Minnesota · Nonprofit
LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,324,561 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($1,069,608). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.8M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $2.3M
- Net assets
- $-462279
What Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota does
Mission
Our mission is to provide civil legal service to low-income clients. Our legal services provide basic protection for our clients by enforcing the law when their rights have been violated, promote the self-sufficiency of individuals throughout our region, and educate and inform our community residents of their legal rights and responsibilities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
During 2025, Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota provided free, high-quality civil legal services to low-income individuals and families throughout northeastern minnesota. Attorneys, paralegals, and volunteer attorneys helped clients resolve legal issues involving housing, family safety, public benefits, consumer protection, elder law, and other matters affecting basic needs, financial security, and long-term stability. Services were provided through direct representation, legal advice, community education, clinics, and partnerships with courts and community organizations. Legal aid's work helped prevent homelessness, protect survivors of domestic violence, preserve family stability, secure income and health benefits, protect older adults from abuse and financial exploitation, and remove legal barriers that prevent individuals and families from achieving stability and self-sufficiency. During the year, legal aid served 9,159 individuals through direct legal services, protected and recovered 868,180.00 for clients, closed 3,514 cases with its legal services staff and closed 502 cases through its private attorney involvement (pai) program. Staff also reached more than 2,761…
$5,255,412 spent$66,074 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $5,255,412.
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 2023 to 2024, from $956k to $1.6M (+66%).
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 92% · 2018 82% · 2019 94% · 2020 93% · 2021 83% · 2022 95% · 2023 91% · 2024 86% · 2025 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
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.
Board chair
Fred Friedman
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $75k → $768k.
5 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% 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 NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA’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 SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 84% · 2019 100% · 2020 47% · 2021 43% · 2022 39% · 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
38% of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
50% of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $138k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA has grown faster than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA: 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 NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA?
- LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA (Minnesota) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,324,561 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($1,069,608). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $2,324,561 in grants to LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,069,608 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 17 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