Vermont · Nonprofit
Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc
Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,500 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS ($89,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2022
- $41k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $211k
- Net assets
- $67
What Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc does
Mission
Womens Justice Freedom Initiative, Inc. addresses the inequitable systems and policies that disproprtionately impact women, girls and members of the LGBTQ community, including but not limited to incaceration, child welfare, mental health, addiction, violence and reproductive health.
As stated on its FY2021 Form 990.
Program
Re-entry and Public Education initiatives to eliminate the stigma and to provide mutual aid to formerly incarcerated women for housing, food and programs to aid in reintegration.
$101,983 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $101,983.
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 2021 to 2022, from $68k to $67 (−100%).
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.
100% of Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 3 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
Ashley D Messier
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2022 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2022: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $104k → $20k.
1 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 28% 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 Justice & Freedom Initiative 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
Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
90% 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 Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 86% · 2021 69% · 2022 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Vermont, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $60k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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 Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc's revenue fell 68% between 2020 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 913 civil rights nonprofits under $100k, FY2022
Organizations like Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
0%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative 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 Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc?
- Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc (Vermont) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $210,500 to it, the largest being THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS ($89,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $210,500 in grants to Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc?
- THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS is the largest funder on record, with $89,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 FY2022 (financials across 2020–2022), and the filings of 6 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