Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,271,672 to it, the largest being Margaret A Cargill Foundation ($4,599,396). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 15 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 crime & legal nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared funders
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio match
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
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: 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $672k → $1.5M.
10 of 38 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 SERVICES CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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 SERVICES CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 67% · 2019 66% · 2020 67% · 2021 26% · 2022 69% · 2023 47% — 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
44% of LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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 SERVICES CORPORATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 16 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $409k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 38 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 81 organizations that share your funders
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Association of Corporate Counsel Group Returnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice Worksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Legal Aid and Defender Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Skadden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Laura and John Arnold Foundationshared fundersTX · backs 75 organizations that share your funders
- American Chemical Societyshared fundersDC · backs 69 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $22 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $22
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 SERVICES CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% 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 37 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 38 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,271,672 to it, the largest being Margaret A Cargill Foundation ($4,599,396). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 38 organizations giving $9,271,672 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION?
- Margaret A Cargill Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $4,599,396 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 38funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing