Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT
WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,164,864 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($4,326,405). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 71
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $2.2M
What Women's Law Project does
Mission
Women's Law Project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. To this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. The core values of Women's Law Project are a belief in the right of all women to bodily integrity and personal autonomy; dedication to listening to women and being guided by their experiences; and commitment to fairness, equality, and justice.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Women's Law Project (wlp), a pennsylvania legal advocacy organization founded in 1974, leverages the power of the law to eliminate gender bias and discrimination. Wlp envisions a society in which justice and equality of opportunity are not determined by sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, race, economic status, or intersecting identities. Wlp believes that every person has the right to bodily autonomy, health, economic security, and freedom from violence, and that personal decisions about sexuality and procreation must be protected by the government instead of intruded upon. A keystone of wlp's work is our commitment to work collaboratively with other organizations, both to ensure that all perspectives are brought to bear on solutions and to streamline advocacy efforts, thus rendering them more effective and meaningful. Wlp has been at the forefront of numerous legal and policy initiatives involving reproductive health care, here in pennsylvania and nationwide, for over five decades. We challenge laws and policies designed to limit or deny access to abortion and contraception. We recently achieved a landmark ruling before the pennsylvania supreme…
$1,461,776 spent$21,409 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,461,776.
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 2022 to 2023, from $967k to $2.0M (+110%).
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.
98% of WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Chief executive
Amal Bass Esq
Co-exec. Dir
Board chair
Greer Donley Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 35 funders, grant income rose $894k → $1.6M.
19 of 71 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 30% 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 LAW PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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 LAW PROJECT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 61%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
42% 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 LAW PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 49% · 2019 41% · 2020 40% · 2021 35% · 2022 29% · 2023 33% — 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
48% of WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 LAW PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 479 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 479 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $9k on record.
- FEDERAL$9k
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.
Organizations like WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT: 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 LAW PROJECT?
- WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 71 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,164,864 to it, the largest being THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION ($4,326,405). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 71 organizations giving $10,164,864 in grants to WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT?
- THE SUSAN THOMPSON BUFFETT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $4,326,405 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMEN'S LAW PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 71 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing