Texas · Nonprofit
LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS
LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,219,493 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($76,683,841). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $34M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $94M
- Net assets
- $4.1M
What Legal Aid of Northwest Texas does
Mission
Ensure equal access to justice and improve the lives of low-income communities by providing high-quality legal representation, strategic litigation, valuable legal advice, and meaningful collaborations, outreach, and community education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Provided civil legal assistance to the indigent population in west texas and north central texas service areas, which encompassed 114 counties. During 2024, more than 12,790 volunteer hours and $3,181,063 in donated services from attorneys and paralegals were utilized in this effort.
$29,763,388 spentof which $168,194 as grants$5,848 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $29,763,388.
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 2019 to 2020, from $9.5M to $18M (+88%).
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 97% · 2018 95% · 2019 95% · 2020 88% · 2021 96% · 2022 94% · 2023 95% · 2024 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Maria Tomas-Jones
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Penny Robe
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $82k → $17M.
7 of 33 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 LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 61% · 2018 97% · 2019 76% · 2020 98% · 2021 89% · 2022 73% · 2023 78% — 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
35% of LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS draws 83% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $710k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS 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 LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.2M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.2M
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 LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS
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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% 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 LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS: 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 AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS?
- LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS (Texas) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $94,219,493 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($76,683,841). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $94,219,493 in grants to LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $76,683,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL AID OF NORTHWEST TEXAS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 33 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