Arizona · Nonprofit
ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION
ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,400 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($52,046). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $153k
- Net assets
- $26M
What Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education does
Mission
Organized and operated exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, which includes carrying on the following purposes,(contd on schedule o)
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal services is the first of the two steps toward access to justice for all. With these program services, we offer training, scholarships, mentoring, recognition and award programs and financial assistance. These services are offered to individuals and entities promoting free legal services and support to those in arizona most vulnerable. In addition to the direct financial and legal support offered, legal service education is provided through law related websites. Over 500,000 arizona households benefited from our program services through grantees and volunteers. Our websites are visited over 250,000 times each month where children, adults and seniors are receiving the legal answers they need.
$7,194,855 spentof which $5,416,700 as grants$90,152 earned by the program78% of program spendingLre law-related education is the second of the two steps toward access to justice for all. With these program services, we offer curriculum, training, scholarships, mentoring, recognition awards programs and financial assistance. These services are offered to individuals and entities promoting free education and awareness to youth so that they will increase their understanding of their roles as good citizens. Over 300,000 arizona children benefited from our program services through our grantees and participants.
$1,971,242 spentof which $369,820 as grants$53,550 earned by the program22% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,166,097.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $14M to $27M (+96%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 95% · 2020 94% · 2021 92% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $2k → $10k.
4 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% 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: $480k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest State Bar of Arizona). These are real filings, and they are not money ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION raised.
From the IRS filings of ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
77% 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 ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 52% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
67% of ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $51k that is directly attributable, 73% of it comes from funders outside Arizona, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $102k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is 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.
Against its field
ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.1M
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 ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION: 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION?
- ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION (Arizona) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $153,400 to it, the largest being ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($52,046). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $153,400 in grants to ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION?
- ARIZONA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $52,046 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARIZONA FOUNDATION FOR LEGAL SERVICES & EDUCATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arizona. 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 8 funders 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing