Illinois · Nonprofit
LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC
LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,600 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($410,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $918k
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $223k
What Legal Action Chicago LLC does
Mission
Legal action chicago seeks justice for people living in poverty through litigation and advocacy, our team of lawyers and staff fight to secure individual rights to affordable housing, basic healthcare, fair working conditions, protection from abuse, and economic stability.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal representation entails representing individuals, families and organizations in pre-litigation and litigation who would otherwise be without the means to secure their civil rights across a range of basic concerns, including, for example, access to affordable housing and fair and safe working conditions.
$745,174 spent$80,109 earned by the program92% of program spendingRegarding policy and systemic advocacy, legal action chicago views sharing its subject matter expertise on issues impacting individuals living in poverty as an extension of its legal representation of these clients. Legal action chicago advocates with public officialsin all branches and levels of government to improve regulations, policies and procedures affecting its clients. As a part of this work, legal action intends to provide white papers and testimony to lawmakers who may be considering statutory changes that would positively oradversely affect the rights or conditions of the poor and vulnerable in cook county.
$67,522 spent8% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $812,696.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2020 to 2021, from $342k to $166k (−52%).
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.
90% of LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 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
Jeffrey E Stone
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 11 funders, grant income rose $10k → $529k.
4 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 42% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $350k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Legal Aid Chicago). These are real filings, and they are not money LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC raised.
From the IRS filings of LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 19 of 20 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
LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
55% 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 LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 33% · 2023 24% — 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
79% of LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $690k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC's funding base is broadening — from 1 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,546 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
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
- Legal Aid Chicago · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC: 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 LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC?
- LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC (Illinois) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,647,600 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($410,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,647,600 in grants to LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $410,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL ACTION CHICAGO LLC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 20 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing