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LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY

LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,306,522 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($568,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2024
$890k
Funders on record
9
Grants received
$1.3M
Net assets
$421k
6/9 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%
01What it does

What Legal Assistance of Olmsted County does

Mission

Ensures access to justice by providing meaningful legal representation in civil matters to our low-income neighbors of olmsted county

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. During 2024 legal assistance of omsted county served 2,699 individuals through in house representation, free clinics, the volunteer attorney programs, and the landlord-tenant hotline.

    $698,894 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $698,894.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($458k) Expenses 100 ($441k) Net assets 100 ($218k)2020 Revenue 134 ($612k) Expenses 119 ($525k) Net assets 140 ($306k)2021 Revenue 120 ($551k) Expenses 125 ($552k) Net assets 140 ($306k)2022 Revenue 137 ($629k) Expenses 156 ($689k) Net assets 113 ($246k)2023 Revenue 173 ($794k) Expenses 163 ($717k) Net assets 148 ($323k)2024 Revenue 194 ($890k) Expenses 179 ($791k) Net assets 193 ($421k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (194)Expenses (179)Net assets (193)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 2022 to 2023, from $277k to $411k (+48%).

$231k
$353k
$311k
$277k
$411k
$479k
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 20% · 2020 17% · 2021 19% · 2022 16% · 2023 26% · 2024 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

72% of LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,778 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$17k
’19
$88k
’20
−$484
’21
−$60k
’22
$77k
’23
$99k
’24
5.6
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.

Board chair

Steven M Dittrich

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

201920202021202220232024
Listed111113131213
Joined·+0+7+3+4+3
No longer listed·05352
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $61k → $233k.

5 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY’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 ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 44% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY.

44%
largest funder
83%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 75% · 2018 61% · 2019 40% · 2020 38% · 2021 29% · 2022 48% · 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

83% of LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

57% of LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $567k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Minnesota funders.

MN

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Minnesota out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $740k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin11% · above the median
Months of reserve5.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024

Organizations like LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

88% of spending goes to programs.

Program 88%Management 8%Fundraising 4%

Governance

13
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy–Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

98%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MN

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY?
LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY (Minnesota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,306,522 to it, the largest being MAYO CLINIC ($568,900). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY have?
IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $1,306,522 in grants to LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY?
MAYO CLINIC is the largest funder on record, with $568,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEGAL ASSISTANCE OF OLMSTED COUNTY 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.

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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 2019–2024), and the filings of 9 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