Massachusetts · Nonprofit
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.
Against its field
DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 694 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 694 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Massachusetts Bar Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio match
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio match
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio match
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.
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 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).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
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.
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.
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.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Massachusetts Bar Foundation Incshared fundersportfolio matchMA · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice Worksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Franklin Square House Foundation Incshared fundersMA · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Children's Hospital Corporationshared funderslocalMA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders · funds 166 organizations near you
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Incshared funderslocalMA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 109 organizations near you
- Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fundshared funderslocalMA · backs 75 organizations that share your funders · funds 175 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
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.
- Department of Health and Human Services$14.7M
- Social Security Administration$5.9M
- Department of Education$3.1M
- (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
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 10funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing