How much does Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board give?

Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board reported 44 grants totaling $36,074,558 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

Who are Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services ($148M), Regional Housing Legal Services ($5.7M), Pennsylvania Bar Foundation ($3.2M).

Does Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Independence Foundation, Philadelphia Bar Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation.

Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board

Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board at a glance

· Public charity

Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board

Q: What does Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).

Q: Where is Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board based?

Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board is based in PA.

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$29M

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$197M

02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Recipient	Amount
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
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL	$177,800
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY CHARLES WIDGER SCHOOL OF LAW	$177,800
DREXEL UNIVERSITY THOMAS R KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW	$177,800
WIDENER UNIVERSITY COMMONWEALTH LAW SCHOOL	$177,800
DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW	$177,800

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$195M · 44 repeat orgs$75k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships: 41 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

$195M

$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+81%

Still filing today

93%

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

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

PL
PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL AID NETWORK INC FKA/ PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL SERVICES
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
PB
PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION
7× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +15% · 78% of their budget

Funded once

PB
PENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATIONgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +81%

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.

Philadelphia Bar Foundation

Promoting equal access to justice for all members of the community by strengthening the legal services system through unrestricted operating grants and technical assistance to legal aid non profits.

Crime & Legal

Women's Law Project

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 women's law…

Civil Rights

Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal

Montgomery Bar Association

The mission of the montgomery bar association is to promote professional excellence,facilitate access to justice and protect the integrity of hte legal system through service to our members and community. montgomery bar association…

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Pittsburgh Legal Diversity & Inclusion Coalition

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

Women's Center and Shelter Civil Law Project

To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.

Human Services

Defender Association of Philadelphia

Crime & Legal

Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association

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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Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

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

Employment

Allegheny County Bar Association

To empower our members; promote a just, accessible, and inclusive judicial system; and serve the community at large.

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Community Legal Aid Society Inc

Clasi provides free civil legal services to people with disabilities; people with low incomes; victims of housing discrimination; older citizens (60 and over); victims of domestic violence; and immigrant victims of crime, abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal

Prairie State Legal Services Inc

To provide or coordinate the delivery of high quality free civil legal services to low-income individuals, families and groups

Crime & Legal

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Penn Legal Services; 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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 47 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

44/44

Grantees still filing

39/44

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Crime & Legal$181,244,279Education$8,779,726Other$3,916,072Human Services$1,810,002Health$977,683

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

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.

Independence FoundationPA40.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Independence Foundation · Philadelphia Bar Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial Foundation · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Opportunity Foundation · The Barra Foundation Inc · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · The William Penn Foundation · Union Benevolent Association

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 Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

21report 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.

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