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THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN
THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN new york fights for fairness, dignity, and justice for those living in poverty and for a society which is inclusive and equitable for all.
$882k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
1
Communities
$82k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Housing & Shelter$82kEducation$62kHuman Services$51kCrime & Legal$38kCivil Rights$6kOther$54k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
catholicrespondspoorpersonssub-recipientdomestic violence
2019
catholicrespondspoorpersonssub-recipient
2020
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2024
safeequityvaluesethicalalbany damiendamien center'sstudents
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $143k
$61,695
Median grant
1
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
- UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY$81,545
- ALBANY LAW SCHOOL$61,695
- ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER$30,957
- COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREENE COUNTY$10,000
02The need
04
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 (FY17–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$74k · 4 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
4
3
Total granted
$74k
$44k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+82%
Still filing today
100%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $174k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterEducationCivil RightsOther
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
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OF GREENE COUNTY4× · 2017–2024 · $26k · revenue +41%
- FCFAMILY COUNSELING FULTON COUNTY3× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +29%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SARATOGA3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- LALEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +82%
- VLVOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +142%
- IOIN OUR OWN VOICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +79%
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.
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The Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo
The legal aid bureau of buffalo, inc., a not-for-profit organization, provides legal representation to financially needy men, women and children in western new york. through its skilled staff, the legal aid bureau seeks equal justice for…
Crime & Legal
2
Legal Aid Society of Mid-New York Inc
We are a not-for-profit law office whose primary purpose is to provide legal assistance in civil proceedings on matters to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance in oneida county and surrounding counties.
Crime & Legal
3
Legal Services of Central New York Inc
Legal services of central new york (lscny)is a 501c3 non-profit law firm that helps people and communities in central new york change law, policy, and systems to promote equity and create pathways out of poverty for low-income families and…
Crime & Legal
4
The Center for Law & Justice Inc
The primary purpose of the organization is to provide services to disadvantaged individuals in the albany area.
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5
The Legal Aid Society of
Advocates for justice and equal treatment under the law, providing constitutionally mandated legal representation to persons financially unable to hire counsel.
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6
Center for Elder Law & Justice Inc
To improve the quality of life for elderly, disabled and low-income persons in the western new york area through the provision of free civil legal services. the primary goal is to use the legal system to assure that clients may live…
Crime & Legal
7
The Lutheran Service Society of New York
Provide various social services to individuals and families in the western new york area.
Community Improvement
8
Federal Defenders of New York Inc
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
Crime & Legal
9
Prisoners' Legal Services of New York
To provide high quality, effective legal representation and assistance to indigent prisoners, to help them to secure their civil and human rights, and to advocate for more humane prisons and for a more humane criminal justice system.
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10
Legal Services Nyc
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Crime & Legal
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Rural Law Center of New York Inc
The rural law center of new york is an organization that is dedicated to identifying and addressing the legal issues unique to low-income, rural new yorkers.
Crime & Legal
12
Genesee County Legal Aid Society
To provide legal services for those unable to afford legal assistance
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Tenants of Albany Inc and the most unlike its peers is In Our Own Voices Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Housing & Shelter$81,545Education$61,695Other$54,181Human Services$50,926Crime & Legal$37,988Civil Rights$5,990
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY ↗
- Who funds ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALBANY DAMIEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREENE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF WESTERN NY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COUNSELING FULTON COUNTY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SARATOGA ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE VALLEY RENEWAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds IN OUR OWN VOICES INC ↗
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.
Capital District Physicians' HealthNY15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Capital District Physicians' Health · The Community Foundation for the Greater · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organisation THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF NORTHEASTERN 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~7 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 141557371 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on UNITED TENANTS OF ALBANY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 7 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Legal Aid Society of Northeastern through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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