· Public charity
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services
Pennsylvania legal aid network, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC | $10,569,709 |
| MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES | $7,351,972 |
| NORTH PENN LEGAL SERVICES INC | $6,386,232 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOC | $4,665,132 |
| LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PA INC | $4,556,538 |
| SUMMIT LEGAL SERVICES | $3,636,443 |
| NORTHWESTERN LEGAL SERVICES | $2,176,291 |
| PA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT | $1,869,306 |
| REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES | $1,862,983 |
| PA HEALTH LAW PROJECT | $1,525,504 |
| COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT | $1,276,160 |
| JUSTICE AT WORK | $1,126,983 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of your 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.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $68M · revenue +130% · 53% of their budget- MLMIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $46M · revenue +81% · 56% of their budget
- NPNORTH PENN LEGAL SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $37M · revenue +70% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
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.
Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.
The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
Civil justice for those in need, their homes secured, families protected, and finances fortified.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
Legal aid of east tennessee provides legal representation, legal education, and other civil legal services for the low-income population in our community through advocacy of all types.
Lawny increases access to justice through excellent legal representation, advocacy and service.
To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
To empower the poor to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty within their communities by providing high quality civil legal services to the poor, seniors, and persons with disabilities in over twenty three counties in n.…
To provide civil legal services to low-income individuals and to promote equal access to the justice system through advocacy, legal counseling, innovative self-help services, in depth legal representation, community education, and economic…
Enls provides free legal assistance on civil law matters to low income essex county, new jersey residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Penn Legal Services and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Farmworkers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MIDPENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NORTH PENN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOUSING LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA INSTITUTIONAL LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAUREL LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY JUSTICE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FARMWORKERS 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: Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board · Legal Services Corporation · Independence Foundation · Philadelphia Bar Foundation · Equal Justice Works · The Philadelphia Foundation · The Pittsburgh Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services 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.