Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace

Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP) is a 501(c)(3) left-wing international non-governmental organization that promotes and implements programs, in predominantly Muslim majority countries, of gender equality, tolerance, peace, and development. The WLP seeks to increase woman’s leadership and strengthen the feminist movement.

At-A-Glance

Issue Areas: Foreign Policy
Location: Bethesda, MD View on map
Tax ID: 52-2199581
Most Recent Filing: 2024
Budget (2024): Assets: $1,121,267 Revenue: $1,093,084 Expenses: $1,600,760

Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights, Development and Peace (WLP) is a 501(c)(3) left-wing international non-governmental organization that promotes and implements programs, in predominantly Muslim majority countries, of gender equality, tolerance, peace, and development. The WLP seeks to increase woman’s leadership and strengthen the feminist movement.

Financial Statistics

Total Assets

Total Revenue

Total Expenses

YearTotal AssetsTotal RevenueTotal ExpensesFiling
2024 $1,121,267 $1,093,084 $1,600,760 View
2023 $1,539,791 $1,192,677 $1,564,674 View
2022 $1,897,557 $1,755,437 $1,495,040 View
2021 $1,845,292 $1,469,752 $1,302,767 View
2020 $1,730,417 $1,436,472 $1,668,150 View

Prior year filings: 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011

Revenue Detail

Expenses Detail

Employee Compensation

  • Number of Employees: 12

Highest Earning Employees

EmployeeTitleTotal Compensation
Mahnaz AfkhamiPRES & CEO (END 9/23); ADVISORY ROLE$132,179
Allison HorowskiCO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BEG 2/24)$94,317
Laila AustinCO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (BEG 2/24)$87,083
Azza KaramINTERIM PRES & CEO (10/23 – 1/24)$34,700

Grant Activity

All-time grants received statistics from Candid dataset:

  • Total Grant Value: $7,927,379
  • Number of Grants: 104
  • Number of Funders: 20

Selection of highest value grants received from the last seven years:

AmountYearFunderSubject
$200,0002022 National Endowment for DemocracyEDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, & CULTURE
$200,0002021 National Endowment for DemocracyDEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE & POLITICAL PARTIES
$150,0002023 National Endowment for DemocracyEDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, & CULTURE
$100,0002023 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$75,0002024 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$70,0002022 Silicon Valley Community FoundationCivil Participation
$68,0002020 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$58,0002021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$50,0002023 Channel FoundationThree year general operating grant to WLP in support of their ongoing work promoting women’s leadership, civic engagement, and human rights through a partnership of 20 autonomous women’s rights organizations located throughout the Global South.
$50,0002022 Channel FoundationThree year general operating grant to WLP in support of their ongoing work promoting women’s leadership, civic engagement, and human rights through a partnership of 20 autonomous women’s rights organizations located throughout the Global South.
$50,0002021 Channel FoundationTo provide general operating support for WLP’S work promoting women’s leadership, civic engagement, and human rights through a partnership of 20 autonomous women’s rights organizations located throughout the Global South.
$50,0002020 National Endowment for DemocracyEDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, & CULTURE
$30,0002021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$30,0002020 Channel FoundationTo continue supporting WLP’S work training and capacity building with refugee and internally displaced women. In addition, funds can support the ongoing implementation of several of WLP’S multi-year research and knowledge based, grassroots-driven, transnational advocacy campaigns to advance women’s human rights including their global campaign to reform discriminatory Family Laws and curb the gender-based violence which is condoned and reproduced by these laws.
$20,0002021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$15,0002024 Charlottesville Area Community FoundationGENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT
$15,0002023 Charlottesville Area Community FoundationGENERAL PURPOSES
$15,0002022 Charlottesville Area Community FoundationGENERAL PURPOSES
$15,0002021 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$15,0002021 Charlottesville Area Community FoundationGENERAL PURPOSES
$10,0002023 Thomas & Carolyn Witt Foundation IncUNRESTRICTED CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
$10,0002020 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
$5,0002020 Thomas & Carolyn Witt Foundation IncUNRESTRICTED CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTION
$1102022 Amazonsmile FoundationGENERAL SUPPORT

All-time grants given statistics from Candid dataset:

  • Total Grant Value: $1,535,330
  • Number of Grants: 48
  • Number of Recipients: 18

Selection of highest value grants given from the last seven years:

AmountYearFunderSubject
$115,7732023 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$69,0982023 Multiple RUSSIA AND NEIGHBORING STATES RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$60,0002023 Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$55,0002021 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$52,0002024 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA – ALGERIA, BAHRAIN, DJIBOUTI, EGYPT, RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$51,4352020 Multiple SOUTH AMERICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$50,0002024 Multiple SOUTH AMERICA – ARGENTINA, BOLIVIA, BRAZIL, CHILE, COLUMBIA, ECUADOR, RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$50,0002023 Multiple SOUTH AMERICA RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$50,0002022 Multiple SOUTH AMERICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$50,0002021 Multiple SOUTH AMERICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$40,0002022 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$40,0002021 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$35,5002024 Multiple SOUTH ASIA – AFGHANISTAN, BANGLADESH, BHUTAN, INDIA, MALDIVES, NEPAL, RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$35,5002023 Multiple South Asia RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$35,5002022 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$30,0002022 Multiple Europe RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$25,0002024 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$25,0002024 Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$25,0002022 Multiple MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA RecipientsEmpowerment Program
$20,0002024 Multiple EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC – AUSTRALIA, BRUNEI, BURMA, CAMBODIA, RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$20,0002024 Multiple RUSSIA AND NEIGHBORING STATES – ARMENIA, AZERBIJAN, BELARUS, RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$20,0002024 Multiple RUSSIA AND NEIGHBORING STATES RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$20,0002024 Multiple Sub-Saharan Africa RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$20,0002023 Multiple EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC RecipientsEMPOWERMENT PROGRAM
$20,0002020 Multiple EAST ASIA RecipientsEmpowerment Program