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West Tennessee Legal Services INC

Legal services to poor and underprivileged.

$384k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$27,635
Largest grant, FY2025
$70,309
Organizations funded a year
13 to 21
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
9
Total assets, FY2025
$5.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations West Tennessee Legal Services INC funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

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
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 arriving12$384k0%
FY202413$1.1M0%
FY202315$1.5M0%
FY202216$959k0%
FY202116$872k0%
FY202016$725k0%
FY201918$758k0%
FY201821$963k0%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$6.1MHousing & Shelter$1.9M

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
MI
PA
NE
MO
KY
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 22 grantees

Where it is load-bearing

West Tennessee Legal Services INC supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTennessee Homeless Solutions: $1,840,749 over 7y, 30% of budgetLegal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands: $1,034,086 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Legal Aid Society: $738,189 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetLegal Aid of East Tennessee: $712,130 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetMemphis Area Legal Services Inc: $458,321 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetAppalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc: $443,477 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetLegal Services of Northern Michigan: $415,170 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetAtlanta Legal Aid Society Inc: $413,490 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetMontana Legal Services Association: $334,914 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetLegal Services Alabama Inc: $291,626 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCumberland Trace Legal Services Inc: $247,592 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNorth MS Rural Legal Services Inc: $201,331 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity Legal Services Inc: $173,197 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetLegal Aid of Western Missouri: $173,136 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc: $141,311 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCharlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc: $124,339 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc: $93,240 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLegal Aid of Nebraska: $37,565 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGeorgia Legal Services Program Inc: $32,499 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHousing Options Provided for the Elderly Incorporated: $30,601 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetSummit Legal Aid: $22,478 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSoutheast Louisiana Legal Services Corp: $21,779 over 2y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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 CorporationDC41× affinity17 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Legal Services Corporation · Equal Justice Works · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · National Legal Aid and Defender Association · National Health Law Program Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 West Tennessee Legal Services INC

How much does West Tennessee Legal Services INC give?
West Tennessee Legal Services INC reported 12 grants totaling $383,581 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does West Tennessee Legal Services INC fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (77%), Housing & Shelter (23%).
Who are West Tennessee Legal Services INC's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Tennessee Homeless Solutions ($1.8M), Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands ($1.0M), Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ($738k).
Does West Tennessee Legal Services INC fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as West Tennessee Legal Services INC?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Legal Services Corporation, Equal Justice Works, American College of Bankruptcy Foundation.
Where is West Tennessee Legal Services INC based?
West Tennessee Legal Services INC is based in TN.

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 22 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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