Massachusetts · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,856 to it, the largest being MWC FOUNDATION INC #0726315 ($435,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $746k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $683k
What Women's Bar Foundation of Massachusetts does
Mission
The wbf is dedicated to ensuring access to justice for low-income individuals. The wbf creates a community committed to providing free legal counseling and full legal representation to low-income women and their families.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization's major programs are the family law project for domestic abuse survivors, which provides pro bono legal representation to low-income victims of domestic violence in family law related cases; the elder law project, which provides pro bono legal services to low-income elderly women and men; the women's prison and re-entry project, which offers educational seminars and pro bono legal services to incarcerated and post-release women.
$395,099 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $395,099.
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. 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 2023 to 2024, from $512k to $745k (+45%).
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 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Margaret Talmers
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $91k → $160k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS’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
WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
55% 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 FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 41% · 2019 56% · 2020 42% · 2021 39% · 2022 51% · 2023 25% — 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
78% of WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
100% of WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $271k 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
WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Women's Bar Association · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS?
- WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS (Massachusetts) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,233,856 to it, the largest being MWC FOUNDATION INC #0726315 ($435,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,233,856 in grants to WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS?
- MWC FOUNDATION INC #0726315 is the largest funder on record, with $435,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S BAR FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 13 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