About National Women'S Law Center Action Fund
Engage voters and mobilize grassroots power to advance gender justice by advocating for policies that protect reproductive freedom, expand economic security and child care, ensure safe and inclusive schools, support survivors, and defend democratic institutions and diverse leadership.
Focus Areas
Reproductive freedomChild care and care infrastructureEconomic securitySafe and inclusive schoolsSupporting survivorsExpanding democracy / voter guidesVoter engagement and mobilizationJudicial and institutional accountability
Funding Style
unrestricted supportgeneral operating supportflexible/core funding
Topics
About National Women'S Law Center Action Fund
National Women's Law Center Action Fund backs gender-justice organizing with unrestricted general support, and its largest recent gifts went to Mothering Justice Action Fund in Detroit and 9 to 5 Action Fund Inc in Milwaukee. The pattern is clear in the 2025 grants list: the funder is supporting advocacy groups that work on reproductive freedom, economic security, child care, safe and inclusive schools, survivor support, and democratic participation. That mix points to a grantmaker focused on policy change and grassroots mobilization rather than project-specific work. The foundation’s recent awards also show a practical emphasis on organizational capacity. Tides Advocacy in San Francisco, One Apia Nevada in Las Vegas, and Citizen Action of New York in Brooklyn all received general grant support, suggesting flexible funding to groups engaged in public policy and civic action. With annual grants of $325,000 and a national reach, the Action Fund appears to direct relatively concentrated support to a small number of aligned organizations working on related advocacy goals. Leadership is listed under Fatima Goss Graves, and the funder’s stated work centers on engaging voters and mobilizing grassroots power to advance gender justice.
What National Women'S Law Center Action Fund Funds
In reproductive freedom and survivor support, the funder’s publicly listed priorities point to policy advocacy around bodily autonomy and protections for people affected by violence. Its support for safe and inclusive schools sits alongside that work, indicating attention to public systems that shape daily safety and access. Economic security and child care are also explicit focus areas, which ties the foundation to organizing around the costs and infrastructure that affect families’ ability to work and participate fully in civic life. The grants to Mothering Justice Action Fund and 9 to 5 Action Fund Inc fit that policy-and-organizing frame, with both receiving $100,000 in general support. A third strand is democratic participation. The foundation lists expanding democracy, voter guides, and voter engagement and mobilization, as well as judicial and institutional accountability, as part of its agenda, showing a grantmaking approach tied to advocacy and institutional change rather than direct service delivery.
How National Women'S Law Center Action Fund Gives
Typical grant size is tightly clustered: p25 is $50,000, the median is $50,000, and p75 is $100,000. That distribution fits a small portfolio of comparatively large awards. The recent grants supplied here are all from 2025, and every listed award is described as general grant support, which aligns with the funder’s philosophy tags for unrestricted, general operating, and flexible core funding. The available data also suggests a national grantmaker with no funding shown for recipients in its headquarters state of Washington, DC. The top state by grant count is Michigan, and the recent list includes multiple recipients across different states, indicating broad geographic placement within the United States rather than a single local concentration.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$325K
Total Assets
$2.4M
Total Revenue
$2.3M
Total Expenses
$1.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $50K and $100K, with a median of $50K.
25th Percentile
$50K
Median
$50K
75th Percentile
$100K
Geographic Reach
National5 states funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in MI.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
FATIMA GOSS GRAVES
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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