Washington · Nonprofit
A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING
A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,892 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $416k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $294k
- Net assets
- $612k
What A Legacy of Equality Leadership and Organizing does
Mission
LELO strives to empower low-income workers of color, recent immigrants and women workers to assert their rights, improve their working conditions and gain a voice in their workplaces, trade unions and communities, in the U.S. and across the globe.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
King County Relicensing Program: LELO offers free service to assist low-income drivers with license suspended in Third Degree (DWLS3D) and who are interested in recover their driver's license. The program accepts any low income person who has unpaid tickets in King County District Court. The DWLS3D help individuals to navigate the court system, educate them on their rights and advocate for themselves. LELO assisted clients' appeals in both the Washington State and out of the state courts and received very affordable payment outcomes. In 2024, the Relicensing Program enrolled 84 clients and 27 regained their driver's licenses.
$177,268 spentof which $1,429 as grants$111,862 earned by the program40% of program spendingThe Western Sahara Project organized four educational sessions about the realities faced by the population in Western Sahara. Each session focused on explaining, from different perspectives, how Morocco's occupation of Sahrawi territory has affected their human, civil, cultural, and environmental rights. The speakers at these discussions included diplomats, university professors, organizers, and members of our community. Also, the Project produced a digital publication with the latest information on the situation in Western Sahara. Additionally, by social media sent updates on the ongoing struggle of the Sahrawi people.
$77,530 spent$46,561 earned by the program18% of program spendingAPALA: Collaboration with The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO; APALA is the first and only national organization of Asian American and Pacific Islanders (APPI), most of who are union members. APALA works with LELO as a partner to advance workers, immigrant and civil rights. APALA and LELO have played a unique role addressing the work place issues of their 660,000 union members and serving as a bridge between organized labor and the APPI community. The collaboration between APALA and LELO is dedicated to promoting political education, empowerment and leadership of AAPIs within labor movement and APA community. LELO assisted APALA in organizing six educational sessions by Zoom and a National Conference in Seattle.
$75,500 spent$89,740 earned by the program17% of program spendingGeneral Programs, City Food Equity, City Pre-filing, History Project, Mexico Solidarity, Bantayog, and other programs: LELO's Food Equity Program (FEP) has been successfully planned, funded, and implemented a grassroots effort to provide our multi-racial community with organic vegetables and fruits, methods to prepare healthy foods, knowledge of how to take care of our health and education on why food sovereignty is as an alternative to the food system that we currently have. The Food Equity Program distributed 75 boxes of organic produce and fruit every week from June to September, 2024. Also, every other week we have educational sessions to talk about important issues related to our food and the importance of taking care of our environment. We worked to organize our communities to ensure that our people have access to healthy food. Pre-filing Diversion Program. This program provides a service-based alternative to criminal charges for people who have been ticketed by Seattle Police Department for Driving with a License Suspended 3 (DWLS 3). In 2024 the Pre-filing Diversion Program enrolled 32 clients and 4 regained their driver's license.
$107,739 spentof which $371 as grants$193,098 earned by the program25% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $438,037.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $282k to $454k (+61%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 84% · 2019 88% · 2020 55% · 2021 50% · 2022 45% · 2023 48% · 2024 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
102% of A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Ricardo Ortega
Executive Director
Board chair
Cindy Domingo
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $120k → $48k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 53% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING leans on a few funders — its largest provides 41% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
81% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 58% · 2021 67% · 2022 66% · 2023 63% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
40% of A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 25% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
53% of A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $139k that is directly attributable, 78% of it comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $155k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING is better cushioned than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING?
- A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING (Washington) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $293,892 to it, the largest being SEATTLE FOUNDATION ($120,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $293,892 in grants to A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING?
- SEATTLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like A LEGACY OF EQUALITY LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZING find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 8 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing