Georgia · Nonprofit
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,386,425 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($71,984,498). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $94M
- Net assets
- $16M
What Georgia Legal Services Program Inc does
Mission
The georgia legal services program is a nonprofit corporation whose mission is to provide civil legal services for persons with low incomes, creating equal access to justice and opportunities out of poverty. We believe everyone has a right to high-quality legal services regardless of income, age, race, or other demographic factors. Our nonprofit law firm exists to ensure qualifying georgians have access to free legal assistance and/or representation from experienced staff and trusted partners.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
To provide service under legal service corporation (lsc) to promote equal access to justice in our nation and to provide high quality civil legal assistance to low-income persons.
$12,055,717 spent54% of program spendingElder legal assistance and elder abuse prevention projects provide services funded under the older americans act(oaa). The projects are designed to provide assistance in the identification, prevention and/or treatment of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation for seniors with a social or economic need.
$7,974,561 spent35% of program spendingStatewide family violence project provides legal assistance to survivors of family violence. One of the project's goals is to help these individuals obtain temporary protective orders and economic stability for themselves and their children.
$2,494,912 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $22,525,190.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $11M to $20M (+80%).
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: 2017 96% · 2018 95% · 2019 96% · 2020 94% · 2021 96% · 2022 89% · 2023 95% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% 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.
Chief executive
Susan Coppedge
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 15 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $2.8M → $14M.
7 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 funders by total. 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
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
99% 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 GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 92% · 2018 89% · 2019 76% · 2020 84% · 2021 82% · 2022 85% · 2023 84% — 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.
How long its funders stay
37% of GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Georgia, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $538k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC is better cushioned than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.7M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.3M
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.1M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$223k
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 GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM 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 Georgia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Georgia Legal Services Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM 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 GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC?
- GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC (Georgia) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,386,425 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($71,984,498). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $94,386,425 in grants to GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $71,984,498 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEORGIA LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Georgia. 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 43 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