Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY
LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,304,059 to it, the largest being AARP ($81,673,116). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared funderslocal
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio match
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio match
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.
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 36% · 2018 35% · 2019 33% · 2020 4% · 2021 24% · 2022 69% · 2023 30% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $330k → $4.9M.
6 of 37 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 LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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
LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 78% · 2019 73% · 2020 99% · 2021 74% · 2022 73% · 2023 65% — 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
58% of LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 68% 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
99% of LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $424k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
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 37 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John Edward Fowler Memorial Foundationshared funderslocalMD · backs 67 organizations that share your funders · funds 84 organizations near you
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skadden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Corporate Counsel Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Legal Services Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William S Abell Foundation Incshared funderslocalMD · backs 66 organizations that share your funders · funds 90 organizations near you
- Diane & Norman Bernstein Foundation Incshared funderslocalDC · backs 46 organizations that share your funders · funds 85 organizations near you
- Clark Charitable Foundation Inc Dba a James & Alice B Clark Foundationshared funderslocalMD · backs 82 organizations that share your funders · funds 133 organizations near you
- The Morningstar Philanthropic Foundation D/B/A the Morningstar Foundationshared funderslocalMD · backs 56 organizations that share your funders · funds 97 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 LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.5M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$950k
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 LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
24%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 7 related entities
- AARP (Consolidated) · exempt
- AARP Foundation · exempt
- AARP Insurance Plan · exempt
- Wish of a Lifetime · exempt
- Older Adults Technology Services · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY: 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 LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY?
- LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $91,304,059 to it, the largest being AARP ($81,673,116). 25 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $91,304,059 in grants to LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY, 25 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY?
- AARP is the largest funder on record, with $81,673,116 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL COUNSEL FOR THE ELDERLY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 37funders 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