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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.

$99k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
40%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$22M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Legal Aid Justice Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Public BenefitCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesCrime & 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
FY2025still arriving3$98k0%
FY20245$106k40%
FY20233$78k33%
FY20224$89k25%
FY20216$147k83%
FY20191$322kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Civil Rights$474kEducation$153kPublic Benefit$80kYouth Development$55kHuman Services$31kCrime & Legal$30kEnvironment$15k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$336,53922%
The Commonwealth Institute for$213,35052%
Virginia Organizing Inc$96,00030%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond$55,00021%
Tenants and Workers United$48,50052%
Facets Cares Inc$30,61210%
Nolef Turns$30,00014%
I Vote For Me$13,5001n/a
League of Women Voters$7,0001n/a
Virginia Education Association$7,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Legal Aid Justice Center supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $336,539 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Commonwealth Institute for: $213,350 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetVirginia Organizing Inc: $96,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Metro Richmond: $55,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTenants and Workers United: $48,500 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFacets Cares Inc: $30,612 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNolef Turns: $30,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetVirginia Education Association: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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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About Legal Aid Justice Center

How much does Legal Aid Justice Center give?
Legal Aid Justice Center reported 3 grants totaling $98,604 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Legal Aid Justice Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (57%), Education (18%), Public Benefit (10%).
Who are Legal Aid Justice Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($337k), The Commonwealth Institute for ($213k), Virginia Organizing Inc ($96k).
Does Legal Aid Justice Center fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Aid Justice Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Legal Aid Justice Center based?
Legal Aid Justice Center is based in VA.

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

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