Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES
THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,025,834 to it, the largest being HOPEWELL FUND ($3,408,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $9.0M
- Net assets
- $734k
What The Leadership Center for Attorney General Studies does
Mission
The Leadership Center for Attorney General Studies (lcags) is a non-profit organization incorporated in the district of columbia. Lcags focuses on the work of attorneys general and the impact their offices have on communities. By conducting original research, analyzing ag actions, and communicating this knowledge to key stakeholders and the public, lcags hopes to create a better informed public on the importance of attorneys general.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
Lcags supported fellows who conducted research and wrote papers published to the lcags website to educate the public on the role and work of state attorneys general.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Other policy initiatives: lcags provided a grant to the progressive states leaders committee to support a public education program around the role of state attorneys general.
$1,618,504 spentof which $1,501,000 as grants86% of program spendingFellow program: research and writing to educate the public on the role of state attorneys general in public matters.
$217,618 spent12% of program spendingPartner development: a program to help build media infrastructure across the country to counter disinformation and increase trusted coverage of national and state politics and government reaching americans online.
$52,145 spent3% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,888,267.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $2.4M to $830k (−65%).
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.
100% of THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 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
Michelle Ortiz
Executive director (see schedule o)
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $3.6M → $829k.
12 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% 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: $830k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES raised.
From the IRS filings of THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES’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
THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
95% 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 THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 96% · 2021 88% · 2022 65% · 2023 60% — 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
25% of THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 35% 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
92% of THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $691k that is directly attributable, 64% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 5 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $8.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES's revenue fell 70% between 2020 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 976 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES
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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 16 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES: 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 THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES?
- THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,025,834 to it, the largest being HOPEWELL FUND ($3,408,750). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $9,025,834 in grants to THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES?
- HOPEWELL FUND is the largest funder on record, with $3,408,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE LEADERSHIP CENTER FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL STUDIES 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 20 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