DIRECT WOMEN

As filed

Subsection

03

Classification

1200

Street

106 W CALENDAR AVENUE SUITE 93

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).

Mission and programs · 2025

• IN 2025, DIRECT WOMEN PRODUCED A SERIES OF WEBINARS FOR WOMEN LAWYERS TO INSPIRE AN INTEREST IN CORPORATE BOARD SERVICE. THE ORGANIZATION HELD THE BOARD INSTITUTE, ITS FLAGSHIP PROGRAM, IN OCTOBER. EACH YEAR, DIRECTWOMEN IDENTIFIES A SMALL GROUP OF LEADING WOMEN LAWYERS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE BOARD INSTITUTE BASED ON AN ASSESSMENT OF THEIR ABILITY TO PROVIDE THE EXPERIENCE, INDEPENDENCE, AND BUSINESS JUDGMENT REQUIRED FOR BOARD EFFECTIVENESS. THE BOARD INSTITUTE PROVIDES WORKING SESSIONS DESIGNED TO HELP PARTICIPANTS DEVELOP THEIR VALUE PROPOSITION AND PERSONAL BOARD-SEARCH STRATEGIES. THE ORGANIZATION ALSO RAN NETWORKING EVENTS FOR THE BOARD INSTITUTE ALUMNAE TO ASSIST THEM WITH THEIR BOARD SEARCH. TWELVE DIRECTWOMEN BOARD INSTITUTE ALUMNAE WERE ELECTED TO THIRTEEN BOARD SEATS IN 2025. SINCE ITS INCEPTION, DIRECTWOMEN ALUMNAE HAVE SERVED ON 223 CORPORATE BOARDS. DIRECT WOMEN ALSO HOSTED THE 2025 SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR BOARD EXCELLENCE AWARD LUNCHEON TO RAISE AWARENESS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF BOARD DIVERSITY AND TO SHOWCASE SUCCESSFUL WOMEN LAWYER-DIRECTORS. OVER 400 CEOS, CORPORATE DIRECTORS, LAW FIRM LEADERS, AND OTHER SUPPORTERS ATTENDED THE EVENT. DIRECTWOMEN HOSTED ITS THIRD INTERNATIONAL BOARDS PROGRAM IN LONDON, ENGLAND IN JUNE. 120 PARTICIPANTS ATTENDED THE EVENT, WHICH FEATURED WOMEN LAWYER DIRECTORS WHO SERVE ON INTERNATIONAL BOARDS AND SEARCH FIRM EXECUTIVES WHO PLACE DIRECTORS ON BOARDS.

  Expenses $720,233 · Revenue $278,556

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $1,274,351

  Expenses

  $1,063,645

  Contributions

  $901,132

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $1,335,162

  Expenses

  $1,051,917

  Contributions

  $986,093

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2023

  Revenue

  $1,067,160

  Expenses

  $862,973

  Contributions

  $757,687

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $1,073,014

  Expenses

  $667,138

  Contributions

  $908,155

  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

• 2021 · 990

  Revenue

  $715,397

  Expenses

  $426,294

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,697,421

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $1,740,142

  Expenses

  $363,594

  Assets (EOY)

  $1,544,894

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2019

Tax period

1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019

Principal officer

Denise F Keane

Mailing address

333 W Wacker Dr Ste 450Chicago IL 60606

Website

www.directwomen.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

• FINRA REGULATION INC

  $25,000

  2022 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $21,500

  2022 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• ASHURST PERKINS COIE FOUNDATION

  $13,000

  2024 · SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR BOARD EXCELLENCE AWARDS LUNCHEON

• UNITED WAY MIAMI INC

  $13,000

  2024 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $11,000

  2022 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $11,000

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND

  $10,000

  2023 · IN FURTHERANCE OF GRANTEE'S TAX-EXEMPT PURPOSE

• SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $10,000

  2024 · Civic Participation

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $9,000

  2023 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

• THE AYCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION

  $9,000

  2024 · COMMUNITY & HUMAN SERVICES

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

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