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Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp

Who we are: southeast louisiana legal services (slls) is the largest non-profit law firm in louisiana whose mission is to achieve justice through free civil legal aid to low-income people by direct case work, advocacy, and community education.

$684k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$237k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Crime & Legal$2.9M
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $603k
$69,458
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUISIANA FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER$236,654
JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE$144,242
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS$100,649
IRIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER$69,458
BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION$52,000
WHITE OAK CONSULTING$36,000
NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER$30,491
THE PRO BONO PROJECT$13,309
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 22%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%URBAN STRATEGIES: $29k → 21%METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $26k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $54k → 23%METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $24k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $49k → 23%METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $16k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $41k → 23%METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 15%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $31k → 23%METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $5k → 15%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $30k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $29k → 23%IRIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $69k → 19%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $20k → 23%IRIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $7k → 19%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $19k → 23%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $18k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $126k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $120k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $93k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $92k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $56k → 23%LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $26k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $15k → 23%THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $13k → 23%LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $77k → 23%LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE: $71k → 23%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 12 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$2.8M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+48%

Still filing today

83%
33%

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • TP
    THE PRO BONO PROJECT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $515k · revenue +56%
  • JP
    JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $376k · revenue +87%
  • BR
    BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $368k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • URBAN STRATEGIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +231%
  • GB
    GALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • LL
    LAGNIAPPE LAW LABgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +48%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Central Louisiana Pro Bono Project
2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
Acadiana Legal Service Corporation

The mission of acadiana legal services corporation is to provide exceptional civil legal services by advocating for fairness, protection, and justice. our vision for the state is for these services to be easy and timely accessible.

Crime & Legal
4
Louisiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc

The Organization is dedicated to bringing about change in institutions, laws, politics, attitudes, and beliefs which will allow individuals to live free of violence.

5
Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center

The Louisiana Capital Assistance Center is a New Orleans based non-profit law office established in 1993 as the Louisiana Crisis Assistance Center. The LCAC represents indigent individuals who are charged with capital crimes in Louisiana…

Crime & Legal
6
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
7
Louisiana Alliance for Nonprofits

To strengthen, promote, and build the capacity of louisiana's nonprofit sector through education, advocacy, and member services.

Philanthropy
8
Casa - New Orleans

Casa - new orleans trains volunteers to become court appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children in the juvenile justice system.

9
Louisiana State Bar Association

The mission of the louisiana state bar association is to assist its members in the practice of law, assure access to and aid in the administration of justice, assist the supreme court in the regulation of the practice of law, uphold the…

10
Louisiana Center for Children's Rights

Using direct representation and advocacy, we fight to keep children out of the justice system so that they can thrive in their homes and communities.

Crime & Legal
11
The Promise of Justice Initiative

The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.

Crime & Legal
12
Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy

Immigration Legal Services and Advocacy (ISLA) provides direct representation to indigent detained immigrants throughout Louisiana on a pro bono basis and under a universal representation model. ISLA provides information to the public to…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Family Justice Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PRO BONO PROJECT — $514,641 · Human ServicesTHE PRO BONO PROJECTLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $174,685 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTI…NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $146,700 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCECATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS — $143,161 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEAN…METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC — $81,071 · Human ServicesMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INCCAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC — $76,213 · Human ServicesCAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CE…+1 more — $29,061 · Human ServicesLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc — $599,028 · Civil RightsLouisiana Fair Housing A…LAGNIAPPE LAW LAB — $24,500 · Civil RightsJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE — $375,841 · Housing & ShelterJANE PLACE NEI…BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION — $368,416 · Crime & LegalBATON ROUGE BA…+1 more — $4,000 · Crime & LegalWHITE OAK CONSULTING — $144,000 · OtherWHITE OAK…SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY-BATON ROUGE — $38,077 · OtherSOUTHERN …GALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES INC — $24,600 · OtherGALLAGHER…GREEN PEPPER LEGAL DBA GREEN PEPPER LEGAL — $10,000 · OtherLAKENDRA D SAMPSON LLC — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $22,500 · Other+3 moreLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $152,790 · Education
Human Services$1,165,532Civil Rights$623,528Housing & Shelter$375,841Crime & Legal$372,416Other$249,177Education$152,790

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc — $599,028 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE PRO BONO PROJECT — $514,641 over 7y, 20% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE — $375,841 over 3y, 16% of budgetBATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION — $368,416 over 7y, 21% of budgetLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC — $174,685 over 3y, 19% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY — $152,790 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $146,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS — $143,161 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC — $81,071 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC — $76,213 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES INC — $29,061 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLAGNIAPPE LAW LAB — $24,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Greater New Orleans FoundationLA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Louisiana Bar Foundation · United Way of Southeast Louisiana · Junior League of New Orleans Inc · The Kresge Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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