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National Health Law Program Inc

See schedule o.the national health law program protects and advances the health care rights and related civil rights of low-income individuals, families, and underserved communities.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
22
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$4.2MHealth$3.0MCivil Rights$470kHuman Services$420kEducation$343kPublic Benefit$199k
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $499k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $664k
$45,000
Median grant
22
States reached
$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER$143,000
LEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS$73,000
LEGAL COUNCIL FOR HEALTH JUSTICE (LCHJ)$73,000
SOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER$73,000
LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI (LSEM)$63,000
ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY$63,000
FLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT (FHJP)$63,000
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA$63,000
WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE$50,000
MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE$48,500
DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT (DRC)$45,000
COLORADO CENTER OF LAW & POLICY (CCLP)$45,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC (CLASI)$45,000
INDIANA JUSTICE PROJECT (IJP)$45,000
NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW & POVERTY$40,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $640k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $6k → 10%FAMILY VOICES OF CALIFORNIA: $3k → 10%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER (NCJC): $248k → 8%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $242k → 8%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $44k → 14%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER (NCJC): $37k → 8%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $36k → 14%THE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $25k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.0M · 31 repeat orgs$655k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

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Total granted

$8.0M
$464k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $191k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthEducationPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TJ
    TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $651k · revenue +126%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $539k · revenue +41%
  • NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER
    3× · 2019–2021 · $527k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SC
    SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW
    one grant, 2019 · $55k · revenue -23%
  • OL
    OREGON LAW CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • BO
    BOARD OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
    one grant, 2023 · $45k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
2
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
3
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

Legal aid's mission is to 'make justice real' - in individual and systemic ways - for persons living in poverty in the district of columbia. in particular, legal aid provides civil legal assistance to individuals, families, and communities…

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4
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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5
South Carolina Legal Services

South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.

Crime & Legal
6
Legal Aid Services of Oregon

The primary purpose of legal aid services of oregon shall be to achieve justice for the low-income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
7
Civil Liberties Defense Center

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.

Civil Rights
8
Disability Law Center of Virginia

Dlcv's mission is to advance independence, choice and self-determination; protect legal, human, and civil rights; and eliminate abuse, neglect and discrimination of people with disabilities through zealous and uncompromising legal advocacy…

Human Services
9
Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Inc

To protect, through litigation and legal representation, the civil rights of persons who have historically been subject to discrimination and poverty. the committee provides pro bono services by mobilizing the resources of volunteer…

Philanthropy
10
Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.

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Texas Legal Services Center Inc

Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…

Crime & Legal
12
Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty; the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 61 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
57/57
Grantees still filing
40/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $651,400 · Crime & LegalTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INCLEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS: $538,600 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF ARKANSASLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $480,600 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INCCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $345,140 · Crime & LegalCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy IncWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $250,000 · Crime & LegalWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICEMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $213,500 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $200,000 · Crime & LegalDISABILITY LAW CENTER: $200,000 · Crime & LegalINDIANA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $195,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $190,875 · Crime & LegalATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $178,600 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $178,600 · Crime & Legal+15 more: $708,300 · Crime & Legal+15 moreLegal Council for Health Justice: $425,600 · OtherLegal Council for He…DISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $350,000 · OtherDISABILITY RIGHTS NO…THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS: $280,000 · OtherTHE LEGAL AID SOCIET…Genesee County Legal Aid Society DBA Center for Civil Justice: $230,000 · OtherGenesee County Legal…NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $153,000 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL …+9 more: $145,000 · Other+9 moreSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $704,899 · Civil RightsSOUTH CAROLI…DISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC: $90,000 · Civil RightsDISABILITY R…CIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER: $48,000 · Civil Rights+5 more: $96,000 · Civil Rights+5 moreNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $527,498 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $105,000 · Human Services+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesFLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $503,214 · HealthBIRTH IN COLOR RVA FOUNDATION: $18,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $325,737 · EducationPONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO: $40,000 · EducationNew York University: $16,831 · EducationCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $198,776 · Public BenefitTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitRACE FORWARD: $30,000 · Community Improvement
Crime & Legal$4,330,615Other$1,583,600Civil Rights$938,899Human Services$640,498Health$531,214Education$382,568Public Benefit$228,776Community Improvement$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH CAROLINA APPLESEED LEGAL JUSTICE CENTER: $704,899 over 5y, 19% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC: $651,400 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetLEGAL AID OF ARKANSAS: $538,600 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $527,498 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $503,214 over 6y, 21% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $480,600 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetLegal Council for Health Justice: $425,600 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS NORTH CAROLINA: $350,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $345,140 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $325,737 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF COLUMBUS: $280,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $250,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetGenesee County Legal Aid Society DBA Center for Civil Justice: $230,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $213,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $200,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDISABILITY LAW CENTER: $200,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $198,776 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINDIANA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $195,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $190,875 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $178,600 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $178,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC: $153,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMOUNTAIN STATE JUSTICE INC: $120,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE UNITED STATES: $105,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS CONNECTICUT INC: $90,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $90,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIndiana Legal Services Inc: $84,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC: $55,300 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON LAW CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCIVIL RIGHTS EDUCATION AND ENFORCEMENT CENTER: $48,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMENT ADVANCEMENT PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetDisability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRACE FORWARD: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE IN AGING: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRTH IN COLOR RVA FOUNDATION: $18,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $18,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNew York University: $16,831 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL VOICE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMississippi Center For Legal Services Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERTHRIVE ILLINOIS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Equal Justice WorksLegal Services Corpor…MAZON A Jewish Respon…Hopewell FundCommunity Catalyst IncThe Skadden FoundationShriver Center on Pov…Center for Law and So…National Immigration …Georgetown UniversityNational Legal Aid an…The Impact Fund
Equal Justice WorksDC45.8× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · Legal Services Corporation · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Hopewell Fund · Community Catalyst Inc · The Skadden Foundation · Shriver Center on Poverty Law · Center for Law and Social Policy · National Immigration Law Center · Georgetown University · National Legal Aid and Defender Association · The Impact Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization National Health Law Program Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Health Law Program Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Disability Rights Connecticut Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Family Voices: 39% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Society Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Oregon Law Center: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to National Health Law Program Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 61 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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