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WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS

WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being KOLAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF BUCKLEY LLP ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$797k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$1.2M
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Women's Bar Association of Illinois does

Mission

To promote and foster, advance and protect the interests and welfare of women lawyers; to encourage a spirit of friendship and mutual helpfulness among its members; to aid in the enactment of legislation for the common good, and in the administration of justice; and to promote and protect the interests and rights of women.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Conduct seminars, sponsor events, issue bi-monthly newsletters, and provide general assistance to members.

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.

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 ($334k) Expenses 100 ($208k) Net assets 100 ($807k)2018 Revenue 104 ($349k) Expenses 125 ($260k) Net assets 111 ($897k)2019 Revenue 95 ($316k) Expenses 114 ($236k) Net assets 121 ($977k)2020 Revenue 54 ($181k) Expenses 107 ($222k) Net assets 116 ($936k)2021 Revenue 84 ($279k) Expenses 110 ($229k) Net assets 122 ($987k)2022 Revenue 101 ($339k) Expenses 105 ($218k) Net assets 135 ($1.1M)2023 Revenue 214 ($717k) Expenses 378 ($787k) Net assets 127 ($1.0M)2024 Revenue 280 ($937k) Expenses 393 ($819k) Net assets 147 ($1.2M)2025 Revenue 238 ($797k) Expenses 405 ($843k) Net assets 150 ($1.2M)
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Revenue (238)Expenses (405)Net assets (150)

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 $1.0M to $1.2M (+15%).

$808k
$897k
$979k
$938k
$991k
$1.1M
$1.0M
$1.2M
$1.2M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$126k
’17
$89k
’18
$80k
’19
−$41k
’20
$51k
’21
$121k
’22
−$71k
’23
$118k
’24
−$46k
’25
3.6
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.

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Listed191919191918171717
Joined·+3+9+6+7+1+5+5+6
No longer listed·39672656
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS’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.

Where its funders are

WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Illinois, across 1 state in all.

DC

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.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS

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In Illinois

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
–Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS: 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 OF ILLINOIS?
WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS (Illinois) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being KOLAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF BUCKLEY LLP ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS.
Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS?
KOLAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF BUCKLEY LLP is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOMEN'S BAR ASSOCIATION OF ILLINOIS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 1 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