Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,574,544 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($14,009,167). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $6.1M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $2.5M
What Neighborhood Legal Services Program of DC does
Mission
Nlsp enables underserved dc residents to make their voices heard in the courts and other forums where their rights and protections are at stake, to secure fair and lasting solutions to their problems and to attain their individual, family, and community goals.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Neighborhood legal services program (nlsp) provides free legal advice and representation on civil matters to low-income residents of the district of columbia. Its areas of work include family law, housing, public benefits, consumer issues and barriers to employment. Nlsp handles cases benefiting adults and children. Individuals also benefited from educational sessions about their legal rights and responsibilitie, referrals, trainings, and one-on-one legal informational sessions.
$5,496,734 spentof which $188,968 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,496,734.
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 2021 to 2022, from $2.6M to $4.5M (+73%).
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 48% · 2018 45% · 2019 35% · 2020 37% · 2021 41% · 2022 35% · 2023 25% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Karen Newton Cole
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $460k → $4.9M.
7 of 23 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC’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
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 58% · 2019 52% · 2020 47% · 2021 49% · 2022 61% · 2023 65% — 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
73% of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% 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
98% of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC'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. $869k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC?
- NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 23 organizations whose IRS filings report $23,574,544 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($14,009,167). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC have?
- IRS filings report 23 organizations giving $23,574,544 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC?
- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $14,009,167 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM OF DC 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 23 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