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WASHINGTON LEGAL FOUNDATION

EIN 52-1071570 WASHINGTON, DC

Revenue 2024
$4,837,462
Expenses 2024
$1,973,209

Program services were 61.8% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
I830
Classification
1000
Street
2009 MASSACHUSETTS AVE NW

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH OUR LEGAL SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN BALANCE IN THE COURTS AND HELP OUR GOVERNMENT STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM. THE FOUNDATION CHAMPIONS FREE MARKET PRINCIPLES, INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS, BUSINESS CIVIL LIBERTIES AND LEGAL ETHICS. IT SERVES THE PUBLIC INTEREST THROUGH LITIGATION AND REPRESENTATION, LEGAL PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS, INTERN PROGRAMS, RESEARCH AND BRIEFS, WEB SEMINARS, MONOGRAPHS, EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS, MEDIA BRIEFINGS AND EDUCATIONAL VIDEO COMMENTARIES. THE FOUNDATION ACCOMPLISHES ITS MISSION BY SHAPING PUBLIC POLICY THROUGH LITIGATION AND ADVOCACY, PUBLISHING TIMELY LEGAL STUDIES AND EDUCATING POLICY-MAKERS AND PUBLIC THROUGH EXTENSIVE COMMUNICATIONS OUTREACH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE FOUNDATION WORKS WITH OUR LEGAL SYSTEM TO MAINTAIN BALANCE IN THE COURTS AND STRENGTHEN AMERICA'S FREE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM.

  • LITIGATION, LEGAL PUBLIC POLICY ANALYSIS, CLINICAL LEGAL INTERN PROGRAM, BRIEFS AND RESEARCH DOCUMENTS, PUBLIC LEGAL ISSUES, MONOGRAPH SERIES, EDUCATIONAL LEGAL STUDIES, NINE DIFFERENT PUBLICATION FORMATS, MEDIA BRIEFINGS, WEB SEMINARS, AND EDUCATIONAL VIDEO COMMENTARIES.

    Expenses $1,220,096

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • CONSTANCE C LARCHER

    CHAIR / PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $162,529
    From this org
    $148,207
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $14,322
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $141,457
    Bonus
    $6,750
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $14,322
    Filer's total
    $162,529

  • MICHAEL HICKEY

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DUSTIN J DEVANEY

    TREASURER / SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATTHEY HUMPHREY

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DAVID MCPHERSON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GLENN G LAMMI

    EXEC DIR / VP LEGAL STUDIES

    Total calculated
    $318,016
    From this org
    $318,016
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $302,872
    Bonus
    $15,144
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $318,016

  • SHEILA BRANTLEY

    CHIEF OPEARTING OFFICER

    Total calculated
    $133,900
    From this org
    $133,900
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    37.5

  • CORY L ANDREWS

    GENERAL COUNSEL / VP LITIGATION

    Total calculated
    $312,845
    From this org
    $312,752
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $93
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $297,857
    Bonus
    $14,895
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $93
    Filer's total
    $312,845

  • JOHN MASSLON

    SENIOR LITIGATION COUNSEL

    Total calculated
    $167,350
    From this org
    $163,997
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $3,353
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $163,997
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $3,353
    Filer's total
    $167,350

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $4,837,462
    Expenses
    $1,973,209
    Contributions
    $3,189,523
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $3,555,115
    Expenses
    $1,877,680
    Contributions
    $2,751,471
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $3,798,630
    Expenses
    $1,731,422
    Contributions
    $2,926,018
    Grants paid
    $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,704,118
    Expenses
    $1,706,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $33,526,815

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,823,526
    Expenses
    $1,894,020
    Assets (EOY)
    $30,750,487

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,605,351
    Expenses
    $2,418,891
    Assets (EOY)
    $27,867,886

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $3,740,946
    Expenses
    $2,410,581
    Assets (EOY)
    $26,431,271

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,301,268
    Expenses
    $2,450,099
    Assets (EOY)
    $25,413,530

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $4,794,798
    Expenses
    $2,357,550
    Assets (EOY)
    $23,317,022

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.