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Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp

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

$807k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$2.9M
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $729,182, the rows itemized in this filing. The $807,172 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $77,990 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $660k
$56,250
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOUISIANA FAIR HOUSING ACTION CENTER$230,492
JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE$135,811
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY NEW ORLEANS$117,305
IRIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER$65,313
LAGNIAPPE LAW LAB$56,250
BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION$54,500
NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER$41,811
GALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES INC$15,500
WHITE OAK CONSULTING$12,200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.3M) 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 its 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%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $42k → 23%METROPOLITAN CENTER FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN: $10k → 15%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $41k → 23%METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY: $5k → 15%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $31k → 23%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: $65k → 19%NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $19k → 23%IRIS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CENTER: $7k → 19%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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.6M · 14 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
7

Total granted

$3.6M
$76k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+231%

Still filing today

79%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TP
    THE PRO BONO PROJECT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $515k · revenue +56%
  • JP
    JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $512k · revenue +87%
  • BR
    BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $423k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • URBAN STRATEGIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $29k · revenue +231%
  • GP
    GREEN PEPPER LEGAL DBA GREEN PEPPER LEGAL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • LD
    LAKENDRA D SAMPSON LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Louisiana Pro Bono Project
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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.

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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.

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9
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
10
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…

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11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Orleans Family Justice Alliance; 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 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. 13 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PRO BONO PROJECT: $514,641 · Human ServicesTHE PRO BONO PROJECTNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $188,511 · Human ServicesNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCELOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $174,685 · Human ServicesLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND …CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $143,161 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW O…CAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $141,526 · Human ServicesCAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTI…METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $81,071 · Human ServicesMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY IN…+1 more: $29,061 · Human ServicesLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $829,520 · Civil RightsLouisiana Fair Housing Actio…LAGNIAPPE LAW LAB: $80,750 · Civil RightsLAGNIAPPE LAW LABJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $511,652 · Housing & ShelterJANE PLACE NEIG…BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION: $422,916 · Crime & LegalBATON ROUGE B…+1 more: $4,000 · Crime & LegalWHITE OAK CONSULTING: $156,200 · OtherGALLAGHER BENEFIT SERVICES INC: $40,100 · OtherSOUTHERN UNIVERSITY-BATON ROUGE: $38,077 · OtherGREEN PEPPER LEGAL DBA GREEN PEPPER LEGAL: $10,000 · OtherLAKENDRA D SAMPSON LLC: $10,000 · Other+3 more: $22,500 · OtherLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $270,095 · Education
Human Services$1,272,656Civil Rights$910,270Housing & Shelter$511,652Crime & Legal$426,916Other$276,877Education$270,095

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc: $829,520 over 4y, 17% of budgetTHE PRO BONO PROJECT: $514,641 over 7y, 20% of budgetJANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE: $511,652 over 4y, 16% of budgetBATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION: $422,916 over 8y, 21% of budgetLOYOLA UNIVERSITY: $270,095 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE: $188,511 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetLOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $174,685 over 3y, 19% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS: $143,161 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC: $141,526 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMETRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC: $81,071 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLAGNIAPPE LAW LAB: $80,750 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $29,061 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE PRO BONO PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds JANE PLACE NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds BATON ROUGE BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NEW ORLEANS FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds LOUISIANA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF NEW ORLEANS ↗
  • Who funds CAPITAL AREA FAMILY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds METRO CENTERS FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAGNIAPPE LAW LAB ↗
  • Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY CENTER OF LOUISIANA ↗

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.

The Greater New Orlea…Louisiana Bar Foundat…United Way of Southea…Junior League of New …The Kresge FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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 21 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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