· Public charity
Bay Area Legal Services Inc
Bay area legal services (bals) is a regional, non-profit public interest law firm providing the highest quality legal counsel by assisting individuals and non-profit groups with limited access to legal services, resolving the legal problems of our clients, and preserving the independence, hope, and dignity of those we serve.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $363k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID (JALA) | $120,000 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA (LSNF) | $120,000 |
| COMMUNITY LAW PROGRAM INC | $63,120 |
| UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY | $60,000 |
| LEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INC | $43,319 |
| THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY | $24,840 |
| SUNRISE OF PASCO COUNTY | $21,711 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- JAJACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC6× · 2019–2024 · $540k · revenue +71%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $502k · revenue +136%
- CLCommunity Law Program Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- TRTHREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +38%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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To provide high quality legal representation to low income residents, abused spouses or children, and the elderly residing in escambia and santa rosa counties.
To advance economic opportunity and social justice through legal advocacy.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
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South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
Bay area legal services (bals) is a regional, non-profit public interest law firm providing the highest quality legal counsel by assisting individuals and non-profit groups with limited access to legal services, resolving the legal…
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The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of North Florida Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Law Program Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE OF PASCO INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELS OF SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc · The Florida Bar Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Bay Area Legal Services Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sunrise of Pasco Inc — 42% of income from government
- The Spring of Tampa Bay Inc — 33% of income from government
- United Way of Broward County Inc — 27% of income from government
- Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc — 10% of income from government
- Legal Aid of Manasota Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc — 1% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.