· Public charity
West Tennessee Legal Services INC
Legal services to poor and underprivileged.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
22 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization West Tennessee Legal Services INC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from West Tennessee Legal Services INC. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc: 13% of income from government
- Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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