Black Womens Agenda

Analysis

Black Womens Agenda is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2025. Its declared purposes cover civil rights, social action and advocacy, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending September 2020, Black Womens Agenda reported income of $196k and spending of $221k, spending 113% of what it took in. Across the 2 years on record, from September 2019 to September 2020, income fell from $621k to $196k (-68%), an average of -68% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to September 2020, when income dropped by 68%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Black Womens Agenda sits at the 44th percentile: it is larger than about 44% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 53rd percentile, and in the 29th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Butte County Child Abuse Council ($196k), Sumner County Casa Inc ($196k) and Project Rainbow Utah ($196k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending September 2020, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% and program service revenue 0.1% of the total. At year end it held assets of $779k against liabilities of $7,500, net assets of $771k.