California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,447,569 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($17,811,305). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 51
- Grants received
- $42M
- Net assets
- $26M
What National Health Law Program Inc does
Mission
See schedule o.the national health law program protects and advances the health care rights and related civil rights of low-income individuals, families, and underserved communities. Our advocacy strives to give voice to low-income people and families in federal and state policy making. The national health law program litigates to ensure that low-income people and underserved communities can obtain quality health care to which they are entitled because of various federal and state laws, such as medicaid, the affordable care act, americans with disabilities act, the children's health insurance program, the civil rights act of 1964 and many other laws and policies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
See schedule o.litigation:partnering with state and local advocates across the country, attorneys for the national health law program represented low-income individuals and families in litigation to enforce provisions of the medicaid act and other federal and state health and civil rights laws.for example, in 2024, the organization concluded successful litigation with one of our state partners to prevent a states from unlawfully dropping people from the medicaid rolls. We also continued litigation to ensure transparency and accountability, due process, and access to services, including several cases to ensure that medically fragile children receive the services that are guaranteed them under medicaid's early and periodic screening, diagnostic and treatment provisions and cases to enforce the anti-discrimination provisions of the affordable care act. We filed amicus briefs in cases raising significant issues affecting the medicaid program and the affordable care act.
$4,213,129 spentof which $1,148,500 as grants$76,393 earned by the program48% of program spendingSee schedule o.national policy:the national health law program's health policy work advocates for protection and expansion of health and civil rights of low-income individuals and families and underserved communities. The national health law program's health policy efforts in 2024 included but were not limited to the following: (1) advocating to protect the medicaid program from anticipated efforts to cut funding and impose barriers to enrollment and access to services; (2) working to prevent damage caused by the end of the public health emergency, through advocacy at the federal level and support to advocates at the state level; (3) providing legal and policy support to national and state based coalitions working to protect, and where possible, expand access to health care for low-income individuals, families and underserved communities; (4) providing legal support and problem-solving expertise to policymakers, advocates, and providers as legal issues arise at the administrative (regulatory) and state implementation levels; (5) providing legal support to policymakers to consider new models for providing health care to all.during 2024 the national health law program again…
$1,331,646 spent$63,900 earned by the program15% of program spendingSee schedule o.california policy:in 2024, nhelp engaged in significant efforts to help develop and implement improvements to california's publicly funded health care system. Some of the key efforts included: working with the state to implement a new law expanding full-scope medi-cal to all adults regardless of immigration status; advocating for and working with the state to improve access to behavioral health care throught the medi-cal program; insuring continuity of care for people transitioning from one managed care plan to another; continuing ongoing efforts to expand access to sexual and reproductive health care, including doula and contraceptive services; and implementing changes to medi-cal through the california advancing and innovating medi-cal (calaim) initiative.
$1,171,289 spent$83,573 earned by the program13% of program spendingThe national health law program engaged in a number of targeted projects to support our primary goals.
$2,044,375 spent23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,760,439.
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 2018 to 2019, from $15M to $20M (+30%).
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.
90% of NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
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
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
Elizabeth Taylor
Executive director
Board chair
Ann Kappler
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 23 funders, grant income rose $4.1M → $4.8M.
9 of 51 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 51 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
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 60%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 23% · 2019 51% · 2020 49% · 2021 67% · 2022 51% · 2023 35% — broadly stable.
“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
55% of NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,580 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,580 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $90 on record.
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$90
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 NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
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 NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM 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 NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC?
- NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC (California) receives grants from 51 organizations whose IRS filings report $42,447,569 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($17,811,305). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 51 organizations giving $42,447,569 in grants to NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC?
- THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,811,305 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL HEALTH LAW PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 51 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