Florida · Nonprofit
LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC
LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,665,070 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($1,677,136). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Lee County Legal Aid Society Inc does
Mission
To provide legal services to residents of lee county, florida who meet our financial guidelines. We provide legal services in the area of family law, including dissolution of marriage, paternity, establishing parenting plans, and step-parent adoption.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
1.family law - since 1967, lee county legal aid society has founded its legal reputation on the representation of families with minor children involved. Protecting the rights and welfare of vulnerable children during and after divorce has been a fundamental cause of the organization. In the fiscal year 2023-2024, our organization served 226 people with family law issues and recovered 436,177.07 in 26 cases with outcomes that affected families. There were 47 family law cases remaining open at the end of the fiscal year. 2.immigration law - arpa grant-funded 30-month program continuation. The immigration program is one of the fastest-growing projects undertaken by lee county legal aid society, to date. Initiated to help immigrant youth who have suffered neglect, abuse, or abandonment to become legal in the united states, through the special immigrant juvenile status (sijs) pathway to citizenship, children under age 18 are then protected from deportation from the united states. Aging out of foster care at 18, those youth who have been awarded sijs are able to find employment, rent a place to live, and continue to live and work their way toward full citizenship. In fiscal 2024, lee…
$1,119,068 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,119,068.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $1.6M to $2.7M (+69%).
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 74% · 2018 68% · 2019 82% · 2020 78% · 2021 72% · 2022 73% · 2023 46% · 2024 28% · 2025 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $136k → $561k.
2 of 12 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% 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 LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY 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
LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% 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
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 LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 86% · 2019 89% · 2020 80% · 2021 100% · 2022 58% · 2023 76% — 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
33% of LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
96% of LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $170k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY 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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY 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 LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC?
- LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC (Florida) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,665,070 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($1,677,136). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $3,665,070 in grants to LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC?
- THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,677,136 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEE COUNTY LEGAL AID SOCIETY 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 12 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