Form 990 for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$154,564

Total expenses

$197,550

Contributions and grants received

$71,833

Grants paid

$0

Program service revenue

$0

Investment income

$19,861

Other revenue

$62,870

Total assets, end of year

$945,117

Total liabilities, end of year

$36,485

Net assets or fund balances, end of year

$908,632

Program services expenses (Part IX)

$11,952

Management and general expenses

$185,598

Fundraising expenses

$0

Program service expenses (Part III)

$11,952

Program services were 6.1% 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 · 2024

• COMMITTEES AND FORUMS: THE ASSOCIATIONS 25+ COMMITTEES AND FORUMS PRESENT SUBSTANTIVE PROGRAMMING YEAR-ROUND. TOPICS INCLUDE PRACTICE-AREA FOCUS, PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL SKILL DEVELOPMENT, INDUSTRY UPDATES AFFECTING THE WAY LAW IS PRACTICED AND MORE. THE ASSOCIATION ALSO OFFERS NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEMBERS TO GATHER WITH OTHER PRACTICIONERS IN THE FIELD.

  Expenses $882 · Revenue $5,670

• SHOWCASE AND ANNUAL DINNER EVENTS: SHOWCASE PROGRAMS APPEAL TO THE WIDE AUDIENCE OF WOMEN IN LAW. THESE EVENTS INCLUDE STARS OF THE BAR, PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS PANEL, US SUPREME COURT SWEARING IN AND MORE. THE WOMAN LAWYER OF THE YEAR AWARD IS PRESENTED AT THE ANNUAL DINNER, WHICH IS HELD IN MAY.

  Expenses $11,070 · Revenue $85,458

• EXECUTIVE & JUDICIAL ENDORSEMENTS: THE WBAS PRINCIPAL GOAL IN ENDORSING CANDIDATES FOR JUDGESHIPS IS TO ENSURE THE APPOINTMENT OF QUALIFIED JUDGES TO BOTH LOCAL AND FEDERAL COURTS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. CONSISTENT WITH THAT GOAL, WE ALSO SEEK TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF WOMEN OCCUPYING JUDGESHIPS IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND FEDERAL COURTS. WE ENDORSE CANDIDATES WHO HAVE DEMONSTRATED A COMMITMENT TO EQUALITY OF ALL LITIGANTS BEFORE THE COURTS AND WHO HAVE BEEN RESPONSIVE TO WOMENS NEEDS AND CONCERNS.

• ADVOCACY: THE WBA SEEKS TO ACTIVELY SUPPORT ISSUES OF SPECIAL INTEREST TO WOMEN, AND FREQUENTLY USES ITS VOICE AS ONE OF THE OLDEST AND LARGEST VOLUNTARY BAR ASSOCIATIONS IN METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON, DC TO ADVOCATE ON BEHALF OF THEM. THIS INCLUDES RELEASING ISSUE STATEMENTS, CURATING THE DISCUSSING RACISM & BEING ANTI-RACIST TOOLKIT, SIGNING ON TO LETTERS OF SUPPORT, AMICUS BRIEF DEVELOPMENT AND SIGNING ON TO AMICUS BRIEFS DRAFTED BY OTHER ORGANIZATIONS.

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

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.

• Women's Bar Association Foundation

  501(c)(3) · Grant Making · DC

Provenance

Return type

form_990

Tax year

2024

Filed

24 October 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202503199349302320

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