Delaware · Nonprofit
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,075,400 to it, the largest being DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION ($8,324,510). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $11M
- Net assets
- $5.7M
What Community Legal Aid Society Inc does
Mission
Clasi provides free civil legal services to people with disabilities; people with low incomes; victims of housing discrimination; older citizens (60 and over); victims of domestic violence; and immigrant victims of crime, abuse and neglect.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Clasi provides free civil legal services to individuals whose income does not exceed 125% of the federal poverty guidlines, individuals over 60, and victims of crime. Work in the poverty law program focuses on homelessness prevention; maintainence of income benefits, food benefits, and healthcare benefits; family law, especially in cases of domestic violence; and assitance for immigrant victims of crime, especially domestic violence, sexual assult, abuse and neglect.
$3,943,332 spent$8,095 earned by the program39% of program spendingAs delaware's protection and advocacy system, clasi provides free legal representation for and advocates on behalf of individuals with disabilities in delaware. Disabilites law program projects include help for people with developmental disabilities, mental illness, traumatic brain injuries and those who are benficiaries of social security. Other projects include protection and advocacy for individual rights, assistive technology and voter access.
$3,662,578 spent$11,385 earned by the program37% of program spendingClasi's fair housing initiative program provides free statewide representation to delawareans whose right to fair housing as guaranteed by state and/or federal law has been violated. Clasi's services include intake, investigation, processing and representation. Clasi also conducts outreach and education activities.
$1,780,779 spentof which $378,036 as grants$20,000 earned by the program18% of program spendingOther program services includes clasi's contributions of legal services to the community outside of their main programs.
$626,715 spent$62,554 earned by the program6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,013,404.
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 $4.1M to $7.3M (+79%).
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 62% · 2018 63% · 2019 64% · 2020 60% · 2021 69% · 2022 68% · 2023 63% · 2024 56% · 2025 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Daniel Atkins
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $651k → $859k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC’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
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 92% · 2019 87% · 2020 48% · 2021 56% · 2022 46% · 2023 84% — 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
50% of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
94% of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Delaware funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $883k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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
COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $34.2M on record — $18.7M federal, $15.4M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$10.6M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.9M
- Department of Education$2.3M
- Social Security Administration$1.6M
- Department of Justice$1.4M
- FED GRANT SUB RECIPIENT$3.9M
- GRANTS IN AID$3.5M
- LEGAL SERVICES$3.3M
- OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE$2.1M
- CONSULTANTS$1.6M
- COUNSELING$760k
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 COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC
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 Delaware
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC?
- COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC (Delaware) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,075,400 to it, the largest being DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION ($8,324,510). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $11,075,400 in grants to COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC?
- DELAWARE BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,324,510 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Delaware. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 25 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