· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
- $250k+17 grants · $72M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $17,806,869 |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID | $16,225,884 |
| SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES | $10,001,652 |
| NORTHEAST LEGAL AID | $9,143,292 |
| MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE | $7,959,472 |
| METRO WEST LEGAL SERVICES | $3,345,061 |
| DISABILITY LAW CENTER | $1,458,405 |
| CHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS | $916,066 |
| DENOVO | $909,722 |
| PRISONERS LEGAL SERVICES | $865,724 |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC REPRESENTATION | $823,615 |
| PAIR PROJECT | $601,318 |
| CENTER FOR LAW AND EDUCATION | $567,176 |
| NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER | $478,400 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN | $442,201 |
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 (FY18–25, $4.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +159% since the first grant, against +93% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 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
Backed again, and grew
- GBGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $98M · revenue +120% · 53% of their budget
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC9× · 2017–2025 · $88M · revenue +213% · 69% of their budget- SCSOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $54M · revenue +190% · 66% of their budget
Funded once
LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +93%
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.
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How this is measured
27 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. 27 of the 28 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
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 GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR PUBLIC REPRESENTATION INC ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAW AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT OF THE BOSTON BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO PRESENTE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds Brazilian Worker Center Inc ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp. Bigger dots raise more.
- Lawrence Family Development Inc: 100% of income from government
- Victim Rights Law Center Inc: 89% of income from government
- Disability Law Center Inc: 57% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc: 52% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc: 16% of income from government
- Essex County Community Organization: 15% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc: 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc: 5% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc: 2% of income from government
- National Consumer Law Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Justice at Work Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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