Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs

Analysis

Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in November 1992, 34 years ago. Its declared purposes cover philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations, which this site groups under grant-making and general purposes. 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, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs reported income of $4.6m and spending of $5.3m, spending 115% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $3.3m to $4.6m (+39%), an average of +8.6% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 114%. Over the whole period it spent 104% of the income it received.

Among 19,413 United States charities whose main cause is grant-making and general purposes and that reported income, Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights & Urban Affairs 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 79th percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Goodwill of Colorado Foundation ($4.6m), Shirleys Way ($4.6m) and The United Way of Northeast Louisiana Inc ($4.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 88% and program service revenue 12% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $573k (11% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $2.5m. At year end it held assets of $7.7m against liabilities of $4.3m, net assets of $3.5m. It reported 43 employees.