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ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC

ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,915,370 to it, the largest being Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Inc ($12,563,128). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$14M
Revenue FY2024
47
Funders on record
$18M
Grants received
$14M
Net assets
29/47 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 36%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($7.8M) Expenses 100 ($7.2M) Net assets 100 ($3.7M)2018 Revenue 103 ($8.1M) Expenses 108 ($7.8M) Net assets 108 ($4.0M)2019 Revenue 114 ($8.9M) Expenses 119 ($8.5M) Net assets 117 ($4.4M)2020 Revenue 109 ($8.4M) Expenses 111 ($7.9M) Net assets 131 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 109 ($8.5M) Expenses 96 ($6.9M) Net assets 175 ($6.5M)2022 Revenue 140 ($11M) Expenses 116 ($8.3M) Net assets 244 ($9.1M)2023 Revenue 167 ($13M) Expenses 147 ($10M) Net assets 311 ($12M)2024 Revenue 183 ($14M) Expenses 164 ($12M) Net assets 379 ($14M)
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Revenue (183)Expenses (164)Net assets (379)

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 12% · 2018 8% · 2019 8% · 2020 24% · 2021 35% · 2022 19% · 2023 18% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$620k
17
$285k
18
$358k
19
$524k
20
$1.6M
21
$2.6M
22
$2.5M
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$2.5M
24
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reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 13 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $1.7M → $1.7M.

10 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)15% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

Left out of every figure on this page: $573k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC raised.

From the IRS filings of ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC.

70%
largest funder
84%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 66% · 2019 52% · 2020 63% · 2021 59% · 2022 73% · 2023 80%diversifying over time.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

41% of ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

95% of ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC's grant income comes from Ohio funders.

MN
IL
NY
IN
OH
PA
CA
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 47 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.9M on record.

Federal$1.9M
grants $1.9Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.0M
  • Environmental Protection Agency$500k
  • Department of Justice$448k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

25
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

OH

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Legal Aid Foundation of Western Ohio Inc · exempt
  • Legal Aid of Western Ohio Inc · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC?
ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC (Ohio) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $17,915,370 to it, the largest being Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Inc ($12,563,128). 29 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC have?
IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $17,915,370 in grants to ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC, 29 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC?
Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $12,563,128 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like ADVOCATES FOR BASIC LEGAL EQUALITY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing