· Public charity
Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation
To provide civil legal services to the poor, to improve the administration of justice; and to promote other programs for the benefit of the public as are approved by the supreme court of missouri.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k4 grants · $396k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI | $924,960 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI | $919,320 |
| LEGAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN MISSOURI | $755,760 |
| MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES | $219,960 |
| SPRINGFIELD BAR FOUNDATION | $58,668 |
| ST LOUIS BAR FOUNDATION | $58,668 |
| KANSAS CITY BAR FOUNDATION | $58,668 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 100% of its 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 90% of Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MO; by stated purpose, 10%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- LALegal Aid of Western Missouri9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +14%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +119%
- LSLegal Services of Southern Missouri9× · 2017–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +100%
Funded once
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.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
To provide civil legal services to the poor, to improve the administration of justice; and to promote other programs for the benefit of the public as are approved by the supreme court of missouri.
The association is dedicated to advancing the professionalism and legal skills of lawyers, promoting the interests of the legal profession, providing services to its members, advocating positions on law-related issues, encouraging public…
To provide free legal services to low-income citizens of jefferson county
To enforce, advance and defend the civil legal rights of low income and vulnerable people, especially on behalf of elderly, children, victims of domestic violence and persons with disabilities, by providing free, civil legal assistance to…
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
The primary purpose of legal aid services of oregon shall be to achieve justice for the low-income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.
Promotion, support, and coordination of activities to improve the legal system in Missouri through education, research and legislative reforms.
SLSLS provides victims of domestic violence the assistance they need in filing petitions for orders of protection and obtaining full orders of protection in court.
To be a public law firm that knows, as well as understands, the problems of even the poorest in our communities and addresses these problems through education, and with creative legal advocacy of the highest distinction. LSNM will be seen…
To raise and distribute funds in the form of grants to not for profit organizations in the Louisville area that provide legal services to the poor and disadvantaged, conduct programs to educate citizens about the law, and support…
To work in concert with the louisville bar association, to promote the legal profession and the study of law through continuing education for lawyers and improve the community through the provision of law-related benefits, including pro…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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 of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Southern Missouri ↗
- Who funds MID-MISSOURI LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KANSAS CITY METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPRINGFIELD METROPOLITAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
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: Missouri Bar Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Missouri Lawyer Trust Account Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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