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Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education

Organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, which includes carrying on the following purposes,(contd on schedule o)

$5.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.8M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$20MHuman Services$1.3MCommunity Improvement$125kHousing & Shelter$117kHealth$106kScience & Tech$10k
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $270k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $103k
  • $250k+4 grants · $5.6M
$25,491
Median grant
1
States reached
$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES$2,849,275
SOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL AID$1,830,465
DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES$601,240
WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE$323,637
FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGE$51,400
STEP UP TO JUSTICE$51,300
SOJOURNER CENTER$37,323
EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO$32,625
DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN$25,900
AGAINST ABUSE INC$25,491
ARIZONA LEGAL WOMEN AND YOUTH$25,200
TIME OUT$20,184
KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE$19,227
CATHOLIC COMM SERV IN WEST AZ$18,705
COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS$17,835
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AGAINST ABUSE INC: $52k → 11%CATHOLIC COMM SERV IN WEST AZ: $19k → 15%Kingman Aid to Abused People: $21k → 17%COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS: $18k → 20%AGAINST ABUSE INC: $25k → 11%CATHOLIC COMM SERV IN WEST AZ: $18k → 15%KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $21k → 17%COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS: $17k → 20%AGAINST ABUSE INC: $23k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST: $16k → 15%Kingman Aid to Abused People: $21k → 17%COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS: $13k → 20%AGAINST ABUSE INC: $20k → 11%CATHOLIC COMM SERV IN WEST AZ: $16k → 15%KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $21k → 17%AGAINST ABUSE INC: $18k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST: $16k → 15%KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $20k → 17%CATHOLIC COMM SERV IN WEST AZ: $16k → 15%KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $20k → 17%CATHOLIC COMM SERV IN WEST AZ: $16k → 15%KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $19k → 17%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & D: $85k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES WEST: $15k → 15%Page Regional DV: $13k → 16%Kingman Aid to Abused People: $16k → 17%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & D: $11k → 11%CATHOLIC COM SERV OF SE AZ: $18k → 15%Page Regional DV: $12k → 16%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & D: $10k → 11%CATHOLIC COM SERV OF SE AZ: $18k → 15%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & D: $9k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SE: $17k → 15%ARIZONA COALITION TO END SEXUAL & D: $8k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SE: $16k → 15%CATHOLIC COM SERV OF SE AZ: $15k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SE: $15k → 15%DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN: $26k → 11%CATHOLIC COM SERV OF SE AZ: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC COM SERV OF SE AZ: $8k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO: $35k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO: $33k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO: $33k → 15%emerge center against abuse: $32k → 15%emerge center against abuse: $31k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO: $30k → 15%emerge center against abuse: $30k → 15%EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC VIO: $25k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 19 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
6

Total granted

$22M
$182k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+33%

Still filing today

95%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CL
    COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $8.3M · revenue +57% · 26% of their budget
  • SA
    SOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL AID INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.5M · revenue +37% · 28% of their budget
  • DP
    DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • AC
    AZ Coalition to end violence
    one grant, 2019 · $136k
  • LT
    Lovitt & Touche Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • C
    CALI
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
2
Domestic Violence Safe Options Svcs

Aid victims of domestic violence/assualt

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3
Tu Casa Incorporated

To support healthy violence-free lives and relationships for all children and adults in the San Luis Valley by providing crisis intervention services advocacy and counseling for victims and survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

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4
Family Crisis Center Inc

The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.

Human Services
5
Casa de Esperanza

Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…

Human Services
6
Arizona Crime Victim Rights Law Group

Our mission is to help crime victims navigate through all facets of the criminal justice system asserting constitutionally and statutorily protected rights. We seek enforcement of victim rights as counsel of record throughout the…

Crime & Legal
7
Community Beyond Violence

CBV heals the trauma of sexual assault and domestic violence by providing crisis intervention, safety, advocacy, and education to survivors and our community.

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8
S a F E Shelter

We are committed to helping victims of sexual assault and abuse and domestic assault and abuse through advocacy support and education. We provide emergency shelter to domestic assault victims. We Also are committed to educating the public…

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9
Womens Aid in Crisis Inc

Domestic violence shelter provides 24 hour a day crisis intervention and advocacy along with emergency food, clothing, and shelter to those in situations related to domestic violence and sexual assault.

Human Services
10
Dove House Advocacy Services

With wrap-around services, dove house seeks to address the needs of victimes of domestic violence, sexual assaultm and general crime in jefferson county as they navigate the many systems required to move from being victims to surviving and…

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11
Northeastern Utah Friends Against Family Violence

Friends Against Family Violence (FAFV) is a community based nonprofit domestic violence program. FAFV provides services, shelter, crisis intervention, and prevention in the Tri-County of Uintah, Duchesne, and Daggett. We provide services…

Health
12
Violence Free Crisis Line

To promote safety, independence, and empowerment for survivors of intimate partner violence and sexual assault.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Against Abuse Inc; the most unlike its peers is Street Law Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
20/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES: $8,292,521 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICESSOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL AID INC: $7,509,477 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL AID INCWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,608,959 · Crime & LegalWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE+5 more: $722,859 · Crime & LegalDNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,932,568 · OtherDNA PEOPLE…AZ Coalition to end violence: $135,614 · OtherAZ Coaliti…+3 more: $39,608 · OtherSOJOURNER CENTER: $270,007 · Human ServicesTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $248,880 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $247,923 · Human ServicesAGAINST ABUSE INC: $196,683 · Human ServicesKINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $160,337 · Human ServicesArizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc: $123,024 · Human ServicesCOLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SERVICES: $47,067 · Human Services+3 more: $64,096 · Human ServicesVERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY: $124,939 · Community ImprovementSTREET LAW INC: $7,960 · Community ImprovementTIME OUT INC: $117,359 · Housing & ShelterMt Graham Safe House Inc: $105,666 · Health
Crime & Legal$18,133,816Other$2,107,790Human Services$1,358,017Community Improvement$132,899Housing & Shelter$117,359Health$105,666

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES: $8,292,521 over 8y, 26% of budgetSOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL AID INC: $7,509,477 over 8y, 28% of budgetDNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC: $1,932,568 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetWILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE: $1,608,959 over 8y, 64% of budgetFLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC: $476,485 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSOJOURNER CENTER: $270,007 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE: $248,880 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $247,923 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAGAINST ABUSE INC: $196,683 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetKINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE: $160,337 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetStep Up To Justice: $154,700 over 6y, 10% of budgetVERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY: $124,939 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetArizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc: $123,024 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTIME OUT INC: $117,359 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetMt Graham Safe House Inc: $105,666 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER: $59,514 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCOLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SERVICES: $47,067 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetHOPE AMERICA INC: $32,193 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetDEFENDERS OF CHILDREN: $25,900 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetArizona Legal Women and Youth Services: $25,200 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSOCIAL SERVICES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL OF LAKE HAVASU CITY INC: $14,283 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTREET LAW INC: $7,960 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLegal Services for Crime Victims in Arizona: $6,960 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAlices Place Inc: $6,003 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ARIZONA LEGAL AID INC ↗
  • Who funds DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM E MORRIS INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SOJOURNER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TUCSON CENTERS FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN INC DBA EMERGE CENTER AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds AGAINST ABUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds KINGMAN AID TO ABUSED PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds Step Up To Justice ↗
  • Who funds VERDE VALLEY SANCTUARY ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc ↗
  • Who funds TIME OUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Mt Graham Safe House Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND FAMILY HELP CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO RIVER REGIONAL CRISIS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds HOPE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEFENDERS OF CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Arizona Legal Women and Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL SERVICES INTERAGENCY COUNCIL OF LAKE HAVASU CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds STREET LAW INC ↗
  • Who funds Legal Services for Crime Victims in Arizona ↗
  • Who funds Alices Place Inc ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Arizona Community Fou…Arizona Coalition to …Arizona Foundation fo…United Way of Norther…St Mary's Food Bank A…Arizona Eastern Star …Arizona Food Bank Net…Mary Kay Ash Foundati…Community Foundation …America's CharitiesThe Allstate Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…
Arizona Community FoundationAZ34.6× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Inc · Arizona Foundation for Women Inc · United Way of Northern Arizona Inc · St Mary's Food Bank Alliance · Arizona Eastern Star Foundation · Arizona Food Bank Network · Mary Kay Ash Foundation · Community Foundation for Southern Arizona · America's Charities · The Allstate Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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