Oklahoma · Nonprofit
LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC
LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,496,511 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($42,878,114). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $28M
- Funders on record
- 66
- Grants received
- $72M
- Net assets
- $2.4M
What Legal Aid Services of Oklahoma Inc does
Mission
To be a partner in the community making equal justice for all a reality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
To provide free civil legal services - legal aid services enables justice for all because we are oklahoma's law firm for the poor. Legal aid services keeps people working, keeps families together and helps our communities function. Legal aid services fosters legal resolutions to problems and issues. In 2025, legal aid closed 11,875 cases for individuals who otherwise may not have had access to justice.
$20,685,855 spent$81,466 earned by the program72% of program spendingTo provide city public defender legal services. In 2025, the defender office accepted for representation 934 cases in the oklahoma city municipal court.
$493,371 spent2% of program spendingTo provide legal representation in deprived child actions brought by the state, ensuring that all children and qualified parents, legal guardians, and indian custodians receive high quality legal services. In 2025, this program served 5,686 clients in 3,286 cases.
$7,556,374 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $28,735,600.
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 2022 to 2023, from $7.3M to $12M (+60%).
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 73% · 2018 78% · 2019 75% · 2020 82% · 2021 83% · 2022 82% · 2023 75% · 2024 86% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Figgins Michael
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 23 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $14M.
8 of 66 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 66 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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 83% · 2019 80% · 2020 79% · 2021 76% · 2022 61% · 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
58% of LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 11 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $17M 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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC has grown faster than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $28.1M on record — $26.6M federal, $1.6M state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$16.0M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$5.8M
- Department of Justice$3.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$950k
- Department of the Treasury$873k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Law Enf,Saf.$618k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$473k
- Admin Mgmt-Gen.Mgmt Consulting$343k
- Other Legal Services$92k
- Offices Of Lawyers$52k
- Travel Reimb.-Non-State Empls.$202
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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA 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 SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC?
- LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 66 organizations whose IRS filings report $72,496,511 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($42,878,114). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC have?
- IRS filings report 66 organizations giving $72,496,511 in grants to LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $42,878,114 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL AID SERVICES OF OKLAHOMA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 66 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