· Public charity
Neighborhood Legal Services Inc
Neighborhood legal services, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $44k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $144k
- $250k+5 grants · $2.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES WNY | $572,875 |
| WNY LAW CENTER | $474,850 |
| CENTER FOR ELDER LAW AND JUSTICE INC | $420,194 |
| ERIE COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION VOLUNTEER LAWYERS PROJECT | $415,938 |
| LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALO INC | $411,551 |
| THE RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $143,656 |
| EVERGREEN HEALTH SERVICES | $16,792 |
| VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT | $15,885 |
| VIA EVALUATION | $10,830 |
| UB CENTER FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH - ITTIC | $8,665 |
| CRISIS SERVICES | $7,156 |
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 (FY18–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 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
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
- ECErie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +160%
- WNWestern New York Law Center Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +42%
- CFCENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CACHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue -4%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The legal aid society of northeastern new york fights for fairness, dignity, and justice for those living in poverty and for a society which is inclusive and equitable for all. we transform lives, build community and empower people by…
Legal services of central new york (lscny) is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty.
Provide individual legal assistance, information referral, and legal advocacy to individuals with disabilities. drny is the designated protection and advocacy system for persons with disabilities in new york.
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Securing justice for, protecting the rights of and rendering legal assistance and representation to indigent residents and non-residents of westchester county.
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
The lawsuit reform alliance of new york (is a broad based coalition of hardworking new york business leaders,professionals and taxpayers who are committed to changing new york's burdensome and expensive legal system to help create more…
New york county defender services (nycds) is a not-for-profit corporation, incorporated under the laws of new york state. as such, many of its obligations are defined by law. nycds' purpose is to represent indigent persons in resolving…
To provide counseling and crisis intervention services to victims of sexual assault and other violent crimes and their significant others.
Brooklyn legal services, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Elder Law & Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Child and Family Services of Erie County. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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 Erie County Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project Inc ↗
- Who funds Western New York Law Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ELDER LAW & JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID BUREAU OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HOUSING RESOURCES FOR WNY INC ↗
- Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York ↗
- Who funds VIA VISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT ↗
- Who funds EHS INC ↗
- Who funds STARBRIDGE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ERIE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION & CRISIS SERVICE INC ↗
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: Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo Inc · The New York Bar Foundation · Evans Devereux Memorial Fund Ua 11 Uw Virginia Devereux · United Way of Buffalo and Erie County · The Frank G Raichle Foundation · First Niagara Foundation · Health Foundation for Western & Central New York · The Western New York Foundation · The John R Oishei Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · 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 organization Neighborhood Legal Services Inc 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.
- Civil Justice Inc — 23% 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.