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Montana Legal Services Association

To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings or matters to persons in the state of montana financially unable to afford legal assistance.

$2.8M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Itemized grants FY2024
19
Organizations funded FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.3M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$52,306
Largest grant, FY2024
$264,772
States reached, FY2024
19
Total assets, FY2024
$3.0M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$2.2M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Montana Legal Services Association supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational American Indian Court Judges Association: $264,772 over 1y, 24% of budgetTexas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc: $209,241 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc: $173,569 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetDna Peoples Legal Services Inc: $167,002 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLegal Aid of Nebraska: $160,782 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNew Mexico Legal Aid Inc: $151,842 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNevada Legal Services Inc: $124,263 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetIdaho Legal Aid Services Inc Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc: $112,776 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetUtah Legal Services Inc: $104,396 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAnishinabe Legal Services: $94,953 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetDakota Plains Legal Services: $93,511 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWisconsin Judicare Inc: $93,277 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetLegal Aid Services of Oregon: $92,349 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMichigan Indian Legal Services: $90,812 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetCalifornia Indian Legal Services Inc: $71,750 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAlaska Legal Services Corporation: $65,759 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNorthwest Justice Project: $48,894 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Aid of Wyoming Inc: $41,017 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetColorado Legal Services: $40,002 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLegal Services of North Dakota: $22,925 over 2y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

Legal Services CorporationDC45.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legal Services Corporation · Native American Rights Fund Inc · Equal Justice Works · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Montana Legal Services Association

How much does Montana Legal Services Association give?
Montana Legal Services Association reported 20 itemized grants totaling $1,280,179, out of $2,808,794 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Montana Legal Services Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Montana Legal Services Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: National American Indian Court Judges Association ($265k), Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc ($209k), Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc ($174k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Montana Legal Services Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legal Services Corporation, Native American Rights Fund Inc, Equal Justice Works.
Where is Montana Legal Services Association based?
Montana Legal Services Association is based in MT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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