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Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND (Washington, D.C.) is funded by 12 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $4,730,000 in grants to it, the largest being CENTER FOR LAW AND POLICY ($2,795,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND has grown faster than half of the 9,516 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,516 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
100% of RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Grant income rose $85k → $1.1M on a roughly flat funder count — a concentrated base.
From the IRS filings of RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 89%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 59% · 2019 82% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 61% · 2024 91% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
13% of RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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.
RULE OF LAW DEFENSE FUND is locally rooted: 64% of its grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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 175 organizations that share them.
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.
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.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
71% of spending goes to programs.
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), 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. view filing