Missouri · Nonprofit
Legal Aid of Western Missouri
Legal Aid of Western Missouri (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,109,742 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($15,876,504). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 44
- Grants received
- $24M
- Net assets
- $52M
What Legal Aid of Western Missouri does
Mission
To improve the lives of those in need through quality legal assistance.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
Our dedicated staff of 128 including attorneys, paralegals, and administrative professionals provided free, quality legal assistance to low-income individuals and families across 40 counties in Western Missouri. During 2024, we advanced justice, promoted change, and improved the lives of 11,644 children and adults in our community with urgent civil legal needs. We preserved housing for families, preventing eviction and homelessness in our communities. We helped survivors of domestic violence achieve safety, stability, and independence. We removed legal barriers to health care, helping clients access treatment and achieve better health outcomes. We protected consumers by eliminating fraudulent debts and holding predatory lenders accountable. We secured vital income supports for seniors and people with disabilities.In 2024, we completed 9,899 legal cases. We received donated services from attorneys in our service area totaling 3,987 hours and valued at $996,750. These volunteer attorneys assisted our staff with cases as described above.In compliance with federal regulations, we lobby state and local government, but only to seek funding for our work.
$11,393,652 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $11,393,652.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.5M to $51M (+439%).
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: 2020 44% · 2021 35% · 2022 9% · 2023 42% · 2024 38%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
84% of Legal Aid of Western Missouri’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $724k → $4.6M.
7 of 44 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 Western Missouri’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 44 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 Western Missouri leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 80%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% 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 Western Missouri.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 34% · 2018 75% · 2019 74% · 2020 81% · 2021 77% · 2022 51% · 2023 72% — 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
54% of Legal Aid of Western Missouri's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% 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 Western Missouri draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $257k 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 Western Missouri's funding base is broadening — from 14 funders to 18 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding Legal Aid of Western Missouri receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.6M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.2M
- Department of Justice$1.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$121k
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 Western Missouri
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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Legal Aid of Western Missouri: 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 Western Missouri?
- Legal Aid of Western Missouri (Missouri) receives grants from 44 organizations whose IRS filings report $24,109,742 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($15,876,504). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Legal Aid of Western Missouri have?
- IRS filings report 44 organizations giving $24,109,742 in grants to Legal Aid of Western Missouri, 26 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Legal Aid of Western Missouri?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,876,504 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Legal Aid of Western Missouri find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 44 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