· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k3 grants · $120k
- $50k–250k25 grants · $2.7M
- $250k+21 grants · $55M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARYLAND LEGAL AID | $29,372,141 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERV OF PG | $4,158,998 |
| PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER | $3,899,690 |
| CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS RIGHTS COALITION | $3,300,000 |
| MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE | $1,964,415 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS MD | $1,712,263 |
| SHORE LEGAL ACCESS | $1,356,825 |
| CASA DE MARYLAND | $1,274,850 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MD | $1,216,176 |
| PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER | $1,040,230 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS | $909,790 |
| WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD | $884,543 |
| HOMELESS PERSONS REPRES PROJ | $761,624 |
| HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND | $666,484 |
| HARFORD COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION | $657,833 |
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 (FY22–25, $9.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% 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 +58% since the first grant, against +47% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +259% · 77% of their budget
- CACAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION3× · 2023–2025 · $9.9M · revenue +18% · 29% of their budget
- PBPRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $8.6M · revenue +498% · 58% of their budget
Funded once
- AIAnnapolis Immigration Justice Network Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $48k · revenue +47%
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.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
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.
The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center provides free legal services through pro bono lawyers to low-income individuals, nonprofit organizations and small businesses primarily in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center also recruits and trains…
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 ensure low-income marylanders have access to stable, efficient and effective civil legal assistance through the distribution of funds to nonprofit legal services organizations.
Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…
Clasi provides free civil legal services to people with disabilities; people with low incomes; victims of housing discrimination; older citizens (60 and over); victims of domestic violence; and immigrant victims of crime, abuse and neglect.
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
Virginia poverty law center uses advocacy, education, and litigation to break down systemic barriers that keep low-income virginians in the cycle of poverty.
Baltimore Action Legal Team is dedicated to pursuing creative, community-driven solutions and movement-oriented lawyering to support the Baltimore community.
Our mission is to provide quality representation and zealous advocacy to each client, to conduct our work with professionalism and dignity, and to promote improvement in the administration of justice.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
How this is measured
51 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 LEGAL AID BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND VOLUNTEER LAWYERS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PERSONS REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S LAW CENTER OF MD INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BAR FOUNDATION OF HARFORD CO MD INC ↗
- Who funds MONTGOMERY COUNTY MARYLAND BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLEGANY LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATED CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BALTIMORE BAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FREESTATE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MARYLAND COALITION AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT ↗
- Who funds MID-SHORE COUNCIL ON FAMILY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds HEARTLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ST AMBROSE HOUSING AID CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AYUDA INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific American Legal ↗
- Who funds HOPEWORKS OF HOWARD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN MARYLAND CENTER FOR FAMILY ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds WHITMAN-WALKER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds CASA - CITIZENS ASSISTING AND SHELTERING THE ABUSED INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEXUAL ASSAULTSPOUSE ABUSE RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Maryland Legal Services Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Maryland Legal Services Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
- Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center: 53% of income from government
- Disability Rights Maryland Inc dba Maryland Disability Law Center Inc: 49% of income from government
- Casa - Citizens Assisting and Sheltering the Abused Inc: 35% of income from government
- Heartly House Inc: 33% of income from government
- Child Justice Inc: 33% of income from government
- Southern Maryland Center for Family Advocacy Inc: 33% of income from government
- Hopeworks of Howard County Inc: 29% of income from government
- Mid-Shore Council On Family Violence: 26% of income from government
- Life Crisis Center Inc: 24% of income from government
- Civil Justice Inc: 23% of income from government
- Baltimore Bar Foundation Inc: 23% of income from government
- Maryland Coalition Against Sexual Assault: 21% of income from government
- The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
- The Women's Law Center of Md Inc: 18% of income from government
- Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland Inc: 11% of income from government
- Associated Catholic Charities Inc: 10% of income from government
- Shore Legal Access Inc: 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
- Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc: 7% of income from government
- Public Justice Center Inc: 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Prince George's County: 4% of income from government
- University of Maryland Baltimore Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Sexual Assaultspouse Abuse Resource Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- Legal Aid Bureau Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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