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DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC

DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC (Arizona) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $38,387,377 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($29,074,166). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$12M
Revenue FY2024
22
Funders on record
$38M
Grants received
$6.9M
Net assets
13/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 87%

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.7M) Expenses 100 ($4.3M) Net assets 100 ($677k)2018 Revenue 101 ($4.7M) Expenses 87 ($3.7M) Net assets 241 ($1.6M)2019 Revenue 106 ($4.9M) Expenses 97 ($4.2M) Net assets 357 ($2.4M)2020 Revenue 115 ($5.4M) Expenses 110 ($4.7M) Net assets 461 ($3.1M)2021 Revenue 114 ($5.3M) Expenses 131 ($5.6M) Net assets 423 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 117 ($5.4M) Expenses 132 ($5.7M) Net assets 377 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 143 ($6.6M) Expenses 139 ($6.0M) Net assets 480 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 263 ($12M) Expenses 168 ($7.2M) Net assets 1020 ($6.9M)
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Revenue (263)Expenses (168)Net assets (1020)

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 9% · 2019 78% · 2020 83% · 2021 79% · 2022 78% · 2023 82% · 2024 48%. 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.

$365k
17
$961k
18
$757k
19
$656k
20
$302k
21
$212k
22
$672k
23
$5.0M
24
4.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

76%
largest funder
94%
top three
~2
effective funders

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; 59% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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.

MT
IL
MI
UT
CO
AZ
NM
NC
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Arizona out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 22 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

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.

Federal$637k
grants $637kcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Arizona

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 19%Fundraising 1%

Governance

17
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NM

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 $38,387,377 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($29,074,166). 13 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 $38,387,377 in grants to DNA PEOPLES LEGAL SERVICES INC, 13 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.

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 22funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing