· Public charity
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $61k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $375k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| SOUTH ALABAMA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| ALABAMA STATE BAR VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM | $75,000 |
| LAWYER REFERRAL AND INFORMATION SERVICE OF MADISON COUNTY | $75,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS BIRMINGHAM | $75,000 |
| WEST MID ALABAMA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION INC | $30,591 |
| AUBURN UNIVERSITY | $30,350 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 17%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMADISON COUNTY VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM9× · 2017–2025 · $615k · revenue +37% · 36% of their budget
- MCMONTGOMERY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +6% · 32% of their budget
- BVBIRMINGHAM VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROGRAM INC7× · 2017–2025 · $495k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- AUAUBURN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2025 · $30k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
5 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. 5 of the 8 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Legal Services Alabama Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legal Services Alabama Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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