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Center for Land Reform Inc Dba Center for Community Progress

To foster strong, equitable communities where vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties are transformed into assets for neighbors and neighborhoods.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$238k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
$86,250
Median grant
11
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Legal Aid of North Carolina$238,251
Wake Forest University$223,553
Southeast Louisiana Legal Ser$209,992
Housing Assistance Council$200,000
Asset Funders Network$150,000
Legal Services of Greater Mia$86,250
Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Se$86,250
Legal Services of Eastern Mis$86,175
Center for Heirs Property Pr$85,000
Affordable Housing Centers of$75,000
Middle Georgia Access to Just$56,250
Centro de Apoyo Familiar$45,000
02The need
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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 (FY25–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%Centro de Apoyo Familiar: $45k → 10%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 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.

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Ohio Legal Help

Ohio legal help leverages technology and innovation to improve justice and fairness for all ohioans. our work removes barriers to the law so that all ohioans can understand their legal options, make informed decisions and connect to legal…

Crime & Legal
2
Oregon Law Center

To achieve justice for the low income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.

Crime & Legal
3
Illinois Legal Aid Online

Illinois legal aid online (ilao) opens opportunities for justice by educating illinoisans about their rights and connecting them to lawyers, solutions, and each other, especially people for whom the legal system was not designed. through…

Crime & Legal
4
Central Minnesota Legal Services

The mission of central minnesota legal services is to advocate for access to the civil justice system for low income people by providing high quality legal services and to improve the lives of people living in poverty by empowering…

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5
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
6
Acadiana Legal Service Corporation

The mission of acadiana legal services corporation is to provide exceptional civil legal services by advocating for fairness, protection, and justice. our vision for the state is for these services to be easy and timely accessible.

Crime & Legal
7
Regional Housing Legal Services

We work alongside communities in the fight to create and protect safe, affordable homes. we provide legal representation for groups serving those with low incomes, share knowledge, unite partners, and advocate for policy changes.

Crime & Legal
8
Bay Area Legal Aid

Baylegal provides free civil legal services to low-income residents of san francisco bay area to address legal barriers to housing, healthcare, personal safety, financial independence and stability so to escape poverty.

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9
Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada

Lacsn's mission is the preservation of access to justice and the provision of quality legal counsel, advice and representation for individuals who are unable to protect their rights because they cannot afford an attorney.

Civil Rights
10
Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) seeks to achieve equal justice for low-income people.

Crime & Legal
11
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc

Advocates for basic legal equality, inc. (able) is a non-profit law firm that provides high quality legal assistance in civil matters to help eligible low-income individuals and groups in western ohio achieve self-reliance, and equal…

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12
Lone Star Legal Aid

Lone star legal aid's ("lsla") mission is to protect and advance the civil legal rights of the millions of texans living in poverty by providing free advocacy, legal representation, and community education that ensures equal access to…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

12 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
12/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC: $238,251 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INCSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP: $209,992 · Crime & LegalSOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORPMARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC: $86,250 · Crime & LegalMARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INCLegal Services of Greater Miami Inc: $86,250 · Crime & LegalLegal Services of Greater Miami IncLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC: $86,175 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INCCenter for Heirs' Property Preservation: $85,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Heirs' Property PreservationMIDDLE GEORGIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COUNCIL INC: $56,250 · Crime & LegalMIDDLE GEORGIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COUNCIL INCWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $223,553 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIV…HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL: $200,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ASSIST…ASSET FUNDERS NETWORK: $150,000 · PhilanthropyASSET FUNDE…AFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 · OtherCENTRO DE APOYO FAMILIAR: $45,000 · Human Services
Crime & Legal$848,168Education$223,553Housing & Shelter$200,000Philanthropy$150,000Other$75,000Human Services$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $223,553 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL: $200,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetASSET FUNDERS NETWORK: $150,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC: $86,250 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAFFORDABLE HOUSING CENTERS OF PENNSYLVANIA: $75,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMIDDLE GEORGIA ACCESS TO JUSTICE COUNCIL INC: $56,250 over 1y, 9.5% 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.

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 12 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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