· Public charity
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services
Pennsylvania legal aid network, inc.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc Fka/ Pennsylvania Legal Services. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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