How much did PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER grant in FY2025?

PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER reported 44 grants totaling $36,074,558 in its FY2025 IRS filing.

Where is PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER based?

PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER is based in PA.

PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER

Foundation Dossiers

· Public charity

PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to award grants for (a) the delivery of civil legal assistance to the poor and disadvantaged in pennsylvania by non-profit corporations described in section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code of 1986, as amended; (b) the delivery of civil legal assistance to the poor and disadvantaged in…

$36M

Granted FY2025

Grants

Communities

$29M

Largest

01What you fund

0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.

Crime & Legal$179MEducation$8.8MHuman Services$1.8MHealth$978kOther$6.2M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2021

records

2022

records

2023

records

2024

records

2025

records

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k5 grants · $156k
$50k–250k31 grants · $4.1M
$250k+8 grants · $32M

$140,400

Median grant

States reached

$129M

Total assets

Largest grants

PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL AID NETWORK INC$29,245,435
SENIORLAW CENTER$448,520
PENNSYLVANIA HIAS INDIGENT IMMIGRANT LEGAL SERVICES$408,265
PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION$393,613
PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER$355,226
JUSTICE AT WORK$331,200
COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT$314,250
FRANKLIN COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES$290,000
ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION$222,950
LEGAL SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTS & INTERNATIONALS$185,310
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW$177,800
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY CHARLES WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW$177,800
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF LAW$177,800
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL$177,800
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW$177,800

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$197M · 45 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$197M

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+57%

Still filing today

89%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesHealthOther

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

PL
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL AID NETWORK INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $148M · revenue +109% · 64% of their budget
RH
REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES
7× · 2018–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +114% · 37% of their budget
SENIORLAW CENTER
7× · 2018–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +80%

Funded once

PB
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +57%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal

Pittsburgh Legal Diversity & Inclusion

To create a culture of inclusion and highlight diversity successes and initiatives in the pittsburgh legal community; and to educate and assist pittsburgh area legal employers in increasing the hiring, retention, and inclusion of legal…

Crime & Legal

Pennsylvania Statewide Independent

To use our legal mandate to expand civil rights for individuals with disabilities.

Human Services

Neighborhood Legal Services Association

To meet the civil legal needs of the poor and vulnerable in our community through effective legal representation and education

Crime & Legal

Philadelphia University

To improve lives and provide students with exceptional value in 21st century professional education.

Education

Legal Aid of East Tennessee

Legal representation, counseling and other civil legal services for the indigent of tennessee

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Amistad Law Project

Amistad law project is a public interest law firm and organizing project working to end mass incareration in pennsylvania.

Crime & Legal

Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal

Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment

Legal Services Corp of Delaware

Provision of legal services.

Crime & Legal

Pennsylvania District Attorneys

It is the mission of the pennsylvania district attorneys association to assist the membership in the pursuit of justice and in all matters relating to the execution of their duties; advocate the position of the association to the…

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Women's Law Project

The women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of the…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midpenn Legal Services and the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. 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 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/47

the rest of the field

10%

2,918/30,410

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

36/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$178,977,428Education$8,779,726Other$6,182,923Human Services$1,810,002Health$977,683

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.

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.

Philadelphia Bar FoundationPA46.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Philadelphia Bar Foundation · Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Equal Justice Works · Union Benevolent Association · Legal Services Corporation · The Barra Foundation Inc

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 organisation PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~36 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232303925 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 36 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 78% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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Find your warmest path to Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer?

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PENNSYLVANIA INTEREST ON LAWYER

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer?

More from the funding graph