Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,566,806 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($2,050,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Coalition on Human Needs does
Mission
The organization's primary mission includes but not limited to: a) analyzing and adopting positions relating to federal, state and local responsibilities for meeting the needs of low-income people; b) advocating for those positions at the federal level; c) encouraging, working wtih and assisting national, state and local groups with interests similar to those of the coalition.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Research of federal legislation related to the needs of low-income people: Analysis of federal legislation, budgets, appropriations. Helpfulness of initiatives, adequacy of funding analyzed for impact on low-income and vulnerable people and related to economic conditions.
$602,739 spent$95,000 earned by the program40% of program spendingEducation of advocates and policymakers in DC and nationwide - Hold meetings, online communications, newsletters and other written materials, such as reports. Changes in economic conditions, such as rising poverty and joblessness, will have a bearing on the number of participants in educational webinars or use of online materials. Similarly, political changes in Washington can improve or lead to cuts in federal programs for low-income people.
$602,739 spent40% of program spendingConvening advocacy/policy expert organizations nationwide in support of low -income services and benefits - Providing forums, including weekly meetings among DC-based advocates, other meetings and conference calls to discuss joint or complementary strategies and activities.
$301,370 spent20% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,506,848.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.0M to $792k (−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: 2020 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 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
Deborah Weinstein
Executive director
Board chair
Ellen Teller
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $823k → $955k.
5 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% 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 COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS’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
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 55% · 2018 69% · 2019 60% · 2020 34% · 2021 43% · 2022 31% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“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
70% of COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 431 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 431 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
76% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
48%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Chn Action · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS: 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 COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS?
- COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,566,806 to it, the largest being WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC ($2,050,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $8,566,806 in grants to COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS?
- WELLSPRING PHILANTHROPIC FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,050,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COALITION ON HUMAN NEEDS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 21 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