Washington · Nonprofit
BENEFITS LAW CENTER
BENEFITS LAW CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,155,571 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($3,433,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $506k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $1.1M
What Benefits Law Center does
Mission
Benefits Law Center provides accessible legal advocacy to people living with physical and mental disabilities so that they may obtain the resources necessary to overcome barriers to financial and medical stability. We further our mission through targeted advocacy projects that help people with social disability programs.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The social security advocacy project (ssap): helping people with disabilities who already receive social security benefits by providing legal assistance with problems that arise with their benefits. In 2024, the center served 314 clients in the ssap.
$599,765 spent$46,335 earned by the program73% of program spendingThe disabled homeless advocacy project (dhap): helping people with disabilities who experience homelessness by providing legal aid related to social security benefits. In 2024, the center served 120 clients in dhap.
$216,827 spent$17,138 earned by the program27% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $816,592.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $1.9M (+49%).
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: 2017 5% · 2018 5% · 2019 11% · 2020 26% · 2021 18% · 2022 34% · 2023 22% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of BENEFITS LAW CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Hien-Huy Nguyen
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $168k → $1.2M.
3 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 BENEFITS LAW CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 funders by total. 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
BENEFITS LAW CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 BENEFITS LAW CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 52% · 2019 64% · 2020 84% · 2021 97% · 2022 34% · 2023 95% — 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
60% of BENEFITS LAW CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
97% of BENEFITS LAW CENTER's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $175k 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
BENEFITS LAW CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like BENEFITS LAW CENTER
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BENEFITS LAW CENTER: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BENEFITS LAW CENTER?
- BENEFITS LAW CENTER (Washington) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,155,571 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($3,433,300). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BENEFITS LAW CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $4,155,571 in grants to BENEFITS LAW CENTER, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BENEFITS LAW CENTER?
- LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $3,433,300 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BENEFITS LAW CENTER 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 14 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