Louisiana · Nonprofit
FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES
FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,708 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ($463,708). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $386k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $654k
- Net assets
- $119k
What Frontline Legal Services does
Mission
Provide free legal and social services to people living with HIV/AIDS in Louisiana and Georgia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Frontline provided significant legal, outreach, education, and advocacy services throughout Louisiana. Through Frontline's Legal Clinics at prisons and HIV/AIDS Community Organizations across the state, we have been able to provide access to health care, fight discrimination and improve the quality of life of people living with HIV in Louisiana. Frontline staff presents to groups of inmates that are within 180 days of release, as part of the Louisiana Department of Corrections ReEntry Program. There are approximately 50 inmates in each "pre-release class" from many different parishes across the state. The presentation includes Health Education, Housing, Discrimination, Permanency Planning, and Disability, and focuses on HIV/AIDS related legal issues. Frontline then meets individually with HIV+ inmates following the presentation, accepting new cases from clients exiting the prison system, including Social Security Disability and Permanency Planning. In addition to the Legal Clinic Day, staff schedules follow up appointments with several inmates on a "Call Out" basis. Frontline opened Frontline Georgia in late 2022, and hopes to provide similar services in the Atlanta area during…
$363,660 spentof which $385,549 as grants$385,549 earned by the program100% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $363,660.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $15k to $95k (+526%).
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: 2023 14% · 2024 21% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Steven Hernandez
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $40k → $175k.
From the IRS filings of FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES’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
FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 67% · 2023 42% — 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
71% of FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Louisiana funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- OTHER SERVICES$4k
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 FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES
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 Louisiana
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES: 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 FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES?
- FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES (Louisiana) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $653,708 to it, the largest being LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION ($463,708). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $653,708 in grants to FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES?
- LOUISIANA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $463,708 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRONTLINE LEGAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Louisiana. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 3 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