Florida · Nonprofit
LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,186,196 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($10,850,854). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc does
Mission
To provide high quality free civil legal advice, representation and education to the disadvantaged of broward and collier counties as to improve the lifestyle and living conditions of the low income community and encourage self-sufficiency. [continued on schedule o] this is accomplished through advocacy that might result in having an impact on large numbers of eligible clients by representing individual clients on day-to-day problems, and through efforts at educating clients about their rights, responsibilities and self-help options.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide legal services in civil cases to eligible persons within broward and collier counties in southern florida; cooperate with the judiciary, the florida bar, local bars, and all organizations interested in the administration of justice; and undertake, promote, develop, and carry out charitable, literary, and education projects, planned objectives, and activities of every kind, nature, and description in furtherance of legal aid work. In 2025 the organization served 4,245 individual clients and 9,903 within their households. We also served under the private attorney involvement pro bono program a total of 620 individual clients and 1,643 within their households.
$13,532,554 spentof which $143,575 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,532,554.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $5.8M to $16M (+168%).
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 81% · 2018 79% · 2019 83% · 2020 89% · 2021 88% · 2022 83% · 2023 82% · 2024 88% · 2025 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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
Debra Koprowski
Executive director
Board chair
Katie Kohn
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 9 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $1.4M.
8 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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 SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 44% · 2019 37% · 2020 43% · 2021 33% · 2022 42% · 2023 43% — 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
32% of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% 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
97% of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Florida funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.2M 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.
Government funding LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.1M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.1M
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 SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC
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 Florida
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 Service of Collier County · disregarded
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: 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 SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC?
- LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC (Florida) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,186,196 to it, the largest being THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC ($10,850,854). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $18,186,196 in grants to LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC?
- THE FLORIDA BAR FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,850,854 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL AID SERVICE OF BROWARD COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Florida. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 32 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