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If A Case for Women is our mission, A Fund for Women is our heart.
Established in 2019, A Fund for Women is a Texas-based nonprofit corporation and registered 501(c)(3) charitable organization that provides immediate cash to women in dire situations. Donors to A Fund for Women are eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions in accordance with the Internal Revenue Code.
AS OF JULY 2025, A FUND FOR WOMEN HAS DONATED MORE THAN $50,000 TO WOMEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
Money is sent via Western Union for immediacy. While the majority of funds for this nonprofit have come from A Case for Women, the organization has also accepted contributions from outside sources.
Why A Fund for Women?
Because women are impacted every day by gender inequality, disproportionate poverty rates, pay inequities, sex assault, domestic abuse, and a slew of other obstacles that are sadly still at play in our society. White women are paid $.83 for every $1.00 paid to a man contributing similar work. For women of color, it’s usually less.
Since college, A Case for Women president, Susan Jones Knape, followed the New York Times Communities Fund, originally The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, begun in 1911 by then-editor Adolph Ochs. The Fund has always been an independent Times nonprofit that covers its own administrative costs, so worthy groups or people receive the full amount gifted.
It’s what Susan dreamed of doing one day if she ever had the resources. And it’s exactly how A Fund for Women has operated since 2019. Plus, we quickly learned that overnighting checks meant too many women had to interact with predatory check-cashers charging an extremely high fee, because a shocking percentage of single mothers in the US are unbanked. So, we switched to Western Union.
Today Susan, along with daughters & A Case for Women executives August and Jordan Knape, serve as the board for A Fund for Women.
