Virginia · Nonprofit
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC
LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,126,225 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($12,633,010). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.0M
- Funders on record
- 33
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What Legal Services of Northern Virginia Inc does
Mission
Legal services of northern virginia (lsnv) is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides free legal assistance to low-income residents of northern virginia.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Provide legal services to persons below the poverty line in non-criminal cases throughout the northern virginia area
$7,932,865 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $7,932,865.
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 $2.0M to $3.4M (+66%).
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 91% · 2018 93% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 84% · 2022 81% · 2023 82% · 2024 87% · 2025 87%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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
James A Ferguson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $215k → $2.8M.
12 of 33 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 OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 33 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 NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 87% · 2019 64% · 2020 86% · 2021 85% · 2022 84% · 2023 89% — 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
41% of LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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 NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 6 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $609k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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 NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC is better cushioned than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of the Treasury$1.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$850k
- Department of Justice$300k
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 NORTHERN VIRGINIA 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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% 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 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC: 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 SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC (Virginia) receives grants from 33 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,126,225 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($12,633,010). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC have?
- IRS filings report 33 organizations giving $15,126,225 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,633,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 33 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