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Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services

Pennsylvania legal aid network, inc. Is a client-centered organization that provides leadership, funding, and support to improve the availability and quality of civil legal aid and direct legal services for low income people and victims of domestic violence in pennsylvania.

$47M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
12
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,636,443
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,569,709
Organizations funded a year
12 to 13
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$7.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$47M0%
FY202412$38M0%
FY202313$37M0%
FY202213$34M0%
FY202113$37M0%
FY202013$31M0%
FY201913$24M0%
FY201813$22M0%
100% 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$289M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Legal Services Inc$67,895,167953%
Midpenn Legal Services$46,460,377956%
North Penn Legal Services$37,276,644963%
Neighborhood Legal Services Association$28,690,534955%
Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc$26,310,379951%
Northwestern Legal Services$13,700,879972%
Summit Legal Services$12,544,3399n/a
Regional Housing Legal Services$11,798,177948%
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project$10,438,984995%
Pennsylvania Health Law Project$10,114,967974%
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All grantees of Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Community Legal Services Inc$67,895,167953%
Midpenn Legal Services$46,460,377956%
North Penn Legal Services$37,276,644963%
Neighborhood Legal Services Association$28,690,534955%
Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc$26,310,379951%
Northwestern Legal Services$13,700,879972%
Summit Legal Services$12,544,3399n/a
Regional Housing Legal Services$11,798,177948%
Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project$10,438,984995%
Pennsylvania Health Law Project$10,114,967974%
Laurel Legal Services Inc$8,727,759799%
Community Justice Project$7,792,601965%
Friends of Farmworkers Inc$7,309,802939%

Where it is load-bearing

Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 12 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCommunity Legal Services Inc: $67,895,167 over 9y, 53% of budgetMidpenn Legal Services: $46,460,377 over 9y, 56% of budgetNorth Penn Legal Services: $37,276,644 over 9y, 63% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services Association: $28,690,534 over 9y, 55% of budgetLegal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania Inc: $26,310,379 over 9y, 51% of budgetNorthwestern Legal Services: $13,700,879 over 9y, 72% of budgetRegional Housing Legal Services: $11,798,177 over 9y, 48% of budgetPennsylvania Institutional Law Project: $10,438,984 over 9y, 95% of budgetPennsylvania Health Law Project: $10,114,967 over 9y, 74% of budgetLaurel Legal Services Inc: $8,727,759 over 7y, 99% of budgetCommunity Justice Project: $7,792,601 over 9y, 65% of budgetFriends of Farmworkers Inc: $7,309,802 over 9y, 39% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 12.

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.

Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts BoardPA30.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services

How much does Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services give?
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services reported 12 grants totaling $47,003,253 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%).
Who are Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Community Legal Services Inc ($68M), Midpenn Legal Services ($46M), North Penn Legal Services ($37M).
Does Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board, Legal Services Corporation, Independence Foundation.
Where is Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services based?
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services is based in PA.

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 13 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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