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South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program

The South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program provides access to justice for low-income individuals by extending free civil legal services through the dedication of volunteer lawyers, empowering clients to navigate the justice system with dignity.

$7k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$6,524
Largest grant, FY2025
$6,524
Organizations funded a year
1 to 5
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$623k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’24
Crime & LegalPublic Safety & Disaster
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 arriving1$7k0%
FY20241$62k100%
FY20224$17k0%
FY20215$47k20%
FY20204$32k25%
FY20193$29kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$166kPublic Safety & Disaster$28k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc$68,524213%
South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program$28,50042%
Prodisee Pantry Inc$27,50011%
Alabama Dept Conservation & Natural Res$25,6005n/a
Montgomery County Bar Foundation$21,60054%
Madison County Volunteer Lawyers Program$21,60055%

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.

Legal Services Alabama IncAL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legal Services Alabama Inc · Alabama Law Foundation Inc · Alabama Civil Justice Foundation · 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 South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program

How much does South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program give?
South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program reported 1 grants totaling $6,524 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 5 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (86%), Public Safety & Disaster (14%).
Who are South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Inc ($69k), South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program ($29k), Prodisee Pantry Inc ($28k).
Does South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legal Services Alabama Inc, Alabama Law Foundation Inc, Alabama Civil Justice Foundation.
Where is South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program based?
South Alabama Volunteer Lawyers Program is based in AL.

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 6 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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