Texas · Nonprofit
Austin Legal Access
Austin Legal Access (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $40k
- Net assets
- $8k
What Austin Legal Access does
Mission
The primary exempt purpose of Austin Legal Access is a 501c3 charitable organization that offers affordable legal services in Austin Texas and surrounding areas. Our mission is to provide affordable legal services on a sliding scale to low-to-moderate income individuals. The organization is organized exclusively for charitable educational and scientific purposes under section 501c3 of the Internal Revenue Code or corresponding section of any future federal tax code.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Under the Building Generational Wealth program we represented 20 third-party payer clients by providing free estate planning services covered through Austin Community Foundation funding.
$20,000 spentof which $20,000 as grants59% of program spendingUnder our primary program we 4 represented private-pay customers in 2025 in family criminal probate and other civil matters. Based on the going rates for attorneys in Texas we estimate that we saved these clients a total of $14,000 over the year an average of $3,500.00 per client. Additionally we represented 4 third-party payer clients estate planning clients via contract as a subcontractor of the City of Austin.
$14,000 spent41% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $34,000.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2024, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2024, 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 at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $2k to $8k (+255%).
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.
41% of Austin Legal Access’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Austin Legal Access’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Austin Legal Access'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $40k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
Austin Legal Access runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like Austin Legal Access
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Austin Legal Access: 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 Austin Legal Access?
- Austin Legal Access (Texas) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $40,000 to it, the largest being AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($40,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Austin Legal Access have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $40,000 in grants to Austin Legal Access.
- Who is the largest funder of Austin Legal Access?
- AUSTIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Austin Legal Access find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2024–2025), and the filings of 1 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