Washington · Nonprofit
LAW ADVOCATES
LAW ADVOCATES (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,908,334 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($1,798,864). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $693k
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $216k
What Law Advocates does
Mission
To provide free civil legal aid.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Law Advocates operates a variety of programs in pursuit of its vision of: a compassionate and just society where legal and community volunteers are working together, in equitable partnership with affected communities, to achieve access to justice for all marginalized people with dignity and racial equity.these services include full representation, limited scope representation, and legal advice. The programs operated include, but are not limited to, the following:kinship custody clinic: this clinic ensures children's needs are met when parents are unable to care for them. Law Advocates and opportunity council meet this need with a committed and compassionate legal team to help caregivers navigate the courts in guardianship cases. Wills clinic: in our wills clinic, our dedicated pro bono attorneys draft simple wills and power of attorneys for clients who are seniors, with disabilities and/or terminally ill. Street law: street law (legal advice clinic) returned to in-person sessions through a partnership with the bellingham public library. With dedicated volunteer attorneys advising on family, landlord-tenant and general legal matters, Law Advocates witnessed a substantial increase…
$385,382 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $385,382.
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.
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 $124k to $249k (+101%).
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 2% · 2018 2% · 2019 5% · 2020 5% · 2021 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Heidi Bode
Executive director
Board chair
David Henken
Board president
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $208k → $318k.
3 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 LAW ADVOCATES’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
LAW ADVOCATES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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
98% 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 LAW ADVOCATES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 98% · 2019 97% · 2020 91% · 2021 97% · 2022 100% · 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.
Where its funders are
100% of LAW ADVOCATES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66k 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.
Organizations like LAW ADVOCATES
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 LAW ADVOCATES: 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 LAW ADVOCATES?
- LAW ADVOCATES (Washington) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,908,334 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($1,798,864). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAW ADVOCATES have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,908,334 in grants to LAW ADVOCATES, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAW ADVOCATES?
- LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $1,798,864 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAW ADVOCATES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 6 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