Arizona · Nonprofit
DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC
DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,388,377 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($29,074,166). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $38M
- Net assets
- $4.2M
What Dna Peoples Legal Services Inc does
Mission
Part iii, line 4a, program service accomplishments:dna serves clients who live in poverty, with the full range of civil legal needs, such as consumer law, domestic violence, guardianships, other family law, landlord/tenant, employment and public benefits cases. We also provide services to indigent criminal defendants, and we serve as the hopi tribe public defender. Dna staff practice in tribal, state, federal and administrative courts.form 990, part I, line 1 and part iii, line 1, description of organization mission:dna provides access to justice to those who are low income and vulnerable by providing high quality legal services and education while respecting tribal sovereignty and cultural traditions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Dna - peoples legal services provides free legal services and community legal education to persons living in poverty on the navajo, hopi, and jicarilla apache reservations, and in parts of northern arizona, northwest new mexico, and southern utah. Dnas main office, as well as dnas fort defiance branch office, are located in window rock, arizona. Dna also has branch offices in chinle arizona, tuba city arizona, flagstaff arizona, keams canyon arizona, and farmington new mexico. Our office in keams canyon, designated as our hopi office, provides civil and criminal defense legal services to members of the hopi and to others primarily living on the hopi reservation.
$5,761,744 spent$1,224,592 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,761,744.
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.
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 $4.3M to $9.6M (+125%).
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 80% · 2018 9% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 79% · 2022 78% · 2023 82% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Chief executive
Rodolfo D Sanchez
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $516k → $5.3M.
5 of 22 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.
From the IRS filings of DNA PEOPLES 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
DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 92% · 2019 76% · 2020 93% · 2021 94% · 2022 94% · 2023 92% — 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
71% of DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Arizona, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Government funding DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $637k on record.
- Department of the Treasury$637k
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 DNA PEOPLES 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 Arizona
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
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 DNA PEOPLES 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 DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,388,377 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($29,074,166). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $38,388,377 in grants to DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $29,074,166 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC 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.
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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 22 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