Washington · Nonprofit
WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT
WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.8M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $16
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What Washington Appellate Project does
Mission
The Washington Appellate Project contracts with the state of washington and the federal government to provide legal representation to indigent persons on appeal.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Washington Appellate Project provides legal representation pursuant to constitutional and statutory mandates to indigent persons in the state and federal appellate courts by appointment from designated governmental administrators. We provide legal counsel and vigorous representation in the appellate review of criminal convictions, dependent child proceedings, parental rights terminations, and involuntary civil commitments. This requires our staff to foster relationships with our clients, review trial court records, conduct legal research, prepare appropriate legal pleadings and advocate on behalf of clients in various forums. In 2024, the Washington Appellate Project represented approximately 700 clients. The number of clients served has returned to pre-pandemic levels. The organization continues its commitment to providing access to equal justice for all people, no matter their economic status, the project's staff continued to provide training at the local, state, and national levels. The project's work continued to set standards for appellate practice and advocacy for indigent individuals in the legal system. We regularly consult with and advise public defense administrators…
$2,543,840 spentof which $100 as grants$3,742,139 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,543,840.
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.
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 $1.0M to $1.5M (+48%).
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 WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Gregory C Link
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% 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 WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16 arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT
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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT: 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 WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT?
- WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT (Washington) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $16 to it, the largest being AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION ($16). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $16 in grants to WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT.
- Who is the largest funder of WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT?
- AMAZONSMILE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $16 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WASHINGTON APPELLATE PROJECT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1 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