Virginia · Nonprofit
Women's Bar Association Foundation
Women's Bar Association Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,355 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($15,855). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $309k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $19k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Women's Bar Association Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the Foundation is to provide grants to non-profit organizations that serve the legal and related needs of women and girls in the DC metropolitan area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The WBA Foundation leverages the generosity of lawyers and friends to support nonprofits that serve the legal and related needs of women or girls in the DC Metropolitan community. Funds are raised through direct donations and events, including an Annual Dinner co-sponsored with the Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia
$152,324 spent$159,361 earned by the program51% of program spendingThe WBA Foundation holds events such as the Wine Tasting & Silent Auction, to raise funds for the grant program. The Foundation also participates in online fundraising campaigns,including DoMore24 and Giving Tuesday. A traditional year-end appeal campaign is also conducted.
$30,524 spent$76,124 earned by the program10% of program spendingEach spring, the grantees for that year are recognized and awarded their checks at the Grant Awards Ceremony. Grantees and Foundation leaders are interviewed at this event to produce a grantee video highlighting the grantees and the need for support. Each grant request is evaluated on its own merits and in comparison to the other projects being funded, and other grant requests being considered, by the WBAF in that year. In addition, the WBAF founders fellowship supports area law students to work with local legal services providers on projects to benefit women and girls in our community.
$114,871 spentof which $82,497 as grants$15,697 earned by the program39% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $297,719.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+19%).
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.
8% of Women's Bar Association Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $5k → $4k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 Women's Bar Association Foundation’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 2 of 3 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
Women's Bar Association Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
82% 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 Women's Bar Association Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 100% · 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
82% of Women's Bar Association Foundation's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
Women's Bar Association Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Women's Bar Association Foundation
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Women's Bar Association of DC · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Women's Bar Association Foundation: 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 Women's Bar Association Foundation?
- Women's Bar Association Foundation (Virginia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,355 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA ($15,855). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Women's Bar Association Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $19,355 in grants to Women's Bar Association Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Women's Bar Association Foundation?
- UNITED WAY OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA is the largest funder on record, with $15,855 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Women's Bar Association Foundation find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 3 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