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LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO

LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,108,199 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($31,782,021). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$24M
Revenue FY2024
31
Funders on record
$46M
Grants received
$19M
Net assets
20/31 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 77%

Against its field

LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve2.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($9.0M) Expenses 100 ($8.0M) Net assets 100 ($4.1M)2018 Revenue 96 ($8.6M) Expenses 103 ($8.2M) Net assets 104 ($4.3M)2019 Revenue 109 ($9.7M) Expenses 118 ($9.4M) Net assets 129 ($5.3M)2020 Revenue 128 ($11M) Expenses 127 ($10M) Net assets 167 ($6.9M)2021 Revenue 112 ($10M) Expenses 122 ($9.7M) Net assets 189 ($7.8M)2022 Revenue 117 ($10M) Expenses 128 ($10M) Net assets 179 ($7.3M)2023 Revenue 142 ($13M) Expenses 144 ($11M) Net assets 221 ($9.1M)2024 Revenue 265 ($24M) Expenses 275 ($22M) Net assets 455 ($19M)
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Revenue (265)Expenses (275)Net assets (455)Peer revenue range

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 92% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 91% · 2022 10% · 2023 89% · 2024 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 266 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$983k
17
$317k
18
$331k
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$1.3M
20
$356k
21
$286k
22
$1.2M
23
$1.8M
24
2.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $6.7M.

8 of 31 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 SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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 SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO.

69%
largest funder
96%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 75% · 2019 96% · 2020 82% · 2021 77% · 2022 58% · 2023 75%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

50% of LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Ohio, across 8 states in all.

IL
NY
OH
NJ
CA
WV
VA
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Ohio out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $535k 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 31 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government funding LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.4M on record.

Federal$6.4M
grants $6.4Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.0M
  • Department of Justice$1.4M
  • Department of the Treasury$1.1M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$900k

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 SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO

Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ohio

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

89% of spending goes to programs.

Program 89%Management 9%Fundraising 2%

Governance

40
board members
100%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

99%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Ohio Poverty Law Center · disregarded
  • Ohio State Bar Association · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO: 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO?
LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO (Ohio) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,108,199 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($31,782,021). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO have?
IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $46,108,199 in grants to LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO?
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $31,782,021 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEGAL AID OF SOUTHEAST AND CENTRAL OHIO find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 31funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing