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New York Legal Assistance Group Inc

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$2.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$753k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$5.4MCommunity Improvement$1.2MHuman Services$829kEducation$328kHousing & Shelter$170kScience & Tech$29kInternational$23kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $767k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.5M
$108,290
Median grant
1
States reached
$94M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNLOCAL$753,213
MAKE THE ROAD NEW YORK$500,000
AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER$273,892
MASA$245,443
ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK$148,084
ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN$112,475
NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYER'S ASSOCIATION$108,290
CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES$100,000
CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC$53,139
ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC$10,182
THE WEINBERG CENTER FOR ELDER JUSTICE$10,000
VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC$8,823
GARDEN OF HOPE INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ARIVA INC: $56k → 28%ARIVA INC: $42k → 28%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $148k → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $129k → 20%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $111k → 20%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $50k → 20%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $274k → 17%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $94k → 20%AFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER: $155k → 17%CENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $32k → 20%UNLOCAL: $753k → 17%ARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $55k → 20%UNLOCAL: $721k → 17%UNLOCAL: $420k → 17%UNLOCAL: $120k → 17%UNLOCAL: $114k → 17%Unlocal Inc: $80k → 17%Chinese-American Planning Council Inc: $132k → 17%Chinese-American Planning Council Inc: $121k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $88k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $65k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $53k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $51k → 17%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $51k → 17%Chinese-American Planning Council Inc: $43k → 17%Chinese-American Planning Council Inc: $14k → 17%Violence Intervention Program Inc: $14k → 17%Violence Intervention Program Inc: $14k → 17%Violence Intervention Program Inc: $13k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $11k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $10k → 17%Violence Intervention Program Inc: $10k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $10k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $9k → 17%VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM INC: $9k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.9M · 17 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
4

Total granted

$7.9M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+139%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • UI
    UNLOCAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +225%
  • AJ
    ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $815k · revenue +90%
  • NY
    NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $664k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FAN FOX AND LESLIE R SAMUELS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue +139%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $26k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF THE ROCKAWAY PENINSULA INC C/O RACHEL BRYKS
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +5%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Manhattan Legal Services

Manhattan legal services is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.

Crime & Legal
2
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc

Please see schedule o for full mission statement

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3
New York Justice for Our Neighbors

Immigration law & justice new york welcomes immigrants into our communities with compassion dignity and love by providing free high-quality immigration legal services offering education to communities of faith and the public and engaging…

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4
Co-Counsel Nyc Inc

To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Services Nyc

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…

Crime & Legal
6
Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc

Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.

Crime & Legal
7
Brooklyn Legal Services Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
8
Latino Americanos Unidos Del Bronx Ny Inc
Human Services
9
Lsny-Bronx Corporation

Legal services nyc-bronx is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.

Education
10
Caaav Voice Inc

CAAAV Voice is a grassroot organization aiming to empower Asian immigrant communities by organizing against gentrification, tenant rights and promote social justice.

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11
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…

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12
Prisoners' Legal Services of New York Inc

To provide high quality, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners, to help them to secure their civil and human rights, and to advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Migration Services Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Fan Fox and Leslie R Samuels Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
18/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNLOCAL INC: $2,207,558 · Human ServicesUNLOCAL INCCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $618,496 · Human ServicesCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INCARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $537,391 · Human ServicesARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INCAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $428,795 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC+4 more: $335,764 · Human Services+4 moreMake the Road New York: $1,474,966 · Crime & LegalMake the Road New YorkACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC: $814,658 · Crime & LegalACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INCNEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $663,756 · OtherNEW YORK COUN…CATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC: $167,257 · OtherCATHOLIC MIGR…NEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $66,920 · OtherNEW YORK ASIA…+4 more: $76,420 · Other+4 moreMASA-MEXED INC: $327,856 · EducationNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION: $170,008 · Housing & ShelterTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $57,500 · Community ImprovementSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC: $22,703 · InternationalTHE HARRY AND JEANETTE WEINBERG FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$4,128,004Crime & Legal$2,289,624Other$974,353Education$327,856Housing & Shelter$170,008Community Improvement$57,500International$22,703Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNLOCAL INC: $2,207,558 over 6y, 17% of budgetMake the Road New York: $1,474,966 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC: $814,658 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetNEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION: $663,756 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL INC: $618,496 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetARAB AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $537,391 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITIES TOGETHER INC: $428,795 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetMASA-MEXED INC: $327,856 over 3y, 10% of budgetNEW DESTINY HOUSING CORPORATION: $170,008 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCATHOLIC MIGRATION SERVICES INC: $167,257 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetViolence Intervention Program: $101,070 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetARIVA INC: $98,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $81,694 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetNEW YORK ASIAN WOMEN'S CENTER INC: $66,920 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARAB-AMERICAN FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER INC: $57,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGARDEN OF HOPE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FAN FOX AND LESLIE R SAMUELS FOUNDATION INC: $28,665 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN SURVIVORS INC: $22,703 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF THE ROCKAWAY PENINSULA INC C/O RACHEL BRYKS: $11,238 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

Robin Hood FoundationThe Hyde and Watson F…Brooklyn Community Fo…Mother Cabrini Health…The New York Communit…New York Women's Foun…Hispanic Federation I…Open Society InstituteImmigrant Justice Cor…New York Immigration …Asian American Coalit…Asian American Federa…
Robin Hood FoundationNY27.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Robin Hood Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Hispanic Federation Inc · Open Society Institute · Immigrant Justice Corps Inc · New York Immigration Coalition Inc · Asian American Coalition for Children and Families Inc · Asian American Federation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization New York Legal Assistance Group Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New York Legal Assistance Group Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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