· Public charity
Legal Services NYC
LEGAL SERVICES NYC is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $711k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID SOCIETY | $1,075,836 |
| MET COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY | $587,724 |
| CENTER FOR DISABILITY ADVOCACY RIGHTS | $185,676 |
| NEW SETTLEMENT APARTMENTS | $169,699 |
| URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE BOARD INC | $149,628 |
| COMMUNITY VOICES HEARD | $105,113 |
| FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORP | $100,781 |
| MET COUNCIL RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL FUND INC | $49,388 |
| HOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC | $34,764 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $588k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $622k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TLTHE LEGAL AID SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +44%
- UHURBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +125%
- NSNEW SETTLEMENT COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORP6× · 2019–2024 · $940k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- NBNorthwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +125%
- JIJustFix Incone grant, 2019 · $9k · revenue -50%
- PBPRO BONO NET INCone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue +16%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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How this is measured
12 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.
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.
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOMESTEADING ASSISTANCE (U-HAB) INC ↗
- Who funds NEW SETTLEMENT COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORP ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISABILITY ADVOCACY RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN NEW YORK COORDINATING COUNCIL ON JEWISH POVERTY ↗
- Who funds Met Council Research & Education Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Voices Heard Inc ↗
- Who funds FLATBUSH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOUSING COURT ANSWERS INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Bronx Community and Clergy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds JustFix Inc ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO NET INC ↗
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: North Star Fund Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Fund for the City of New York Inc · New York Foundation · The Ford Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Legal Services NYC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Legal Services NYC. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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