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Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board
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…
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
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
| 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 |
| WIDENER UNIVERSITY COMMONWEALTH LAW SCHOOL | $177,800 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA CAREY LAW SCHOOL | $177,800 |
| DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW | $177,800 |
| DREXEL UNIVERSITY THOMAS R KLINE SCHOOL OF LAW | $177,800 |
| TEMPLE UNIVERSITY BEASLEY SCHOOL OF LAW | $177,800 |
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, $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 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.
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
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; $60k 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
- PLPENNSYLVANIA LEGAL AID NETWORK INC FKA/ PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL SERVICES7× · 2018–2025 · $148M · revenue +109% · 64% of their budget
- RHREGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES7× · 2018–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +114% · 37% of their budget
- PBPENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $3.2M · revenue +15% · 78% of their budget
Funded once
- PBPENNSYLVANIA BAR ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +81%
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.
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.
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…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
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…
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…
To provide civil legal services to women in crisis.
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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…
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
To empower our members; promote a just, accessible, and inclusive judicial system; and serve the community at large.
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.
To provide or coordinate the delivery of high quality free civil legal services to low-income individuals, families and groups
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Penn 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 47 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 PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL AID NETWORK INC FKA/ PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SENIORLAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS INC ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA IMMIGRATION RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds Pennsylvania HIAS Indigent Immigrant Legal Services ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education ↗
- Who funds WIDENER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT ↗
- Who funds DREXEL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTH PENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALLEGHENY COUNTY BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA VIP INC ↗
- Who funds KIDSVOICE ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR IMMIGRANTS AND INTERNATIONALS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE DISABLED ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds LACKAWANNA PRO BONO INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AGAINST ABUSE LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PUBLIC INTEREST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S CENTER AND SHELTER OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS ADVOCACY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA LAWYERS FOR SOCIAL EQUITY ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY ASSISTANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Support Center for Child Advocates ↗
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: 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
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 Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board 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.
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.
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