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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.

$436k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
5
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$9.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Legal Services Alabama Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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 arriving7$436k14%
FY20245$275k0%
FY20236$310k0%
FY20227$440k14%
FY20216$389k17%
FY20205$350k0%
FY20195$350k0%
FY20185$350k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$3.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res$615,0009n/a
South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program$615,000920%
Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program$615,000936%
Montgomery County Bar Foundation$600,000932%
Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc$495,000715%
West Mid Alabama Community Devel Co$152,7804n/a
Board of the University of Alabama$126,6073n/a
Auburn University$30,3501n/a

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.

Alabama Law Foundation IncAL15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alabama Law Foundation Inc · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc · South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program · 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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About Legal Services Alabama Inc

How much does Legal Services Alabama Inc give?
Legal Services Alabama Inc reported 7 grants totaling $435,941 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Legal Services Alabama Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Legal Services Alabama Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res ($615k), South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program ($615k), Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program ($615k).
Does Legal Services Alabama Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Services Alabama Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Alabama Law Foundation Inc, Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc.
Where is Legal Services Alabama Inc based?
Legal Services Alabama Inc is based in AL.

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 8 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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