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LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC

LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,040,421 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($21,533,643). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$16M
Funders on record
26
Grants received
$27M
Net assets
$4.5M
14/26 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 38%
01What it does

What Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc does

Mission

To advocate for low-income, vulnerable west virginians seeking equal access to justice and create system change in order to improve client safety, health, housing, income, and access to resources.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. Provide legal services in non-criminal proceedings to persons financially unable to afford such services. Representation for indivduals under the nursing home ombudsman act.

    $15,016,008 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $15,016,008.

02The 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 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($10M) Net assets 100 ($2.6M)2018 Revenue 102 ($11M) Expenses 102 ($10M) Net assets 108 ($2.8M)2019 Revenue 107 ($11M) Expenses 113 ($11M) Net assets 91 ($2.3M)2020 Revenue 113 ($12M) Expenses 116 ($12M) Net assets 80 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 126 ($13M) Expenses 126 ($13M) Net assets 89 ($2.3M)2022 Revenue 131 ($13M) Expenses 138 ($14M) Net assets 71 ($1.8M)2023 Revenue 167 ($17M) Expenses 142 ($14M) Net assets 176 ($4.5M)2024 Revenue 154 ($16M) Expenses 155 ($16M) Net assets 174 ($4.5M)
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Revenue (154)Expenses (155)Net assets (174)Peer revenue range

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 $5.7M to $8.2M (+45%).

$4.2M
$5.7M
$5.7M
$8.2M
$8.1M
$7.2M
$8.6M
$8.5M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 88% · 2018 86% · 2019 88% · 2020 72% · 2021 84% · 2022 87% · 2023 74% · 2024 83%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 268 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$184k
’17
$198k
’18
−$423k
’19
−$64k
’20
$241k
’21
−$478k
’22
$2.9M
’23
$164k
’24
3.5
months of
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.

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Listed2626272628282726
Joined·+3+5+3+6+6+0+5
No longer listed·3444616
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $263k → $6.5M.

6 of 26 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 11% 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 WEST VIRGINIA 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

LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 80% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 WEST VIRGINIA INC.

80%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 87% · 2019 93% · 2020 93% · 2021 87% · 2022 92% · 2023 55% — 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

57% of LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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 WEST VIRGINIA INC draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside West Virginia, across 7 states in all.

MA
OH
PA
WV
VA
DC
FL

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

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West Virginia out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.9M 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC is better cushioned than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve3.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

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

Government funding LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.

Federal$2.6M
grants $2.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$1.8M
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$637k
  • Department of the Treasury$88k
  • Appalachian Regional Commission$50k

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 WEST VIRGINIA INC

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC?
LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC (West Virginia) receives grants from 26 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,040,421 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($21,533,643). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC have?
IRS filings report 26 organizations giving $27,040,421 in grants to LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC?
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $21,533,643 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEGAL AID OF WEST VIRGINIA INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 26 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