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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.

$453k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$120k
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$2.2MHuman Services$70k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $363k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Wheels of Success: $23k → 13%Wheels of Success: $22k → 13%Wheels of Success: $16k → 13%Wheels of Success: $9k → 13%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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 9 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +97% since the first grant, against +72% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
1

Total granted

$2.2M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+97%
+72%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Crime & LegalHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • JA
    JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $540k · revenue +97%
  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $502k · revenue +136%
  • CL
    Community Law Program Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $437k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • TR
    THREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +72%
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
Florida Legal Services Inc

To provide and serve as a leader in the state of florida, to encourage the provision of high quality legal services for the poor and provide support and assistance to all providers of legal assistance to the poor throughout the state.

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2
Northwest Florida Legal Services Inc

To provide high quality legal representation to low income residents, abused spouses or children, and the elderly residing in escambia and santa rosa counties.

Crime & Legal
3
Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc

To advance economic opportunity and social justice through legal advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc

Provides no-cost legal services to the most vulnerable in central florida, helping them protect their families, health, and livelihood.

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5
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
6
Legal Assistance of Dakota County Ltd

Legal representation of dakota county residents with financial need.

Crime & Legal
7
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…

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8
Legal Services Alabama Inc

Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.

Crime & Legal
9
Seminole Co Bar Assoc Legal Aid Society

Civil legal aid for economically disadvantaged persons; free legal service for qualified persons in Seminole County.

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10
South Carolina Legal Services

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
12
Legal Aid Society of Salt Lake

Promote safety, stability and self-sufficiency for low income families and individuals, as well as victims of domestic violence, through effective, efficient legal advocacy and assistance.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Three Rivers Legal Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

11 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC: $540,000 · OtherJACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INCLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $501,727 · OtherLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INCTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC: $254,708 · OtherTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC+3 more: $52,250 · OtherCommunity Law Program Inc: $436,623 · Crime & LegalCommunity Law Program IncLEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INC: $303,941 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INCSUNRISE OF PASCO INC: $91,976 · Housing & ShelterWHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $70,321 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $60,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,348,685Crime & Legal$740,564Housing & Shelter$91,976Human Services$70,321Philanthropy$60,000

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 budgetJACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC: $540,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTH FLORIDA INC: $501,727 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Law Program Inc: $436,623 over 8y, 16% of budgetLEGAL AID OF MANASOTA INC: $303,941 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetTHE SPRING OF TAMPA BAY INC: $254,708 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSUNRISE OF PASCO INC: $91,976 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetWHEELS OF SUCCESS INC: $70,321 over 4y, 10% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Palm Beach County Inc: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHREE RIVERS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,250 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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.

Florida Coalition Aga…The Florida Bar Found…The Bank of America C…Amazonsmile Foundation
Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence IncFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Florida Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc · The Florida Bar Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bay Area Legal Services Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Legal Services Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 11 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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