Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT
PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,812,889 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($792,583). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $2.8M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Pennsylvania Health Law Project does
Mission
The mission of the Pennsylvania Health Law Project (phlp) is to safeguard and advance health care rights for individuals from historically underserved and marginalized communities. By providing free legal services, engaging in community education, and advocating for policies that best address our clients' healthcare needs, phlp strives to ensure equitable access to healthcare, empowering people to navigate complex health systems and get the care they need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Pennsylvania Health Law Project (phlp) is a statewide, specialized legal aid program within the pennsylvania legal aid network. For more than 30 years, phlp has worked to safeguard and advance the health care rights of low-income, underserved, and/or marginalized pennsylvanians.phlp's core work includes: providing direct legal services to pennsylvanians who are trying to get or keep medicaid and other public health care coverage or services. We do this through legal counseling and representation in appeals when benefits or services are denied. We also use our legal expertise to troubleshoot problems and help eliminate barriers people face trying to access health insurance coverage or health care treatment and services they need. In fy 2024-2025, phlp handled 2,378 cases for clients across pennsylvania. Conducting community education and outreach to help people understand medicaid and other health programs for people with limited incomes and update them about program developments; raise awareness of participant rights and protections within medicaid; and share information to empower people in their self-advocacy efforts. In fy 2024-2025, phlp educated more than 2,000 people and…
$1,745,786 spent$1,950 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,745,786.
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 2019 to 2020, from $1.5M to $1.9M (+29%).
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 74% · 2018 69% · 2019 87% · 2020 82% · 2021 93% · 2022 93% · 2023 86% · 2024 83% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $154k → $269k.
4 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 12% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $10M from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services). These are real filings, and they are not money PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT raised.
From the IRS filings of PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT’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
PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
72% 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 PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 45% · 2018 31% · 2019 33% · 2020 50% · 2021 68% · 2022 41% · 2023 46% — 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
57% of PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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
63% of PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT's grant income comes from Pennsylvania funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $350k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $238k on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$238k
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 PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT
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 Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT: 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 PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT?
- PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,812,889 to it, the largest being PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD ($792,583). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,812,889 in grants to PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT?
- PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNTS BOARD is the largest funder on record, with $792,583 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 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