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LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER
Legal and related services to low-income clients and community groups to protect their rights and address systems that cause poverty.
$106k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
1
Communities
$48k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.
Environment$337kPublic Benefit$153kCommunity Improvement$66kYouth Development$55kArts & Culture$41kHuman Services$31kCrime & Legal$30kOther$28k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
social
2021
organizing
2022
subgrantresource equityequity fundersfunders collaborativecollaborative participation
2023
subgrant
2024
educationprofessionalsgrassrootsdemocraticallytenantsworkerseconomic
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $78k
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL$48,350
- VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC$30,000
- TENANTS & WORKERS UNITED$7,500
- LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF VIRGINIA$7,000
- VIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION$7,000
- VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC$6,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$652k · 5 repeat orgs$88k to everyone else
5 repeat relationships — 3 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
5
3
Total granted
$652k
$74k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+98%
+411%
Still filing today
100%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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
- SASOCIAL AND EVNIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS2× · 2019–2021 · $337k · revenue +490%
- CICOMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL4× · 2021–2024 · $153k · revenue +98%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND2× · 2021–2022 · $55k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- FCFACETS CARES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $31k · revenue +112%
- NTNOLEF TURN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue +411%
- IVI VOTE FOR ME INCone grant, 2022 · $14k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Virginia Interfaith Center for Public Policy
Working within the faith community to educate and mobilize citizen to create systemic social change for low income Virginians.
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2
Virginia Afl-Cio
The Virginia AFL-CIO monitors all legislation affecting the working people of Virginia. To keep the state's labor standards on a progressive track for all working people, we work to win the fight against passage of laws that would have a…
Employment
3
Virginia Center for Inclusive
VCIC works with schools, businesses, and communities to achieve success through inclusion.
Civil Rights
4
Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc
Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance.
Crime & Legal
5
Virginia Conservation Network
Support conservation in Virginia through public policy research, advocacy, education and capacity building for its member organizations.
Environment
6
New Virginia Majority
New Virginia Majority is a grassroots organization that empowers low income people and people of color in local communities through leadership development, trainings and workshops, issue education and advocacy, and voter education and…
Civil Rights
7
People Incorporated of Virginia
To provide opportunities for economically disadvantaged people to reach their goals in order to enhance their lives, their families, and their communities.
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8
Virginia Community Action
Virginia community action partnership (vacap) is the statewide membership association for virginia's thirty-one non-profit and public community action agencies. vacaps mission is to build the capacity and competencies of virginias…
Human Services
9
Aia Virginia
AIA Virginia is the voice of the architecture profession in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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10
Virginia Association of Community Banks
To provide undiluted advocacy, targeted education and quality collaboration for virginia's community banks.
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11
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values
To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.
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12
Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights
VACIR is a multi-racial and multi-ethnic coalition of organizations that exists to win dignity, power and quality of life for all immigrant and refugee communities.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Virginia Organizing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nolef Turns. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Environment$336,539Public Benefit$153,350Community Improvement$66,000Youth Development$55,000Arts & Culture$41,000Human Services$30,612Crime & Legal$30,000Other$27,500
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 SOCIAL AND EVNIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH INSTITUTE FOR FISCAL ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds TENANTS AND WORKERS UNITED ↗
- Who funds FACETS CARES INC ↗
- Who funds NOLEF TURN INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organisation LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NOLEF TURN INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 475341386 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NOLEF TURN INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Legal Aid Justice Center?
Find your warmest path to Legal Aid Justice Center through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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