Neighborhood Legal Services Program of the District of Columbia

Analysis

Neighborhood Legal Services Program of the District of Columbia is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in March 1968, 58 years ago. 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, Neighborhood Legal Services Program of the District of Columbia reported income of $5.5m and spending of $5.3m, spending 97% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.2m to $5.5m (+72%), an average of +15% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 45%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 72,936 United States charities whose main cause is other charitable purposes and that reported income, Neighborhood Legal Services Program of the District of Columbia sits at the 92nd percentile: it is larger than about 92% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 81st percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Lakeview Temple Inc ($5.5m), Voices for Children Foundation Inc ($5.5m) and Legal Council for Health Justice ($5.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 100% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $3.2m (61% of expenses). It paid $101k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $4.6m against liabilities of $2.4m, net assets of $2.2m. It reported 69 employees.