Massachusetts · Nonprofit
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,746,028 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION ($675,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 57
- Grants received
- $5.7M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Health Law Advocates Inc does
Mission
Health law advocates (hla) provides free legal representation to eligible ma consumers facing barriers to health care. Hla fights for health care justice by representing consumers and through education and outreach throughout the state.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Health law advocates (hla) fights to achieve health care justice for society's most vulnerable members. Hla offers free legal assistance to income-eligible individuals or families who live or work in ma and are having difficulty obtaining health care. Hla also provides legal representation in matters that affect access to health care for groups of consumers and communities in ma.hla adopts strategic initiatives to address systemic health care access barriers that harm segments of the population. Hla's current focus areas include reducing barriers to mental health care for children, improving access to health care for immigrants, challenging obstacles to gender-affirming care for transgender people, combatting discrimination in health insurance against those with mental illness, protecting consumers from unlawful medical debt collection practices, helping individuals receive in-home health services, and preserving consumer protections in the state's medicaid program and the affordable care act. Hla is the only nonprofit law firm in the state dedicated exclusively to health care access.hla also conducts dozens of community outreach programs annually to learn about emerging health…
$4,691,618 spentof which $5,145 as grants$112,300 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,691,618.
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 2024 to 2025, from $4.0M to $5.7M (+44%).
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: 2021 43% · 2022 53% · 2023 58% · 2024 52% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC’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
Matt Selig
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $224k → $830k.
10 of 57 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 18% 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 HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 funders by total. 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
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 12% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
53% 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 HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 21% · 2019 27% · 2020 24% · 2021 21% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% — 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
53% of HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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
70% of HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES 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. $1.0M 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
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.0M on record.
- (MM) PURCHASED CLIENT/PROGRAM SVCS$11.6M
- (PP) STATE AID/POL SUB$325k
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 HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES 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.
In Massachusetts
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
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Health Care for All Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC?
- HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC (Massachusetts) receives grants from 57 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,746,028 to it, the largest being THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION ($675,000). 36 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC have?
- IRS filings report 57 organizations giving $5,746,028 in grants to HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC, 36 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC?
- THE PETER AND ELIZABETH C TOWER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 57 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing