Utah · Nonprofit
DISABILITY LAW CENTER
DISABILITY LAW CENTER (Utah) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,102,312 to it, the largest being AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ($1,977,629). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $3.7M
What Disability Law Center does
Mission
Enforce and strengthen the laws that protect the rights of people with disabilities in utah through legal advocacy.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness:protect and advocate for the rights of people with mental illness and to investigate reports of abuse and neglect in facilities that care for or treat individuals with mental illness.
$473,700 spent14% of program spendingFair housing initiatives program: protect and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities in the rental, purchase, and sale of real property
$425,000 spent$104,731 earned by the program13% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for people with developmental disabilities:pursue legal and other appropriate remedies to protect and advocate for the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities under all applicable federal and state laws.
$414,977 spent12% of program spendingClient assistance program: assistance in pursuing administrative, legaland other appropiate remedies to ensure the protection of personsreceiving or seeking services under the rehab act.expenses $ 165,591. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $ 0.protection and advocacy for beneficiaries of social security act:protect and advocate for the rights of people with disabilities who arecurrently receiving social security benefits, want to work and haveimpediments to employment.expenses $ 209,341. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $ 0.protection and advocacy for individual rights:protect and advocate for the legal and human rights of persons withdisabilities.expenses $ 200,656. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $ 0.protection and advocacy for voting access: ensure election access toindividuals with disabilities.expenses $ 106,932. Including grants of $ 0. Revenue $ 0.protection and advocacy for assistive technology: assist individualswith disabilities and their family members, guardians, advocates, andauthorized representatives in accessing technology devices andassistive technology services through case management, legalrepresentation, and self-advocacy training.expenses $ 64,225. Including…
$2,058,483 spent61% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,372,160.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.8M to $3.7M (+32%).
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 65% · 2018 88% · 2019 88% · 2020 79% · 2021 78% · 2022 74% · 2023 68% · 2024 59% · 2025 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of DISABILITY LAW CENTER’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Adina Zahradnikova
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $327k → $554k.
4 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 DISABILITY LAW CENTER’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
DISABILITY LAW CENTER leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
85% 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 DISABILITY LAW CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 43% · 2019 58% · 2020 63% · 2021 49% · 2022 43% · 2023 47% — 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
86% of DISABILITY LAW CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
94% of DISABILITY LAW CENTER's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $36k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
DISABILITY LAW CENTER holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISABILITY LAW CENTER receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $19.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
- Department of Education$3.0M
- Social Security Administration$2.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like DISABILITY 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABILITY 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 DISABILITY LAW CENTER?
- DISABILITY LAW CENTER (Utah) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,102,312 to it, the largest being AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ($1,977,629). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY LAW CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $4,102,312 in grants to DISABILITY LAW CENTER, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY LAW CENTER?
- AND JUSTICE FOR ALL is the largest funder on record, with $1,977,629 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY LAW CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 13 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