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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation

To promote the need for equal access to the justice system and provide legal assistance to those who cannot afford. Also, to raise and manage funds for Legal Services Corp.

$250k
Granted FY2021
1
Grants FY2021
1
Organizations funded FY2021
100%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$250,000
Largest grant, FY2021
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 100% of the organizations Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
Crime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20211$250k100%
FY20203$148k100%
FY20191$98k100%
FY20183$234k100%
FY20172$145kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Crime & Legal$875k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Services Corporation$250,00010%
Legal Services of North Florida Inc$97,74112%
Legal Services of the Virgin Islands Inc$87,88714%
Oficina Legal de la Comunidad Inc$83,0041n/a
Neighborhood Legal Services Program of DC$77,57213%
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation$67,57211%
Puerto Rico Legal Services Inc$63,4741n/a
Michigan Indian Legal Services$49,40117%
Anishinabe Legal Services$49,40114%
American Samoa Legal Aid Inc$49,401110%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLegal Services Corporation: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Services of North Florida Inc: $97,741 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLegal Services of the Virgin Islands Inc: $87,887 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services Program of DC: $77,572 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetThe District of Columbia Bar Foundation: $67,572 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMichigan Indian Legal Services: $49,401 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetAnishinabe Legal Services: $49,401 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAmerican Samoa Legal Aid Inc: $49,401 over 1y, 9.6% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Legal Services Corpor…Amazonsmile Foundation
Legal Services CorporationDC22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legal Services Corporation · 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.

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Find your warmest path to Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation

How much does Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation give?
Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation reported 1 grants totaling $250,000 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
What does Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2021, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2021: Legal Services Corporation ($250k), Legal Services of North Florida Inc ($98k), Legal Services of the Virgin Islands Inc ($88k).
Does Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legal Services Corporation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation based?
Friends Of The Legal Services Corporation is based in DC.

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 10 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $156 of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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