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LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC
To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.
$57M
Granted FY2024
10
Grants
1
Communities
$18M
Largest
01What you fund
0173% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Crime & Legal$208MHealth$2.2MHuman Services$47kOther$77M
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
subgrant filing
2019
subgrant filing
2020
subgrant filing
2021
subgrant supplementalsupplemental filing
2022
subgrant supplementalsupplemental filingaoc housinghousing stabilitystability fiscalfiscal reliefintern aoc
2023
basic ioltaiolta eatceatc subgrantsubgrant hudhud filingaoc housinghousing stability
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 10 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $250k+9 grants · $57M
$4,433,356
Median grant
1
States reached
$90M
Total assets
Largest grants
- SOUTH JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES$18,205,523
- NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES$13,409,726
- CENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES$10,141,759
- ESSEX-NEWARK LEGAL SERVICES$5,127,942
- LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY$4,433,356
- AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$3,840,448
- RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY$1,062,646
- SETON HALL$934,876
- COMMUNITY HEALTH LAW PROJECT$335,798
- ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY$6,460
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$287M · 10 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
10
0
Total granted
$287M
$0
Still filing today
80%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Crime & LegalHealthHuman ServicesOther
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
- SJSOUTH JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $90M · revenue +114% · 91% of their budget
- NNNORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $67M · revenue +27% · 92% of their budget
- CJCENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $50M · revenue +98% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Legal Services of New Jersey Inc
To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.
Crime & Legal
2
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in
Volunteer Lawyers for Justice, Inc. ("VLJ"/ the Organization), a non-profit organization incorporated in the State of New Jersey, is a comprehensive, statewide legal services program based in Newark. VLJ's mission is to ensure access to…
Crime & Legal
3
League of Women Voters of New Jersey
A nonpartisan organization empowering voters and defending democracy.
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4
New Jersey Civil Justice Reform
State's leading organization advocating for the business community on matters of law and legal policy. to promote a fair and predictable civil justice system, and defend the value of the rule of law in protecting innovation and fostering…
Community Improvement
5
Legal Services Corp of Delaware
Provision of legal services.
Crime & Legal
6
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. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Crime & Legal
7
Legal Services of Central New York Inc
Legal services of central new york (lscny)is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty for low-income families and…
Crime & Legal
8
Lsny-Bronx Corporation
Legal services nyc-bronx is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
Education
9
Manhattan Legal Services
Manhattan legal services is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
Crime & Legal
10
Volunteer Up Legal Clinic
Volunteer up legal clinics mission is to uplift and empower communities of south jersey through legal representation, advocacy, and community awareness, with the vision that all communities of south jersey will have access to quality legal…
Crime & Legal
11
Brooklyn Legal Services Inc
Brooklyn legal services, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
Crime & Legal
12
Legal Services for Maine Elders
Provide free legal services to maine residents aged sixty and over and medicare advocacy services to anyone eligible for medicare.
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of Northwest Jersey Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seton Hall University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Crime & Legal$207,946,647Other$76,534,526Health$2,241,966Human Services$47,383
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 SOUTH JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ESSEX-NEWARK LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHWEST JERSEY ↗
- Who funds SETON HALL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN OF NEW JERSEY ↗
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.
Legal Services CorporationDC16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Legal Services Corporation · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Community Health Law Project Inc — 69% of income from government
- Central Jersey Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northeast New Jersey Legal Services Corporation — 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 221898061 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY LEGAL SERVICES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 92% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Legal Services of New Jersey Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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