Minnesota · Nonprofit
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022,729 to it, the largest being Climate Imperative Foundation ($1,230,986). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,072 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- The Energy Foundationshared funders
- McCormick Dosh Collins Family Foundationportfolio match
- Forsythia Foundation 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
0% of PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose $294k → $745k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $353k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Mitchell Hamline School of Law). These are real filings, and they are not money PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC raised.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC’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
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
73% 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 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 64% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 72% · 2022 68% · 2023 68% — 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
40% of PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 12 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Energy Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 138 organizations that share your funders
- McCormick Dosh Collins Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Forsythia Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brunckhorst Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sunkara Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy S Mock Cf Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sidney a & Libby Fine Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ruth & Ezra Chesky Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philip Lee & Elizabeth B Ellis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laura Beale Toy & David a Toy Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lippincott Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$6.4M
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 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law · exempt
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law Student Bar Association Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER 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.
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 PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC?
- PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC (Minnesota) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,022,729 to it, the largest being Climate Imperative Foundation ($1,230,986). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $4,022,729 in grants to PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC?
- Climate Imperative Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,230,986 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC HEALTH LAW CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 12funders 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