How much did MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION grant in FY2024?

MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION reported 44 grants totaling $47,743,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION based?

MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is based in MD.

MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

Foundation Dossiers Also receives grants — funding profile →

· 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.

$48M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$23M

Largest

01What you fund

0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.

Crime & Legal$77MHuman Services$6.3MPhilanthropy$1.6MEducation$743kCivil Rights$419kHousing & Shelter$318kHealth$186kInternational$50kOther$16M

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

2022

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2023

—

2024

child justiceprotective parents

2025

rfjunivchild justiceprotective parentslaw students

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

$10k–50k4 grants · $145k
$50k–250k20 grants · $2.1M
$250k+20 grants · $45M

$201,212

Median grant

States reached

$58M

Total assets

Largest grants

MARYLAND LEGAL AID$22,896,200
CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION$3,250,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERV OF PG$3,184,523
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER$2,391,456
MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE$2,059,648
DISABILITY RIGHTS MD$1,572,257
HOMELESS PERSONS REPRES PROJ$1,281,735
CASA DE MARYLAND$1,227,116
SHORE LEGAL ACCESS$1,217,971
PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER$987,056
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MD$923,870
WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD$704,067
EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS$666,666
HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND$647,072
MONTGOMERY CO BAR FOUNDATION$570,498

02The need

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 (FY22–24, $6.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 8%. 92% 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.

$102M · 39 repeat orgs$275k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$102M

$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+1074%

Still filing today

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $227k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCivil RightsHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

CL
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERV OF PG
7× · 2018–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +308% · 74% of their budget
CA
CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION
2× · 2023–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +431% · 29% of their budget
MV
MD VOLUNTEER LAWYERS' SERVICE
7× · 2018–2024 · $4.8M · revenue +131% · 46% of their budget

Funded once

IJ
IMMIGRATION JUSTICE NETWORKgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue +1074%

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.

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.

Crime & Legal

District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal

Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition Inc

Maryland Consumer Rights Coalition champions economic rights, equal opportunity, and housing justice through advocacy, research, and direct service.

Public Benefit

Sexual Violence Law Center

Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that provides free legal services protecting the privacy, safety, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and…

Human Services

Delaware Center for Justice

The delaware center for justice, inc. is the leading non-profit organization in delaware committed to transforming the quality of justice through advocacy, policy, and practice.

Crime & Legal

Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc

Virginia Legal Aid Society, Inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance.

Crime & Legal

Midpenn Legal Services

Provide civil legal services to low-income residents & survivors of domestic violence.

Crime & Legal

Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

To provide civil legal aid to individuals, families, and communities in the district of columbia who could not otherwise afford to hire a lawyer.

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The District of Columbia Bar Foundation

To fund, support, and improve legal representation of the disadvantaged in the district of columbia.

Crime & Legal

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

American Civil Liberties

The organization exists to empower marylanders to exercise their rights so that the law values and uplifts their humanity.

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Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Law Center of Md Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/48

the rest of the field

12%

4,873/39,804

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.

05the grantee network

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

46/48

Grantees still filing

42/48

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$76,740,064Other$15,793,440Human Services$6,313,083Philanthropy$1,621,061Education$743,068Civil Rights$418,982Housing & Shelter$317,702

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.

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.

Venable Foundation IncMD34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Venable Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · The Abell Foundation Inc · Zanvyl and Isabelle Krieger Fund Inc · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore · Open Society Institute · David & Barbara B Hirschhorn · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc

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 MARYLAND 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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: HARFORD COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~6 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 5.7× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 521722344 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 HARFORD COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 6 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 91% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Maryland Legal Services Corporation?

Find your warmest path to Maryland Legal Services Corporation 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.

MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maryland Legal Services Corporation?

More from the funding graph

MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

48 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Maryland Legal Services Corporation?

More from the funding graph