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LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS

LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,515 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($111,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.2M
Funders on record
15
Grants received
$430k
Net assets
$2.1M
13/15 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 8%
01What it does

What Legal Services for Seniors does

Mission

Legal Services for Seniors provides legal services at no charge to monterey county seniors 60 years of age and older with an emphasis on serving those who are socially and/or economically needy.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Providing legal services at no charge to monterey county seniors 60 years of age and older with an emphasis on serving those who are socially and/or economically needy.

    $773,764 spent$263,125 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $773,764.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($649k) Expenses 100 ($671k) Net assets 100 ($1.6M)2018 Revenue 162 ($1.1M) Expenses 107 ($719k) Net assets 122 ($1.9M)2019 Revenue 152 ($986k) Expenses 124 ($831k) Net assets 133 ($2.1M)2020 Revenue 151 ($977k) Expenses 133 ($889k) Net assets 137 ($2.1M)2021 Revenue 139 ($900k) Expenses 123 ($824k) Net assets 155 ($2.4M)2022 Revenue 160 ($1.0M) Expenses 146 ($982k) Net assets 146 ($2.3M)2023 Revenue 155 ($1.0M) Expenses 171 ($1.1M) Net assets 139 ($2.2M)2024 Revenue 157 ($1.0M) Expenses 161 ($1.1M) Net assets 136 ($2.1M)2025 Revenue 184 ($1.2M) Expenses 187 ($1.3M) Net assets 136 ($2.1M)
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Revenue (184)Expenses (187)Net assets (136)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 $2.3M to $3.0M (+27%).

$1.6M
$1.9M
$2.1M
$2.2M
$2.6M
$2.3M
$3.0M
$2.8M
$2.9M
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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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 29% · 2018 18% · 2019 22% · 2020 23% · 2021 31% · 2022 19% · 2023 27% · 2024 34% · 2025 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

68% of LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,392 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$22k
’17
$332k
’18
$155k
’19
$88k
’20
$77k
’21
$59k
’22
−$140k
’23
−$59k
’24
−$57k
’25
6.4
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.

Chief executive

Teri Scarlett

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed121413121417181612
Joined·+4+6+0+5+5+5+3+0
No longer listed·27132454
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $26k → $82k.

2 of 15 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 SERVICES FOR SENIORS’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 SERVICES FOR SENIORS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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

56% 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 SERVICES FOR SENIORS.

26%
largest funder
63%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 37% · 2019 56% · 2020 38% · 2021 37% · 2022 51% · 2023 61% — 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

67% of LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 87% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

87% of LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
CO
NC
FL

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

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS is better cushioned than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−5% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.4mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Organizations like LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 21%Fundraising 18%

Governance

11
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

83%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS?
LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS (California) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $429,515 to it, the largest being MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ($111,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS have?
IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $429,515 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS?
MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $111,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES FOR SENIORS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 15 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