Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC
THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,223,001 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,071,050). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.9M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $6.2M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What The Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Inc does
Mission
Our mission is to achieve justice for our neighbors experiencing the injustice of homelessness and poverty. Rooted in a client-centered framework, we utilize a community lawyering approach to provide low-barrier and comprehensive legal services. We seek systemic reform through zealous advocacy for public policies that reflect community needs, affirm racial justice, improve housing security, and expand the social safety net for people experiencing crises.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal services - for legal services in 2025, the legal clinic held intake sessions where volunteer attorneys opened 72 cases. Staff attorneys opened an additional 200 legal matters. Overall, 68 cases were related to shelter issues (a number of which focused on securing access to shelter for families who had been unlawfully denied admission to this life-saving resource) and 168 cases involved housing issues (often related to short- and long-term housing subsidies). The remainder was a mix of issues concerning cash benefits and civil issues that included consumer matters, discrimination, disability rights, police conduct, identification, and more. In 2025, staff and volunteer attorneys continued to work on an additional 175 cases from prior year, including two class actions.
$1,241,612 spent55% of program spendingCommunity engagment -the legal clinic is committed to ensuring that unhoused community members are aware of their rights, have the training and support needed to participate in the public discourse that impacts their lives, and the ability and space to develop their own advocacy goals.
$519,496 spent23% of program spendingPolicy & advocacy -for policy and advocacy in 2025, the legal clinic worked to improve and increase funding for programs that clients rely on for shelter and housing. Through litigation; legislative, policy, budget and administrative advocacy; agency reform; and community education, the legal clinic attempted to improve programs and expand opportunities for clients and other low-income community members on issues such as the rights of people in encampments, access to emergency shelter, subsidized and affordable housing, miminizing barriers to housing access, and increasing the investment in permanent affordable housing and eviction prevention funding.
$486,402 spent22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,247,510.
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.
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 $1.6M to $2.6M (+59%).
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 20%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Amber Harding Esq
Executive director
Board chair
James E Rocap Iii Esq
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 27 funders, grant income rose $527k → $890k.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 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 WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% 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 WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 28% · 2019 20% · 2020 22% · 2021 21% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% — 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
56% of THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 13 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.
Organizations like THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS 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
91% 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 11 states
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS 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 WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC?
- THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,223,001 to it, the largest being GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($1,071,050). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $6,223,001 in grants to THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS INC?
- GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,071,050 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE HOMELESS 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.
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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 56 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