· Public charity
Legal Services Corporation
The congress of the united states of america, in the declaration of purpose of the LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION act (lsc act), found that "there is a need to provide equal access to the system of justice in our nation for individuals who seek redress of grievances; "that there is a need to provide high quality legal assistance to those who…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC | $19,591,588 |
| LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC | $18,776,547 |
| LONE STAR LEGAL AID | $17,134,910 |
| PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC | $16,696,749 |
| LEGAL SERVICES NYC | $16,091,153 |
| LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS | $13,598,015 |
| GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM | $11,978,349 |
| CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC | $11,222,659 |
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $9,460,202 |
| NORTHWEST JUSTICE PROJECT | $9,411,518 |
| LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC | $8,681,644 |
| LEGAL AID CHICAGO | $8,543,968 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $8,480,917 |
| LEGAL AID FOUNDATION OF LOS ANGELES | $8,136,150 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $8,014,877 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
136 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TRTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC7× · 2018–2024 · $113M · revenue +30% · 39% of their budget
LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC7× · 2018–2024 · $109M · revenue +83% · 52% of their budget- LSLONE STAR LEGAL AID7× · 2018–2024 · $103M · revenue +43% · 53% of their budget
Funded once
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VA INCone grant, 2019 · $1.5M
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDone grant, 2018 · $172k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
To help low-income clients access the civil justice system by providing volunteer attorneys who donate free legal advice and representation, and by supporting and training those attorneys.
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
North suburban legal aid clinic's mission is to provide accessible, quality, equitable, free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, housing, and immigration to give low-income, at-risk community members access to justice and the…
Legal aid of manasota provides legal services at no or low cost to those in need by partnering with local lawyers.
Legal aid's mission is to 'make justice real' - in individual and systemic ways - for persons living in poverty in the district of columbia. in particular, legal aid provides civil legal assistance to individuals, families, and communities…
To provide and serve as a leader in the state of florida, to encourage the provision of high quality legal services for the poor and provide support and assistance to all providers of legal assistance to the poor throughout the state.
To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.
Legal assistance to low-income people
Provide respectful high quality legal advice, counsel, brief services and referral to low-income New Mexicans and help remove barriers to the civil justice system.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Oclc Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
135 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 135 of the 138 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTH CAROLINA INC ↗
- Who funds LONE STAR LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES NYC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RURAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Northwest Justice Project ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Eastern Michigan ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Legal Services ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF MID-FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Inland Counties Legal Services ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA RURAL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OREGON ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCAL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds ACADIANA LEGAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF WESTERN OHIO INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · Native American Rights Fund Inc · Montana Legal Services Association · West Tennessee Legal Services INC · National Legal Aid and Defender Association · AARP Foundation · Equal Justice America Inc · National Health Law Program Inc · California Changelawyers · California Access to Justice Commission
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Legal Services Corporation 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.
- Legal Services of North Florida Inc — 27% of income from government
- Bay Area Legal Services Inc — 14% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Legal Aid Services of Oregon — 10% of income from government
- Northeast Legal Aid Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Central Jersey Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Legal Services of Northwest Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
- Northeast New Jersey Legal Services Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Florida Rural Legal Services Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc — 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc — 0% of income from government
- Legal Services Corp of Delaware — 0% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.