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BLACK WOMENS AGENDA

EIN 52-1139558 WASHINGTON, DC

Largest nonprofits in District of Columbia

Revenue 2024
$1,136,571
Expenses 2024
$1,005,177

Program services were 90.0% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
R03
Classification
2000
Street
5335 WISCONSIN AVE NW STE 440

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Other organizations at this address

32 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

This address is a suite or unit (STE 440). Organizations that share one are often clients of the same office-services firm, accountant or registered agent rather than related to each other.

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. (BWA) was founded in 1977 to highlight and address those issues that uniquely impact the lives of Black women and their families. BWA continues to work tirelessly to serve millions of women in the areas of education, health and economic empowerment.

Activities or mission (Part I)

SEE PART III, LINE 1.

  • A disproportionate number of black women are represented within statistics related to poverty, and lack access to economic and educational opportunity. The Black Women's Agenda, Inc. (BWA) is devoted to advancing, securing, and protecting the rights of these women. Constantly, the women of BWA strive to acquire greater understanding and cooperation about issues that affect all women and their families, while searching for new knowledge and new conceptualizations about said problems. Through the establishment of social priorities (an agenda), BWA facilitates discussions that lead to effective policies and meaningful change. Their continuous vigilance on issues affecting Black women worldwide empower women to step up and mitigate the gender gaps that affect women in our society.

    Expenses $904,932 · Revenue $1,136,571

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Gwainevere Catchings Hess

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Kimberly Jeffries Leonard PhD

    VP FOR ADMINISTRATION

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mary E N Clark

    VP FOR PROGRAMS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gladys Gary Vaughn PhD

    VP FOR LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Anna Russell Mora

    RECORDING SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Penny Hartsfield White

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Dawna Michelle Fields

    PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Gina Adams Esq

    SYMPOSIUM CHAIR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Vivian Pickard

    IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Vanita Banks Esq

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Adell Batchelor Walker

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Leigh Adams Slaughter Esq

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roxane Whitter

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Karen Ragland Cole MD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Rosalind Denning

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Delores Kennedy-Williams

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Faith Blackburne Proctor

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Toyce Newton

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Anne S Pruitt-Logan PhD

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Connie S Richardson

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Roslyn L Smith

    MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Margaret Batchelor-White PhD

    EMERITAE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mattie Beckham

    EMERITAE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Wendy Winters PhD

    EMERITAE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Sonjia Young

    EMERITAE

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,136,571
    Expenses
    $1,005,177
    Contributions
    $371,829
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $894,420
    Expenses
    $883,671
    Contributions
    $292,306
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $591,933
    Expenses
    $527,372
    Contributions
    $564,847
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $541,787
    Expenses
    $514,838
    Assets (EOY)
    $639,223
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $519,469
    Expenses
    $515,334
    Assets (EOY)
    $437,074
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $358,202
    Expenses
    $294,685
    Assets (EOY)
    $436,087
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $263,599
    Assets (EOY)
    $347,600

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

  • AARP

    $100,000

    2024 Sponsorship of annual symposium

  • AARP

    $50,000

    2023 Sponsorship of the annual BWA symposium

  • AARP

    $50,000

    2022 Sponsorship of the Annual BWA Symposium

  • 2022 ADVOCACY

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

  • Exemption revoked 15 February 2024, reinstated 15 February 2024.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 1 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.