Tennessee · Public charity
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
- 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.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $384k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $1.1M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $1.5M | 0% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $959k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $872k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $725k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $758k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $963k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tennessee Homeless Solutions | $1,840,749 | 7 | 30% |
| Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands | $1,034,086 | 9 | 3% |
| Northern Kentucky Legal Aid Society | $738,189 | 9 | 2% |
| Legal Aid of East Tennessee | $712,130 | 9 | 4% |
| Memphis Area Legal Services Inc | $458,321 | 8 | 6% |
| Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky Inc | $443,477 | 9 | 2% |
| Legal Services of Northern Michigan | $415,170 | 9 | 3% |
| Atlanta Legal Aid Society Inc | $413,490 | 9 | 1% |
| Montana Legal Services Association | $334,914 | 9 | 2% |
| Legal Services Alabama Inc | $291,626 | 9 | 1% |
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.
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How this is measured
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.
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
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.
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