Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT
WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,614,720 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($808,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $579k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $602k
What Womens Liberation Front does
Mission
Womens Liberation Fronts mission is to restore, protect and advance the rights of women and girls using legal argument, policy advocacy, and public education.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Wolfs amended complaint in the case of chandler v. Macomber (formerly chandler v. Cdcr), submitted 7 amicus briefs and submitted comments to the federal trade commission
$244,895 spent92% of program spendingPublic education: Womens Liberation Front provides public education on our key policy areas, in the form of webinars, conference calls, press conferences, and in-person events, as well as publicly-available resources on our policies and positions on our website.
$16,245 spent6% of program spendingPolicy advocacy: Womens Liberation Front advocates for the rights of women in girls at the local, state and federal levels working to advance and defend the rights of women and girls. We also provide tools for the public to participate in advocacy.
$4,306 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $265,446.
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 $167k to $694k (+314%).
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 WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% 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
Lucy Byrne
Prior executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $15k → $123k.
6 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 94% 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 WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT’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
WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 93% · 2022 97% · 2023 70% — 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
60% of WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 75% 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
94% of WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $98k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.5M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 979 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 979 civil rights nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
50% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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 WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT: 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 WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT?
- WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,614,720 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($808,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $1,614,720 in grants to WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $808,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WOMENS LIBERATION FRONT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 8 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