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FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC

FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,743,050 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($14,655,215). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$7.5M
Funders on record
10
Grants received
$16M
Net assets
$3.8M
5/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 93%
01What it does

What Florida Legal Services Inc does

Mission

To provide and serve as a leader in the state of florida, to encourage the provision of high quality legal services for the poor and provide support and assistance to all providers of legal assistance to the poor throughout the state.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide substantive law and skills training for staff of legal assistance to the poor providers, low-income residents of florida, pro bono attorneys and other organizations and persons advocating for low-income residents of florida. Provide legislative and admin advocacy on priority issues impacting the low-income residents of florida. Provide representation to low-income clients in court and administrative proceedings on matters that have a significant impact on the wellbeing of the clients and other low-income residents of florida.

    $3,787,795 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,787,795.

02The 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 ($2.2M) Expenses 100 ($2.4M) Net assets 100 ($2.4M)2018 Revenue 123 ($2.7M) Expenses 95 ($2.3M) Net assets 119 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 97 ($2.1M) Expenses 84 ($2.0M) Net assets 125 ($2.9M)2020 Revenue 98 ($2.2M) Expenses 92 ($2.2M) Net assets 122 ($2.9M)2021 Revenue 112 ($2.5M) Expenses 102 ($2.4M) Net assets 123 ($2.9M)2022 Revenue 134 ($3.0M) Expenses 137 ($3.3M) Net assets 109 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 226 ($5.0M) Expenses 178 ($4.3M) Net assets 140 ($3.3M)2024 Revenue 341 ($7.5M) Expenses 271 ($6.5M) Net assets 162 ($3.8M)
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Revenue (341)Expenses (271)Net assets (162)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $3.8M to $5.7M (+52%).

$3.3M
$3.8M
$4.1M
$4.0M
$3.7M
$3.8M
$5.7M
$4.9M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 6% · 2019 14% · 2020 14% · 2021 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−$187k
’17
$440k
’18
$138k
’19
−$50k
’20
$18k
’21
−$329k
’22
$724k
’23
$1.0M
’24
5.0
months of
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

Christopher Jones

Executive director

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1817171818212220
Joined·+4+1+1+1+3+2+4
No longer listed·5101016
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $2.1M → $536k.

2 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 FLORIDA 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

FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC.

93%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 89% · 2019 74% · 2020 92% · 2021 88% · 2022 68% · 2023 100% — 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

43% of FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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

96% of FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.

NY
CA
DC
FL

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

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’21
’22
’23
Florida out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $9k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $8.5M on record — $7.2M federal, $1.3M state.

Federal$7.2M
grants $7.2Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$3.3M
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.0M
  • Department of Health and Human Services$1.5M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$500k
State$1.3M
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Top programs
  • FEDERAL FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE - GENERAL $1.3M
  • REFUNDS - GENERAL $8k

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 11%Fundraising 0%

Governance

16
board members
94%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

FL

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Questions and answers

Who funds FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC?
FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC (Florida) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,743,050 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($14,655,215). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $15,743,050 in grants to FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC?
THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $14,655,215 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 10 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