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MISSOURI LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION
To provide civil legal services to the poor, improve the administration of justice, and promote other programs for the benefit of the public as are specifically approved from time to time by the supreme court of missouri for exclusively public purposes.
$2.3M
Granted FY2024
7
Grants
1
Communities
$711k
Largest
01What you fund
0166% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2023–2024.
Crime & Legal$2.2MOther$1.1M
02FY2024 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $134k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $178k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
$177,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI$711,082
- LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI$641,465
- LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI$631,953
- MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES$177,500
- SPRINGFIELD BAR FOUNDATION$44,670
- KANSAS CITY BAR FOUNDATION$44,670
- ST LOUIS BAR FOUNDATION$44,670
02The need
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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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 15%. 100% of your 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.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 90% of MISSOURI LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; read by stated purpose it is 10% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
MISSOURI LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$3.4M · 7 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
0
Total granted
$3.4M
$0
Still filing today
100%
0%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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
- LALEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI8× · 2017–2024 · $997k · revenue +14%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI8× · 2017–2024 · $899k · revenue +100%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI8× · 2017–2024 · $886k · revenue +119%
Funded once
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.
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Kansas Bar Association
The association is dedicated to advancing the professionalism and legal skills of lawyers, providing services to its members, serving the community through advocacy of public policy issues, encouraging public understanding of the law and…
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2
Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program
To provide free legal services to low-income citizens of jefferson county
Crime & Legal
3
Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee
To provide civil legal assistance to low-income people and their families.
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4
Legal Aid of East Tennessee
Legal representation, counseling and other civil legal services for the indigent of tennessee
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5
The Kansas City Metropolitan Bar
Kcmba is a professional association dedicated to service to our members.
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6
Louisville Bar Center Inc
To promote the legal profession, the study of law, and provide law related benefits to the public.
Employment
7
Legal Aid Society of Story County
Legal assistance to low-income people
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8
Missouri Justice League
Provide legal services
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9
Lakeshore Legal Aid
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Crime & Legal
10
South Carolina Legal Services
To provide legal assistance to those involved in noncriminal proceedings who are unable to afford legal counsel
Crime & Legal
11
Kansas Bar Foundation
To foster, promote and maintain the honor, integrity and general welfare of the law profession.
Crime & Legal
12
Midpenn Legal Services
Provide civil legal services to low-income residents & survivors of domestic violence.
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jackson County Casa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Crime & Legal$2,237,243Other$1,148,332
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.
Missouri Bar FoundationMO16× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Missouri Bar Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 MISSOURI LAWYER TRUST ACCOUNT FOUNDATION 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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: SPRINGFIELD BAR FOUNDATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300069328 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 SPRINGFIELD 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
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 73% 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 Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation 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.
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