· Public charity
West Tennessee Legal Services INC
Legal services to poor and underprivileged.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k10 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Appalachian Research & Defense Fund of Ky Inc | $70,309 |
| Legal Aid of the Bluegrass | $54,448 |
| Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc | $37,322 |
| Montana Legal Services Association | $34,665 |
| Legal Services of Northern Michigan | $34,078 |
| Legal Aid of East Tennessee | $27,635 |
| Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida | $27,171 |
| North Mississippi Rural Legal Services | $27,086 |
| Legal Services Corporation of AL | $22,414 |
| Kentucky Legal Aid Inc | $18,638 |
| Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee & The Cumberlands | $15,947 |
| University Legal Services | $13,868 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTENNESSEE HOMELESS SOLUTIONS7× · 2017–2023 · $1.8M · revenue +294% · 30% of their budget
- LALEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS9× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +122%
- NKNorthern Kentucky Legal Aid Society9× · 2017–2025 · $738k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- HOHOUSING OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR THE ELDERLY INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $31k · revenue +76%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The mission of Virginia Legal Aid Society is to resolve serious legal problems of low-income people, promote economic and family stability, reduce poverty through effective legal assistance, and to champion equal justice.
Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.
To provide legal assistance & housing counseling to the underprivileged citizens of north arkansas.
Toledo Legal Aid Society provides legal representation for indigent clients that are charged with criminal, traffic, or juvenile offenses for which the penalty or any possible adjudication includes the potential loss of liberty.
Legal aid society of eastern virginia provides legal assistance in non-criminal proceedings to persons financially unable to afford such assistance.
South carolina legal services is a statewide law firm that provides civil legal services to protect the rights and represent the interests of low income south carolinians.
The primary purpose of legal aid services of oregon shall be to achieve justice for the low-income communities of oregon by providing a full range of the highest quality civil legal services.
The Organization is a nonprofit community defender providing legal assistance through court appointment to children and other indigent persons.
Legal services to poor and underprivileged.
To provide free legal assistance in non-criminal matters to persons meeting financial eligibility requirements or having other special needs.
To resolve serious legal problems of low income people, to promote economic and family stability, and reduce poverty through effective legal assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Legal Services Alabama Inc and the most unlike its peers is Housing Options Provided for the Elderly Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 53 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 TENNESSEE HOMELESS SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE AND THE CUMBERLANDS ↗
- Who funds Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF EAST TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds Memphis Area Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc ↗
- Who funds Legal Services of Northern Michigan ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA LEGAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES ALABAMA INC ↗
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds North MS Rural Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid of Western Missouri ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES OF MID-FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy Inc ↗
- Who funds JACKSONVILLE AREA LEGAL AID INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID OF NEBRASKA ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING OPTIONS PROVIDED FOR THE ELDERLY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT LEGAL AID ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA LEGAL SERVICES CORP ↗
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.
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
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 West Tennessee Legal Services INC 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.
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc — 2% of income from government
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.