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National Legal Aid and Defender Association
The national legal aid & defender association (nlada) works to promote and develop high quality, effective civil legal aid and public defense services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 28 grants below total $1,249,906 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,307,629 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $57,723 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k21 grants · $817k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $433k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 603 LEGAL AID | $72,086 |
| BAY AREA LEGAL AID | $70,905 |
| REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES | $66,641 |
| TULALIP FOUNDATION | $59,087 |
| MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE INCORPORATED | $57,201 |
| LEGAL AID OF WESTERN MISSOURI | $53,769 |
| CAMBA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $52,962 |
| PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC | $49,315 |
| NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER | $48,497 |
| APPALACHIAN RESEARCH AND DEFENSE FUND OF KENTUCKY | $46,775 |
| INDIANA LEGAL SERVICES INC | $45,300 |
| IDAHO LEGAL AID SERVICES | $45,080 |
| LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC | $42,149 |
| MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION | $41,964 |
| LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER | $41,472 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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.
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.
At legal aid chicago, we work together to provide high quality civil legal aid to people living in poverty and other vulnerable groups.through advocacy, education, collaboration, and litigation we empower individuals, protect fundamental…
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.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
Legal services alabama is a statewide nonprofit dedicated to providing access to justice and quality civil legal assistance to educate and empower alabama's low-income community.
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro…
To empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty within their communities by providing high quality civil legal services to the poor, seniors, and persons with disabilities in over twenty three counties in n.…
Legal aid of manasota provides legal services at no or low cost to those in need by partnering with local lawyers.
To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Legal Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bay Area Legal Aid. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 52 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 30 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds 603 LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Center For Legal Services Corporation ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds TULALIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds CAMBA LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE STATE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds Indiana Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds IDAHO LEGAL AID SERVICES INC IDAHO LEGAL AID SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR MAINE ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN STATE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds Western New York Law Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Lakeshore Legal Aid ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds UNITED JUSTICE COALITION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Legal Services Corporation · Equal Justice Works · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · West Tennessee Legal Services INC · National Health Law Program Inc · The Impact Fund · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 organization National Legal Aid and Defender Association 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.
- Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc — 13% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. 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.