Massachusetts · Public charity
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp
The MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORPoration provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the bar, and the judiciary.
- $73M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $823,615
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $17,806,869
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 27
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $24M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp 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; $0 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 | 21 | $73M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $70M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 26 | $55M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $46M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $39M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $31M | 12% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $29M | 12% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $26M | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Boston Legal Services Inc | $98,417,304 | 9 | 53% |
| Community Legal Aid Inc | $87,685,604 | 9 | 69% |
| South Coastal Counties Legal Services Inc | $54,186,408 | 9 | 66% |
| Northeast Legal Aid | $49,445,030 | 9 | n/a |
| Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Inc | $41,777,505 | 9 | 78% |
| Metrowest Legal Services Inc | $16,648,685 | 9 | 64% |
| Disability Law Center Inc | $8,221,656 | 9 | 29% |
| Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc | $5,148,284 | 9 | 57% |
| Center for Public Representation Inc | $4,801,276 | 9 | 71% |
| De Novo Center for Justice and Healing | $4,501,855 | 9 | 20% |
Show all 28 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 10 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: Boston Bar Foundation · Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Barr Foundation · The Clowes Fund Incorporated · Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation · The Fish Family Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp
- How much does Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp give?
- Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp reported 21 grants totaling $72,589,416 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Boston Legal Services Inc ($98M), Community Legal Aid Inc ($88M), South Coastal Counties Legal Services Inc ($54M).
- Does Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Bar Foundation, Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp based?
- Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp is based in MA.
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