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National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty

Fearlessly advance federal, state and local policies to prevent and end homelessness while fiercely defending the rights of all unhoused persons.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$82k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$231kHousing & Shelter$133kSocial Science$38kCommunity Improvement$25kHealth$20kHuman Services$8kFood & Nutrition$6k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $242,708, the rows itemized in this filing. The $250,437 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,729 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
$20,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION FUND FOR JUSTICE AND EDUCATION$81,708
INVISIBLE PEOPLE$55,000
POVERTY & RACE RESEARCH ACTION COUNCIL$37,500
NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$20,000
VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC$20,000
DRVR CONSULTING LLC$12,500
NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER$8,000
TRUE COLORS UNITED$8,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $113k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTER: $8k → 18%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $55k → 14%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $50k → 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.
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$311k · 3 repeat orgs$149k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

$311k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+30%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesSocial ScienceHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AB
    American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education
    2× · 2023–2024 · $181k · revenue -18%
  • INVISIBLE PEOPLE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $105k · revenue +47%
  • DC
    DRVR CONSULTING LLC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $25k

Funded once

  • LA
    LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF EASTERN VIRGINIAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +30%
  • CH
    CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +16%
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
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
3
National Housing and Community Development Law Project

The Organization is a national housing and legal advocacy center. Its mission is to advance housing justice for poor people by: increasing and preserving the supply of decent, affordable housing; improving existing housing conditions,…

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
6
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
7
National Law Center On Homelessness and Poverty

Fearlessly advance federal, state and local policies to prevent and end homelessness while fiercely defending the rights of all unhoused persons.

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8
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
9
Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness

Chicago Coalition to End Homelessness (CCH) builds community power and advances racial equity through organizing, advocacy, legal assistance, and education to prevent and end homelessness because housing is a human right.

Housing & Shelter
10
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
11
Housing Rights Initiative

To help tenants stand up for their legal rights.

Housing & Shelter
12
New Civil Liberties Alliance

Public interest legal activities

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education. 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

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $181,333 · Crime & LegalAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and EducationLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF EASTERN VIRGINIA: $50,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF EASTERN VIRGINIAINVISIBLE PEOPLE: $105,000 · Human ServicesINVISIBLE PEOPLENATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS …DRVR CONSULTING LLC: $25,000 · OtherDRVR CONSUL…National Coalition for the Homeless: $20,000 · OtherNational Co…Poverty and Race Research Action Council: $37,500 · Social SciencePoverty a…VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $20,000 · HealthTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $8,000 · Civil RightsCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $5,919 · Food & Nutrition
Crime & Legal$231,333Human Services$113,000Other$45,000Social Science$37,500Health$20,000Civil Rights$8,000Food & Nutrition$5,919

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 budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $181,333 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINVISIBLE PEOPLE: $105,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF EASTERN VIRGINIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPoverty and Race Research Action Council: $37,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNational Coalition for the Homeless: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS & LEADERS (VOCAL-NY) INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $5,919 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Conrad N Hilton Found…The Robert Wood Johns…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Conrad N Hilton FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 10 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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