Minnesota · Nonprofit
LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,268 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($459,900). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 37
- Grants received
- $2.2M
- Net assets
- $1.0M
What Legal Rights Center does
Mission
Our mission is to work with our communities to seek justice and promote racial equity for those to whom it has been historically denied. We do this through criminal defense, restorative justice, advocacy, and community education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
See schedule o.through our community defense program we provide free criminal defense to children and adults utilizing a model of providing holistic, client-centered and community-driven representation to clients who otherwise could not afford an attorney. We prioritize clients and cases involving injustices, focused on challenging harmful systemic processes or practices, or in which the client may benefit from supportive community resources. We also utilize a team representation model, with each client working with both an attorney and a community advocate. In 2025, lrc provided criminal defense representation on 337 juvenile and adult cases. 35% of cases with representation by lrc attorneys were acquitted, dismissed, diverted or discharged. An additional 6% of cases with lrc representation resulted in a stay of adjudication, for a total of 41% of lrc cases with no convictions in 2025. We have expanded our post-conviction support, supporting clients through the applications for pardons and commutations, and supporting 96 people through the expungement process. Additionally, our client support team serves as a resource for individuals for whom we are not able to provide full…
$2,029,939 spent$3,696 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,029,939.
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 2019 to 2020, from $580k to $869k (+50%).
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 80% · 2018 67% · 2019 75% · 2020 63% · 2021 69% · 2022 72% · 2023 71% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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
Malaika Eban
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $7k → $508k.
7 of 37 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 RIGHTS CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 37 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 RIGHTS CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
54% 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 RIGHTS CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 60% · 2019 82% · 2020 34% · 2021 29% · 2022 62% · 2023 20% — 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
40% of LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 51% 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
67% of LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $816k 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.
Against its field
LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER has grown faster than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
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
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
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 RIGHTS CENTER: 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 RIGHTS CENTER?
- LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER (Minnesota) receives grants from 37 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,205,268 to it, the largest being NEW VENTURE FUND ($459,900). 19 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 37 organizations giving $2,205,268 in grants to LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER, 19 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER?
- NEW VENTURE FUND is the largest funder on record, with $459,900 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 37 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