Women’s March Foundation
Founded: 1987
Founder: Eleanor Smeal, Peg Yorkin, Toni Carabillo, Judith Meulli, and Kathy Spillar
Website: www.feminist.org
Location:
1600 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 801
Arlington, VA 22209
Summary:
- Advocates for more female representation in state legislatures and the Congress
- Publisher of Ms. Magazine
- Endorses taxpayer-funded abortion-on-demand
- Favors gender preferences for women in hiring practices
Funding:
Among the earliest financial contributors to FMF was Peg Yorkin (wife of film producer Bud Yorkin), who gave the organization $10 million as “seed money” in 1991. Jay Leno and his wife Mavis Leno have given six-figure gifts. Mavis Leno sits on the FMF Board and is Chairman of the Feminist Majority’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan. Other major contributors to FMF include the Compton Foundation, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Educational Foundation of America, the Ford Foundation, the Heinz Family Foundation, the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, the Ms. Foundation for Women, George Soros’ Open Society Institute, the Scherman Foundation, and the Turner Foundation. (discoverthenetworks.org)
FMF’s donors in recent years include the Wallace Global Fund,
2008 – 2017 federal grants: N/A
Key People:
FMF Board of Directors
Eleanor Smeal, President
Peg Yorkin, Chair of the Board
Katherine Spillar, Executive Director and Secretary
Rae Wyman, Treasurer
Bonnie Thornton Dill, Board Member
Rita Magidson Haft, Board Member
Dolores Huerta, Board Member
Carol Leif, Board Member
Mavis Leno, Chair, Campaign for Afghan Women
Dee Martin, Board Member
Ana Reyes, Partner
Lorraine Sheinberg, Chair, Policy, and Strategic Communications
