

Our mission is to ensure the physical safety, economic security, and autonomy of women throughout the state. The women's law center of md works towards this goal by providing direct legal representation, information and referral services, and legislative advocacy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Protection order advocacy & representation project (poarp): poarp represents victims of domestic violence at protection order hearings in baltimore and carroll circuit courts. The project's attorneys represent people who have been abused by an intimate partner (current or past boyfriend / girlfriend, current or ex-spouse) in proceedings to obtain protection orders, enforce protection orders through contempt, and modify existing protection orders. Multi-ethnic domestic violence project (medovi): the center provides advocacy and education to survivors of domestic violence in immigrant communities though medovi. This project provides representation to foreign born victims of domestic violence in vawa self-petitions, vawa battered spouse waivers, interim u-visa applications, as well as in final protection order hearings around the state of maryland. The medovi staff work with foreign born clients who have been abused by an intimate partner. Any person with a language barrier can access the service because of the center's commitment to secure an appropriate language interpreter.collateral legal assistance for survivors project (clas) the clas project provides all the above services of…

    $1,214,783 spent
    70% of program spending
  2. Education: the center's hotline is a free service to people with basic family law questions such as "what are the grounds for divorce? Or "if I leave with the kids, can I still get child support?" the volunteer attorneys screen the clients for income eligibility and collect basic data required by the funding source, maryland legal services corporation. Attorneys experienced in family law staff the hotline. The employment law hotline is a telephone service which will provide you with legal information about your rights in the workplace. The hotline will answer questions about many kinds of workplace problems including discrimination in hiring, firing, promotions or other working conditions; discrimination based on pregnancy; sexual harassment; family or medical leave issues; unpaid wages; contract issues; minimum wage and overtime violations; eligibility for unemployment insurance; or, being punished by the employer for having acted together with other employees to improve working conditions.

    $143,437 spent
    8% of program spending
  3. Judicare project: the judicare project provides professional legal representation in contested child custody and family law cases to low-income litigants in baltimore county. The center screens potential clients for eligibility. Clients accepted into the program are provided an attorney for their case.

    $327,626 spent
    19% of program spending
  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $44,969 spent$19,800 earned by the program
    3% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,730,815.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.1M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($909k)2018 Revenue 105 ($1.1M) Expenses 113 ($1.1M) Net assets 101 ($919k)2019 Revenue 113 ($1.2M) Expenses 123 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($909k)2020 Revenue 119 ($1.3M) Expenses 123 ($1.2M) Net assets 106 ($961k)2021 Revenue 125 ($1.4M) Expenses 113 ($1.1M) Net assets 130 ($1.2M)2022 Revenue 166 ($1.8M) Expenses 140 ($1.4M) Net assets 173 ($1.6M)2023 Revenue 153 ($1.7M) Expenses 160 ($1.6M) Net assets 180 ($1.6M)2024 Revenue 192 ($2.1M) Expenses 197 ($2.0M) Net assets 193 ($1.8M)2025 Revenue 231 ($2.5M) Expenses 215 ($2.2M) Net assets 231 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (231)Expenses (215)Net assets (231)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.7M to $2.2M (+32%).

$1.0M
$1.1M
$950k
$1.1M
$1.3M
$1.6M
$1.7M
$2.2M
$2.6M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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2018
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2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 72% · 2018 79% · 2019 83% · 2020 83% · 2021 84% · 2022 83% · 2023 90% · 2024 89% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$82k
’17
$11k
’18
−$10k
’19
$52k
’20
$219k
’21
$396k
’22
$60k
’23
$118k
’24
$347k
’25
6.3
months of
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

Catherine Curran O'Malley

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed201820181917182018
Joined·+5+5+2+4+5+5+4+3
No longer listed·73437425
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $125k → $544k.

5 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD 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

THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

89% 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 THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC.

79%
largest funder
85%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 56% · 2018 45% · 2019 30% · 2020 25% · 2021 30% · 2022 71% · 2023 91% — 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

40% of THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

95% of THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC's grant income comes from Maryland funders.

IL
NY
VA
MD
NM
NC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Maryland out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $187k 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.1M on record — $600k federal, $5.5M state.

Federal$600k
grants $600kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$600k
State$5.5M
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Top programs
  • Grant$5.5M

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 12%Fundraising 8%

Governance

15
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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 1 state

MD

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC?
THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC (Maryland) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,053,135 to it, the largest being MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($2,400,006). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC have?
IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $3,053,135 in grants to THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC?
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,400,006 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 23 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