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LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC

LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,247,439 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($429,652). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$118M
Funders on record
20
Grants received
$1.2M
Net assets
$65M
11/20 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%
01What it does

What Legal Services of New Jersey Inc does

Mission

To provide and promote free and affordable civil legal assistance, advocacy and justice for low-income people and communities in new jersey.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Program

  1. The statewide legal services system coordinated by legal services of new jersey (lsnj) opens approximately 60,000 new legal representation cases annually. In addition to its direct representation, an estimated 1.5 million more are assisted through web and other legal information, clinics, and other legal education activities. Lsnj also coordinates and supports the statewide legal services system, and engages in related research, amicus work, advocacy, public information, training, and development activities to further its legal aid mission.

    $88,514,136 spentof which $57,498,534 as grants$164,857 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $88,514,136.

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 ($37M) Expenses 100 ($37M) Net assets 100 ($12M)2018 Revenue 107 ($40M) Expenses 109 ($40M) Net assets 101 ($12M)2019 Revenue 135 ($51M) Expenses 127 ($47M) Net assets 153 ($18M)2020 Revenue 140 ($52M) Expenses 144 ($53M) Net assets 147 ($17M)2021 Revenue 156 ($58M) Expenses 164 ($60M) Net assets 130 ($15M)2022 Revenue 201 ($75M) Expenses 199 ($73M) Net assets 146 ($17M)2023 Revenue 285 ($107M) Expenses 233 ($86M) Net assets 326 ($38M)2024 Revenue 315 ($118M) Expenses 254 ($93M) Net assets 548 ($65M)
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Revenue (315)Expenses (254)Net assets (548)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 $41M to $69M (+70%).

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$17M
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$32M
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$41M
$69M
$90M
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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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 80% · 2018 94% · 2019 96% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

99% of LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$576k
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$115k
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$3.7M
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−$709k
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−$1.9M
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$1.9M
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$21M
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$24M
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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

Cynthia M Jacob

Chairperson

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Joined·+1+3+5+3+4+1+2
No longer listed·2153212
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell $259k → $67k.

7 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 NEW JERSEY INC’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 OF NEW JERSEY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.

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

37% 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 NEW JERSEY INC.

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largest funder
68%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 94% · 2019 52% · 2020 50% · 2021 43% · 2022 45% · 2023 60% — 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

54% of LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

76% of LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.

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

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New Jersey out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 OF NEW JERSEY INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 15 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin21% · top quartile
Months of reserve1.0mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)18% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 15 crime & legal nonprofits over $100M, FY2024

Government funding LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $761.1M on record — $8.5M federal, $752.6M state.

Federal$8.5M
grants $8.5Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$4.9M
  • Department of Justice$2.3M
  • Department of the Treasury$1.4M
State$752.6M
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Top programs
  • GRANT IN AID$553.4M
  • DEDICATED$100.5M
  • DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$48.5M
  • FEDERAL$41.0M
  • TRUST FUND$9.2M

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 NEW JERSEY 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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

95% of spending goes to programs.

Program 95%Management 5%Fundraising 0%

Governance

20
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

100%

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

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NJ

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Questions and answers

Who funds LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC?
LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,247,439 to it, the largest being THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION ($429,652). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC have?
IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $1,247,439 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC?
THE ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $429,652 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES OF NEW JERSEY INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. 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 20 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