Dupage Legal Assistance Foundation

Analysis

Dupage Legal Assistance Foundation is a registered charity in United States, based in Wheaton, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in May 1976, 50 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 (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending June 2023, Dupage Legal Assistance Foundation reported income of $631k and spending of $507k, spending 80% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from June 2019 to June 2023, income grew from $479k to $631k (+32%), an average of +7.1% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to June 2021, when income rose by 60%. Over the whole period it spent 68% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Dupage Legal Assistance Foundation sits at the 67th percentile: it is larger than about 67% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 74th percentile, and in the 73rd percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gender Equity Policy Institute ($630k), First Defense Legal Aid ($631k) and I M Still Standing Community Corporation ($630k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending June 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 86% and program service revenue 5.6% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $344k. At year end it held assets of $1.4m against liabilities of $107k, net assets of $1.3m. It reported 11 employees.