Form 990 for tax year 2022

Totals

Total revenue

$28,362,796

Total expenses

$33,049,164

Contributions and grants received

$28,745,135

Grants paid

$3,010,052

Program service revenue

$280,881

Investment income

$495,414

Other revenue

-$1,158,634

Total assets, end of year

$112,057,768

Total liabilities, end of year

$25,444,630

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$86,613,138

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$26,984,318

Management and general expenses

$3,394,819

Fundraising expenses

$2,670,027

Program service expenses (Part III)

$26,984,318

Program services were 81.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Mission and programs · 2022

• WOMEN'S LEGAL RIGHTSTransforming the Federal Judiciary through Promoting Judicial Integrity and Judicial Nominations- Worked with partners to call for stronger ethical standards for the Supreme Court and entire federal judiciary to restore public trust in the courts, engaging media and creating original content.(To be continued on Sch O.)- Continued pushing President Biden to fulfill his commitment to appointing judges committed to equal justice and further diversify the federal bench. During the first three years of the Biden administration, the Senate has confirmed 166 lifetime judges-108 were women, 70 were women of color, and 80 were former public defenders and/or civil rights lawyers. These judges will not only bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the judicial system, but also bring us another step closer to a judiciary that looks more like our country.- In Spring 2023, led the gender justice community's strategy to urge the Senate to confirm renowned reproductive rights litigator Julie Rikelman to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Rikelman notably defended our fundamental right to abortion before the Supreme Court in the Dobbs case. In May 2023, we co-led a sign-on letter with nearly 80 civil rights organizations in support of Rikelman's nomination. Rikelman was ultimately confirmed on June 20, 2023. - In May 2023, we led a sign-on letter with nearly 50 other gender justice organizations to urge the Senate to swiftly confirm civil rights champion Nancy Abudu to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Abudu is a distinguished civil rights attorney with a demonstrated commitment to protecting the rights of women, people of color, and LGBTQI+ people and safeguarding democracy.- Provided information related to the need for and benefits of a judiciary that is more reflective of the country, and in particular the need for jurists with records demonstrating commitments to gender equity, integrity, and fair-mindedness who reflect the gender, racial/ethnic, and sexual orientation diversity within our country and understand the impact of their decisions on the rights of women, people of color, LGBTQI+ people, and other people marginalized in our society.

  Expenses $7,081,633 · Grants $338,581 · Revenue $154,653

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $6,304,412 · Grants $441,489 · Revenue $11,950

• Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

  Expenses $5,553,338 · Grants $29,859 · Revenue $86,778

• TIME'S UP LEGAL DEFENSE FUND AND LEGAL NETWORK FOR GENDER EQUITYAssisting Individuals Who Experience Sex Discrimination at Work, School, or When Seeking Health Care- Through the Legal Network for Gender Equity and the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund, between the launch of the Fund through May 2023, we connected 4,823 individuals facing situations involving workplace sex harassment and/or related retaliation with legal help. About 40 percent of those individuals identify as people of color and about 80 percent identify as low-income. In addition, during this same time period, the Fund provided funding and connections to public relations professionals in 134 matters involving workplace sex harassment and/or related retaliation.- Here are two examples of cases that were supported, in part, by the TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund:- During one of Laura Zuniga's first cross-country trucking assignments, she was sexually assaulted by her male co-driver-and forced to keep driving. In March 2023, Laura finally won a financial settlement from the trucking company but has not ceased in her tireless advocacy to protect fellow women drivers.- Over three years ago, a legion of women survivors-former cheerleaders and marketing employees of the Washington Commanders-exposed the daily sexual harassment and misogyny perpetrated under Dan Snyder's leadership. The TIME'S UP Legal Defense Fund helped support Lisa Banks and Debra Katz, two lawyers from our Legal Network for Gender Equity, in their efforts to drive attention to this culture of abuse and pursue justice for these women.- Between July 2022 and June 2023, hosted five webinars for attorneys in the Legal Network for Gender Equity on topics ranging from trauma-informed lawyering to the power of collective action to address workplace sex discrimination.

  Expenses $2,525,361 · Grants $1,408,031

• INCOME SECURITY AND CHILD CARE- Throughout 2023, spearheaded advocacy efforts around the looming child care "funding cliff" in September 2023-when billions of dollars of emergency child care funding from the pandemic expired. - Began the preliminary work of pushing for an investment of at least $16 billion in the child care sector to stave off shrinking child care spots, staffing shortages, and rising prices that will disrupt both families and our economy writ large.- Bolstered public education about the importance of this $16 billion investment with blogs and social content.- Worked to secure a historic increase in appropriations for the Child Care and Development Block Grant in 2022.- Led gender justice work to protect investments supporting women and families in the debt ceiling debate.- After nearly a decade of organizing, Vermont passed a historic bill authorizing $125 million in annual investment for child care in May 2023-a model of victory for the rest of our nation. NWLC was a key source of technical assistance to partners in Vermont, helping advocates design an equitable and affordable system that will work for all Vermont young children and their families.- Built and ultimately launched a groundbreaking storytellers initiative-Sparking Change-that centers the voices and experiences of women or nonbinary people of color closest to the intersecting issues of income insecurity and child caregiving. Storytellers from New Mexico and South Carolina are sharing their expertise with the greater public and decision-makers so that policies and initiatives are grounded in lived experience and needs.- On Child Care Worker Appreciation Day, storyteller Merline A. Gallegos wrote an article to illustrate what it really means to be a child care worker in this country-calling attention to the long hours, the poverty wages, the lack of government support, and how "my salary does not increase as my skills and experience do." - In August 2022, we released a groundbreaking report about the roots of discriminatory housing policy. Our housing system has turned discrimination, exclusion, and exploitation into assets for the wealthy. This paper underscores that housing justice is gender justice and outlines solutions to advance housing as a human right, not a commodity.- In Spring 2023, we led a public messaging campaign around the CHIPS Act-which requires any semiconductor manufacturer requesting over $150 million in direct funding from the Commerce Department under the CHIPS Act to submit plans for providing affordable, accessible, reliable, and high-quality child care for the workers who build and facilitate their plants. Published a public statement, op-ed, and gave press interviews, explaining how this requirement will help shape a diverse and skilled workforce that includes more women and people of color. - In May 2023, we launched Who Cares, a new messaging campaign to shift our culture's understanding of child care as a private responsibility to recognition that it is a public good-attempting to compel public investments into this underfunded, under-resourced sector.- After President Biden signed over 50 executive actions to strengthen our care system in April 2023, we broke down what the tangible impact those actions will have on real families through an informative, conversational blog.- In November 2022, published a fact sheet on how refundable tax credit expansions will help build long-term economic prosperity for women and families.- Published communication materials in support of maintaining and improving the Child Tax Credit, which can help working families offset the incredibly high cost of child care. (The price of child care exceeds in?state tuition at a public four?year university in many states). - Analyzing the U.S. Census Bureau Household Pulse Survey, researched and released a new fact sheet in June 2023 on the uneven economic recovery from COVID-19 for women of color, disabled women, and LGBT adults who still struggle to afford basic necessities.- In June 2023, we released a groundbreaking report assessing the status of state child care assistance policies-where the gaps are, where progress is being made, and where further progress is needed. This analysis of policies as of February 2022 shows that the substantial federal relief funding that was provided during the pandemic allowed states to make notable progress in closing the persistent gaps in our child care assistance system.

  Expenses $5,519,574 · Grants $792,092 · Revenue $27,500

• EDUCATIONAddressing Educational Barriers Faced by Women, Girls, and LGBTQI+ Individuals- Led efforts to restore and strengthen Title IX's protections against sex discrimination and harassment in schools. In 2020, the Trump administration issued Title IX rules that decimated protections against sexual assault and other forms of sex-based harassment in schools and took other steps to roll back protections for LGBTQI+ students. The Biden administration proposed a new Title IX rule in June 2022-which would restore those civil rights protections for student survivors of sexual assault and harassment, while strengthening protections for LGBTQI+ students and pregnant and parenting students-but it is still not finalized. - In July and August 2022, provided analysis and comments on the Biden administration's proposed Title IX rule, while leading efforts to engage a wide range of organizations and the public in support of strengthened Title IX protections, through the creation of explainers, template comments, public petitions, and blogs, lifting up particular aspects of the proposed rules, such as protections for pregnant and parenting students. - In April 2023, NWLC led a coalition letter urging that a final rule be promulgated, and in June 2023, on the 51st anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, NWLC led 75 gender justice, survivor advocacy, and civil rights organizations in writing to express our deep disappointment that the Biden administration had recently announced that the release of the Department of Education's Title IX final rule was delayed from May 2023 to October 2023. - Connected student survivors and student leaders to press outlets so they could share their stories about the devastating impact of Trump's Title IX rules on college campuses across our country. - Bolstered public education around the importance of overturning Trump's Title IX rules, publishing blogs and social content, and regularly speaking to the press about the need for strong Title IX protections.- Pushed for Title IX rules to protect trans athletes and to ensure that all women and girls, including trans women and girls, have a chance to play and to experience the belonging and lessons in leadership that come from participating in sports: - When the Biden administration's June 2022 proposed Title IX rule did not include protections for trans athletes, NWLC spoke out, co-leading a letter in August 2022 joined by 49 other women's rights and gender justice organizations calling for the administration to move forward in rulemaking on this issue and highlighting the urgency of action given a barrage of vicious legislative attacks on LGBTQI+ students by state lawmakers across the country, including through recently passed state laws that ban transgender, nonbinary, and intersex students from participating in sports. - When the administration proposed a Title IX trans athlete rule in the spring of 2023, NWLC submitted comments on the Biden administration's latest Title IX rule, expressing our support for a clear Title IX standard that would invalidate the categorical anti-trans sports bans that have been targeting transgender and intersex women and girls in far too many states. - We also shared key recommendations on ways to add clarity for schools and students, who need strong enforcement of Title IX's broad protection against the enforcement of sex stereotypes (because all women and girls lose out when schools try to tell students there is one "right way" to be a girl). - NWLC also led a coalition of LGBTQI+ organizations in creating a joint fact sheet on the rule, engaged members of Congress in support of Title IX protections for trans athletes, and undertook public education on the rule through blog posts and press engagement.- Litigated in the courts to support trans students and LGBTQI+ students: - In August 2022, we joined an amicus brief in support of Michael Grabowski, who reported to his school that his teammates were harassing him because they thought he was gay. In response, the school dismissed him from the track team and canceled his athletics scholarship. A federal district court incorrectly held that Title IX does not prohibit sexual orientation-based harassment. Our brief explains that the district court greatly erred. Its decision ignored the Supreme Court's clear statement in Bostock v. Clayton County that sex discrimination includes sexual orientation-based discrimination, a position also held by the Ninth Circuit and the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice. - In November 2022, we filed an amicus brief in support of A.M., a transgender girl who could be kicked off her elementary school softball team as a result of Indiana's anti-trans sports ban. NWLC's amicus brief discusses the importance of ensuring that all girls can access the well-documented benefits of playing sports, free from discrimination. - In April 2023, we filed an amicus brief in support of a middle-school transgender girl who challenged West Virginia's anti-trans sports ban. (B.P.J. is identified by initials to protect her privacy). We are supporting B.P.J.'s appeal of a negative lower court decision and asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit to uphold existing precedent that Title IX and the U.S. Constitution protect the rights of all LGBTQI+ students to access education free from discrimination. We explained how anti-trans sports bans are deeply linked to sex stereotypes that harm all women and girls.- Other litigation in support of students: - In August 2022, we filed an amicus brief in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina in support of the universities and their holistic race-conscious admissions policies. When the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions on June 29, 2023, we released a statement "in solidarity with the college and university students still to come who will be harmed by this outcome," promising to "fight alongside students and work with policymakers to ensure schools continue to prioritize diversity and find ways to ensure that all students can thrive." - Following an amicus brief led by NWLC in 2021 in support of the women athletes on Michigan State University's varsity swimming and diving team challenging the university's attempt to eliminate the program-in January 2023, the parties in Balow v. Michigan State University reached a settlement agreement that prohibits MSU from cutting any women's team from now until the end of the 2029-30 school year. - In February 2023, we joined another amicus brief in support of Jane Doe, a student survivor at the University of Kentucky. When Jane withdrew from the University's program and sued it for mishandling her sexual assault complaint, the University retaliated against her in its investigation of her complaint, citing her lawsuit. The brief explains the Title IX statute is broad, as it protects all "persons" (not just current students) against sex discrimination in "all the operations" of a school (including in disciplinary proceedings, which are inherently "school-related"). - In April 2023, we joined an amicus brief submitted in support of four disabled students who sued their Georgia school district under Title II of the American with Disabilities Act (ADA). A federal district court held that they could recover neither emotional distress damages nor other compensatory damages that were not based on emotional distress. The amicus brief explains why the Eleventh Circuit must reverse the district court's decision to ensure full enforcement of the ADA and to protect the ability of victims of disability discrimination-and indeed, all forms of discrimination-to seek justice in the courts.- In April 2023, we released an eye-opening brief about how the harms of the pandemic have not been distributed equally-but instead have fallen heavily on girls of color and lesbian and bisexual girls. Girls in high school, on the verge of beginning higher education, entering the workforce, and becoming independent, need public investments that help them thrive and achieve their full potential.- On June 23, 2023, we released and distributed two reports on state laws protecting pregnant and parenting students in secondary schools and making recommendations for best practices in state legislation-one focused on lactation accommodations and one focused on flexible school attendance policies.- In March 2023, we led a letter joined by other state and national women's and girls' rights organizations vehemently opposing the so-called "Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act".- Sponsored "She Deserves Dignity and Joy" in July 2022, an in-person event in Washington, D.C., celebrating Black girls and uplifting a vision of safe and inclusive schools that meet student needs.

As filed on the 2022 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

• New Venture Fund

  $555,554

  Regrant

• Take Creative Control Inc

  $150,000

  Regrant

• Jobs with Justice Education Fund

  $143,210

  Regrant

• Metanoia

  $70,000

  Regrant

• OLE Education Fund

  $70,000

  Regrant

• The Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence

  $50,000

  Regrant

• State Innovation Exchange

  $50,000

  Regrant

• 9To5 National Association of Working Women

  $45,000

  Regrant

• Partnership for Southern Equity

  $30,000

  Regrant

• Women's March Network

  $25,000

  Regrant

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations on this return

Schedule R Part II: tax-exempt organizations related to the filer by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

• National Women's Law Center Action Fund

  501(c)(4) · Advocacy, research & education · DC · controlled entity

  Directly controlled by National Women's Law Center

Taxable family on this return

Schedule R Parts I, III and IV, as filed. These record ownership and control, not shared board members or money moved.

Provenance

Return type

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Tax year

2022

Filed

3 May 2024

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