Missouri · Nonprofit
LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC
LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,377,839 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($16,757,424). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $14M
- Funders on record
- 45
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $51M
What Legal Services of Eastern Missouri Inc does
Mission
Partnering to improve lives and promote fairness we achieved a 97% success rate helping those in legal need, mostly women with children and about 62% persons of color, overcome barriers to safety and stability and obtain $20.5m in monetary benefits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Health: ensuring people in our communities receive the health care they need, resources to feed their families and other public benefits, including legal needs for persons living with mental illness. In 2023, we provided legal assistance which helped 1,657 clients and their household members. Through our community legal education programs, outreach, collaborations, and referrals, people learn their rights and prevent loss of health care coverage, which helped another 1,448 people.
$2,385,043 spent$1,524 earned by the program18% of program spendingSafety: our free legal representation assists survivors of domestic violence escape their cruel abusers. It not only saves the victims lives but also saves their children, and stops a future cycle of violence. We aided 3,306 victims and their family members in completed cases covering all aspects of family law, including protective orders. Our community legal education, outreach, collaborations, and referrals for needy people and other service providers, helped another 5,343 people. By addressing systemic legal problems impacting community members' safety we help prevent future abuse.
$2,971,525 spent$2,779 earned by the program23% of program spendingBasic needs: we reduce homelessness through eviction defense and help the marginalized obtain services to meet their basic needs. Services provided to veterans, elderly, unaccompanied minors, and immigrants, among others, helped 2,100 people and their household members in completed civil legal cases (note: this includes clients, household members under 18, and other household members 18 and older). Educating the community on their rights to meet their basic needs through legal education programs, outreach, collaboration, and referrals to other resources helped another 3,783 people. We help meet basic needs of the larger community through our systemic legal work.
$4,614,208 spentof which $653,831 as grants$4,233 earned by the program36% of program spendingEducation: children's future self-sufficiency depends on meeting their educational needs. We focus on providing legal assistance to those with special needs or facing unfair discipline. Utilizing a racial equity lens to help stop the school to prison pipeline, we helped 633 children/youth and their household members in completed cases. Our community legal education provides knowledge of educational law, the first step to seeking help. These education programs along with outreach, collaborations, and referrals to other resources, helped another 1,664 people. We expand the results of our legal advocacy by addressing systemic legal problems impacting community members related to education.
$1,039,671 spent$6,654 earned by the program8% of program spendingEconomic stability: enforcing fair consumer protections and combatting consumer scams, helping small businesses form and grow, and helping neighborhoods fix and prevent vacant property problems all create economic stability. This legal work helped 590 people and their household members in completed cases for clients. People learn about legal remedies through our community legal education on these economic stability issues, outreach, collaborations, and referrals to other resources, helping another 16,431 people. Our systemic legal advocacy helps remove barriers to economic stability.
$1,955,995 spent$1,260 earned by the program15% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $12,966,442.
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 2021 to 2022, from $16M to $51M (+224%).
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 72% · 2018 53% · 2019 66% · 2020 68% · 2021 68% · 2022 91% · 2023 55% · 2024 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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
Daniel K Glazier
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 21 funders, grant income rose $740k → $4.0M.
9 of 45 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 45 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 OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 83%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
97% 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 OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 72% · 2019 65% · 2020 72% · 2021 76% · 2022 71% · 2023 71% — 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
66% of LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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 OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Missouri, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC has grown faster than half of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.5M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$2.4M
- Department of Justice$1.4M
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 OF EASTERN MISSOURI 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
95%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC (Missouri) receives grants from 45 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,377,839 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($16,757,424). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC have?
- IRS filings report 45 organizations giving $28,377,839 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $16,757,424 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES OF EASTERN MISSOURI INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 45 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