Maryland · Public charity
Maryland Legal Services Corporation
To ensure low-income marylanders have access to stable, efficient and effective civil legal assistance through the distribution of funds to nonprofit legal services organizations.
- $58M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 49
- Grants FY2025
- 44
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $192,788
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $29,372,141
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 44
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $55M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Maryland Legal Services Corporation 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; $227k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 48 | $58M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 44 | $48M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $31M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $23M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Legal Aid Bureau Inc | $77,157,967 | 9 | 49% |
| Community Legal Services of Prince George's County | $10,809,357 | 9 | 77% |
| Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $9,949,999 | 3 | 29% |
| Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc | $8,588,082 | 9 | 58% |
| Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc | $6,723,708 | 9 | 46% |
| Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc | $5,558,917 | 9 | 34% |
| Shore Legal Access Inc | $4,123,688 | 9 | 64% |
| Homeless Persons Representation Project Inc | $4,000,253 | 9 | 67% |
| Casa Inc | $3,519,383 | 9 | 5% |
| Public Justice Center Inc | $3,468,012 | 9 | 27% |
Show all 49 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Maryland Legal Services Corporation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 16 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Venable Foundation Inc · The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · The John J Leidy Foundation Inc · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Open Society Institute
How this is measured
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About Maryland Legal Services Corporation
- How much does Maryland Legal Services Corporation give?
- Maryland Legal Services Corporation reported 49 grants totaling $58,227,928 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 44 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Maryland Legal Services Corporation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (92%), Human Services (3%), Civil Rights (2%).
- Who are Maryland Legal Services Corporation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Legal Aid Bureau Inc ($77M), Community Legal Services of Prince George's County ($11M), Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition ($9.9M).
- Does Maryland Legal Services Corporation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Maryland Legal Services Corporation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Venable Foundation Inc, The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Inc, The Abell Foundation Inc.
- Where is Maryland Legal Services Corporation based?
- Maryland Legal Services Corporation is based in MD.
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