Washington · Nonprofit
DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON
DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,328,563 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($980,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $3.3M
- Net assets
- $6.7M
What Disability Rights Washington does
Mission
Disability Rights Washington's mission is to advance the dignity, equality, and self determination of people with disabilities. We work to pursue justice on matters related to human and legal rights.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Office of developmental disabilities ombuds (dd ombuds) assists people with developmental disabilities with complaints and concerns about their services. The dd ombuds opened 126 new individual complaint investigations, conducted 134 monitoring visits across the state to review facilities, residences, and programs where people with developmental disabilities receive services. The dd ombuds provided more than 2,816 people across the state with information about our services, self-advocacy, and rights and responsibilities and advocated for policy and procedure changes which affected over 60,000 clients of the developmental disabilities administration.
$704,208 spent17% of program spendingProtection and advocacy for individuals with developmental disabilities (padd) the padd program provides legal-based advocacy services to protect and advocate for the rights of individuals with developmental disabilities in washington state. In 2025, drw monitored the living, working and/or other circumstances of approximately 6000 individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities at approximately ten facilities across the state. Additionally, drw completed 61 individual advocacy services, provided information and referral services to 403 people, and worked on 36 group advocacy projects and cases that impacted over 741,414 people.
$999,523 spent$67,695 earned by the program23% of program spendingThe protection and advocacy for individuals with mental illness (paimi) program provides legal based advocacy services to protect and advocate for the rights of individuals with significant mental illness in washington state. In 2025, drw's paimi program monitored living facilities to ensure safe conditions for over 8000 individuals. Additionally, drw completed 244 individual advocacy services, provided information and referral services to 762 people, and impacted over 881,000 people through group advocacy projects and cases.
$681,628 spent$8,864 earned by the program16% of program spendingAssistance to disabled beneficiaries, protection and advocacy of individual rights, to support the rooted in rights program, and other program services.
$1,868,654 spent$563,023 earned by the program44% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,254,013.
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 $6.0M to $7.5M (+26%).
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 61% · 2018 49% · 2019 63% · 2020 62% · 2021 64% · 2022 64% · 2023 57% · 2024 50% · 2025 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Nachama Wilker
Interim executive director
Board chair
Camesha Little
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $35k → $1.4M.
6 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 RIGHTS WASHINGTON’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 RIGHTS WASHINGTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
69% 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 RIGHTS WASHINGTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 89% · 2019 69% · 2020 48% · 2021 59% · 2022 41% · 2023 55% — 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
40% of DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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
DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON draws 55% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $965k 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 RIGHTS WASHINGTON is better cushioned than half of the 6,891 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 6,891 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.7M on record — $24.7M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.5M
- Social Security Administration$4.8M
- Department of Education$3.4M
- (HH) CONSULTANT SVCS (TO DEPTS)$3k
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 RIGHTS WASHINGTON
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON: 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 RIGHTS WASHINGTON?
- DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON (Washington) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,328,563 to it, the largest being THE FORD FOUNDATION ($980,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $3,328,563 in grants to DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON?
- THE FORD FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $980,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON 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.
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 25 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