New Mexico · Nonprofit
EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC
EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,265 to it, the largest being THOMAS A AND MARY E DUGAN FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $362k
- Funders on record
- 8
- Grants received
- $100k
- Net assets
- $346k
What Equal Access to Justice Inc does
Mission
To increase access to justice by supporting and expanding free civil legal services for low-income new mexicans. For 35 years, equal access to justice has been providing unrestricted, noncompetitive funds to legal aid organizations who provide free civil legal services, representation, and systemic legal advocacy for indigent new mexicans. Legal aid helps resolve problems, change unfair policies, and ultimately promote family and economic stability.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Providing resources for new mexico legal aid (nmla). Nmla provides statewide civil legal services and is the voice,defender and advocate for poor people who are seeking justice in all forums, particularly in the communities in which they live. Nmla is committed to helping poor people in their struggle to access food, shelter, security, and to preserve their unique cultural heritages. Nmla provides direct legal representation and assistance to 15-20,000 people annually in legal matters that impact essential needs: shelter, protection from abuse (physical, mental, and economic), food,income protection, and predatory lending practices. Tens of thousands more receive legal information about their rights and instructions on how to protect themselves.
$113,312 spentof which $102,833 as grants33% of program spendingProviding resources for the new mexico center on law and poverty (nmclp). Nmclp advances economic and social justice through education, advocacy, and litigation. Nmclp partners with communities to take action and pursue system-wide changes to improve living conditions, and protect rights. Nmclp works to increase access to healthcare, food, income, and safe and affordable housing; transform new mexico's public education system; and increase workers' access to fair pay and safe working conditions.
$105,323 spentof which $95,583 as grants31% of program spendingProviding resources for dna people's legal services (dna). 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. Since 1967, dna has provided free legal aid on the navajo nation, jicarilla apache nation, the hopi nation, and in remote parts of new mexico, northern arizona, and southern utah. Dna's services have helped people living in poverty use existing policies and laws to protect their property and assets, stay safe from physical, mental and financial abuse, avoid exploitation, and safeguard their civil rights.
$121,576 spentof which $110,333 as grants35% of program spendingEqual access to justice's scholarship donation to unm school of law's association for public interest law (apil) supports a law student's summer fellowship and career exploration into public interest law in new mexico. Apil works to ensure that law students who have secured summer positions in nonprofit or government roles, many of which offer little to no compensation, can afford to accept. Scholarship donations help cover students' living expenses, making it financially possible to pursue summer placements that deliver legal support to communities in need.
$3,856 spentof which $3,500 as grants1% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $344,067.
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 2023 to 2024, from $292k to $402k (+38%).
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: 2022 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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
Heather Norfleet
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $250 → $20k.
3 of 8 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE 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
EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
29% 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 EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 50% — 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.
Where its funders are
72% of EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC's grant income comes from New Mexico funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC is better cushioned than half of the 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,237 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE 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 New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE 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 EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC?
- EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC (New Mexico) receives grants from 8 organizations whose IRS filings report $100,265 to it, the largest being THOMAS A AND MARY E DUGAN FOUNDATION ($50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 8 organizations giving $100,265 in grants to EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC?
- THOMAS A AND MARY E DUGAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 8 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