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FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY

FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,157 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($543,288). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$11M
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
$1.1M
Grants received
$2.8M
Net assets
10/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 4%

Against its field

FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($5.2M) Expenses 100 ($5.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.3M)2018 Revenue 111 ($5.8M) Expenses 110 ($5.7M) Net assets 110 ($1.4M)2019 Revenue 125 ($6.5M) Expenses 122 ($6.3M) Net assets 129 ($1.6M)2020 Revenue 136 ($7.1M) Expenses 134 ($6.9M) Net assets 145 ($1.8M)2021 Revenue 133 ($7.0M) Expenses 132 ($6.8M) Net assets 157 ($2.0M)2022 Revenue 140 ($7.3M) Expenses 136 ($7.1M) Net assets 171 ($2.1M)2023 Revenue 173 ($9.0M) Expenses 171 ($8.9M) Net assets 189 ($2.4M)2024 Revenue 219 ($11M) Expenses 216 ($11M) Net assets 224 ($2.8M)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (216)Net assets (224)Peer revenue range

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 94% · 2018 90% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 97% · 2022 97% · 2023 95% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 266 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$33k
17
$126k
18
$222k
19
$171k
20
$123k
21
$224k
22
$181k
23
$235k
24
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $173k → $53k.

3 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)10% 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 FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY’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

FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 48% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

96% 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 FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY.

48%
largest funder
91%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 75% · 2019 74% · 2020 57% · 2021 53% · 2022 93% · 2023 84%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

75% of FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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

98% of FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY's grant income comes from New York funders.

NY
PA

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

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New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 13 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.

Organizations like FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY

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 New York

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

19
board members
95%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

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

NY

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY?
FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY (New York) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,125,157 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC ($543,288). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,125,157 in grants to FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY?
LEGAL SERVICES OF CENTRAL NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $543,288 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRANK H HISCOCK LEGAL AID SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 13funders 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