Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc
The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,679,828 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,120,516). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $18M
- Funders on record
- 78
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $19M
What The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc does
Mission
The mission of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law is to advance the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and promote justice for all.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
LDB monitors legislative and regulatory developments concerning anti-Semitism and engages in strategic advocacy to advance these issues.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
LDB uses strategic legal advocacy and legal tools to pursue legal justice in the fight against anti-Semitism.
$8,703,370 spent77% of program spendingLDB maintains programming for college law students and hosts The JIGSAW Fellowship Program to train a select group of law students on campus to assist students to combat anti-Semitism and other activities related to the Center.
$1,345,694 spent12% of program spendingLDB is involved in academic research, publishing, and sharing findings with other organizations and in the public sphere.
$1,028,421 spentof which $1,000 as grants$18,700 earned by the program9% of program spendingLDB monitors legislative and regulatory developments concerning anti-Semitism and engages in strategic advocacy to advance these issues.
$203,578 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $11,281,063.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $2.9M to $16M (+450%).
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: 2021 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 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
Kenneth Marcus
Chairman and CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 34 funders, grant income rose $264k → $4.7M.
16 of 78 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 59% 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 The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 78 funders by total. 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 Louis D Brandeis Center Inc has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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
63% 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 Louis D Brandeis Center Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 61% · 2019 30% · 2020 43% · 2021 38% · 2022 28% · 2023 21% — 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
47% of The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
59% of The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc'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 $13M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 20 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $19M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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 Louis D Brandeis Center Inc runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 10 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The Louis D Brandeis 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc?
- The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 78 organizations whose IRS filings report $32,679,828 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($8,120,516). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 59% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc have?
- IRS filings report 78 organizations giving $32,679,828 in grants to The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $8,120,516 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Louis D Brandeis Center Inc 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 FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 78 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