Campaign Legal Center Inc

Analysis

Campaign Legal Center Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2002, 24 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Campaign Legal Center Inc reported income of $21.5m and spending of $17.7m, spending 83% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $14.3m to $21.5m (+51%), an average of +11% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 43%. Over the whole period it spent 62% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Campaign Legal Center Inc sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 94th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Human Rights Campaign Foundation ($21.4m), Erie County Bar Association Aid to Indigent Prisoners Society Inc ($21.5m) and Equal Justice Works ($21.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 90% and program service revenue 4.3% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $704k (4.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $9.3m. It paid $308k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $45.8m against liabilities of $2.4m, net assets of $43.4m. It reported 99 employees.