Kentucky · Nonprofit
CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC
CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,432,820 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($12,019,939). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.4M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $4.6M
What Cumberland Trace Legal Services Inc does
Mission
The mission of Kentucky Legal Aid is to assist and enable low-income families, elderly, disabled, and other vulnerable individuals in south central Kentucky resolve legal problems that are barriers to self-sufficiency and to provide these individuals an opportunity for an improved quality of life.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal Assistance Program: to provide free legal services to qualified low income clients in a 35 county service area. Cases range from family/domestic law, elder law, public benefits, consumer law, nursing home issues, and pro bono. Approximately 4762 cases were closed in 2025. Kentucky Legal Aid's (KLA) cases were filed on behalf of low-income, disabled, and elderly individuals who qualify for free legal Assistance defined by Legal Services Corporation and other grantors. Litigation includes family law disputes, consumer actions, including foreclosures and bankruptcies, assistance in domestic violence actions, and public benefit hearings. The general public benefits from KLA's litigation by virtue of making the civil legal system available to those unable to afford private legal counsel. KLA's litigation efforts also help low-income people resolve problems and promotes self-sufficiency. KLA seeks no fees on behalf of the program in any litigation with the limited exception of cases in which the program was appointed by the court and statutory fees are specified. Fees are not solicitated from clients nor accepted from clients.
$3,952,817 spentof which $3,952,817 as grants85% of program spendingPrivate Attorney Involvement (PAI): to promote free legal services through pro bono efforts and private attorney involvement. Clients are referred to pro bono or private attorneys who provide free legal services. Approximately 222 cases were closed in 2025.
$289,706 spentof which $289,706 as grants6% of program spendingOlder American Act: to provide clients 60 years of age or over with free legal services in matters such as consumer/fraud, public benefits, medicare/medicaid, wills, and powers of attorney. Residents of nursing home issues are also handled. Approximately 1128 cases were closed in 2025.
$407,264 spentof which $407,264 as grants9% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,649,787.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2024 to 2025, from $4.4M to $5.5M (+26%).
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: 2020 97% · 2021 98% · 2022 97% · 2023 97% · 2024 97% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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
Amanda Young
Executive Director
Board chair
Hon Murry Raines
Board Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $279k → $3.7M.
From the IRS filings of CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES 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
CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 79% · 2019 69% · 2020 82% · 2021 76% · 2022 76% · 2023 82% — growing more concentrated.
“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
88% of CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 82% 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
CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.2M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.9M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$298k
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 CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES 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 Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES 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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Questions and answers
- Who funds CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,432,820 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($12,019,939). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $16,432,820 in grants to CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,019,939 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CUMBERLAND TRACE LEGAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 11 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