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DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC

DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,604,428 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP ($8,221,656). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$5.0M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$8.6M
Net assets
$2.8M
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 27%
01What it does

What Disability Law Center Inc does

Mission

To provide protection and advocacy services for persons with disabilities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Paidd-provided legal & advocacy services for persons with developmental disabilities.

    $767,838 spent$861,475 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  2. Paimi-provided legal & advocacy services for persons with mental illness.

    $549,526 spent$456,094 earned by the program
    14% of program spending
  3. Patbi-provided sevices for improving and enhancing services for people with traumatic brain injuries in massachusetts.

    $88,161 spent$94,569 earned by the program
    2% of program spending
  4. Pava-provided services to individuals with disabilities expense revenue to ensure full participation in the electoral process. 166,146 188,019 mlac-gs-provided backup and support to other legal services in the area of discrimination based on disabilities. 1,111,122 1,284,832 pair-provided legal & advocacy services to persons with disabilities. 313,405 196,924 dpb-provided backup and support to other legal services in the area. 184,975 182,256 pabss-provided information, advice and assistance to social security beneficiaries trying to secure or regain employment. 141,657 146,824 paat-provided legal advocacy to ensure that persons with disabilities get the assistive devices and assitive technology-related services they need. 88,088 99,273 pabrp-program entails onsite reviews of rep payees consisting of detailed assessments of representative payee financial records and of beneficiary well-being. 551,019 671,461 public interest law firm cases in litigation disability law center, inc. Is a public interest law firm exempt under section 501(c)(3). The organization's mission is to provide legal advocacy on disability issues that promote the fundamental rights of all people with…

    $2,556,412 spent$2,769,589 earned by the program
    65% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,961,937.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($3.0M) Expenses 100 ($2.9M) Net assets 100 ($1.7M)2021 Revenue 112 ($3.4M) Expenses 112 ($3.2M) Net assets 110 ($1.9M)2022 Revenue 129 ($3.9M) Expenses 129 ($3.7M) Net assets 122 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 141 ($4.3M) Expenses 144 ($4.1M) Net assets 129 ($2.3M)2024 Revenue 154 ($4.7M) Expenses 157 ($4.5M) Net assets 138 ($2.4M)2025 Revenue 165 ($5.0M) Expenses 162 ($4.6M) Net assets 160 ($2.8M)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (165)Expenses (162)Net assets (160)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.6M to $3.4M (+33%).

$2.1M
$2.4M
$2.6M
$3.4M
$3.4M
$3.5M
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 59% · 2021 63% · 2022 69% · 2023 65% · 2024 64% · 2025 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

89% of DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$167k
’20
$183k
’21
$205k
’22
$122k
’23
$154k
’24
$382k
’25
8.0
months of
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.

202020212022202320242025
Listed161515151314
Joined·+0+1+6+1+5
No longer listed·11634
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $683k → $1.2M.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 INC’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 INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 96% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

99% 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 INC.

96%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 90% · 2019 96% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% — 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

71% of DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

98% of DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC's grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.

VT
NY
MA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Massachusetts out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve8.0mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)11% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.6M on record — $23.7M federal, $913k state.

Federal$23.7M
grants $23.7Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$14.7M
  • Social Security Administration$5.9M
  • Department of Education$3.1M
State$913k
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Top programs
  • (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$910k
  • (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$2k
  • (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$900

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 INC

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.

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

96%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

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Questions and answers

Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC?
DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,604,428 to it, the largest being MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP ($8,221,656). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $8,604,428 in grants to DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC?
MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP is the largest funder on record, with $8,221,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 10 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