New York · Nonprofit
LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY
LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,242,375 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($15,997,361). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $41M
- Funders on record
- 65
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $11M
What Legal Services of the Hudson Valley does
Mission
The mission of lshv is to provide high quality counsel in civil matters for low-income individuals, and families and other vulnerable persons who do not have access to legal representation.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Lshv serves low-income residents of the hudson valley, from young children to seniors. Approxiamately 80% of the cases are brought by clients who are at or below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines (64,300 for a family of four in 2025) or are of a vulnerable population. Additionally, lshv provided 1,619,928 in rental and financial assistance to 309 households/clients. In total for 2025, lshv handled just over 12,000 cases impacting over 27,700 household members throughout the seven-county service area. Our vision is to help create a society where all individuals have equal access to justice.
$35,223,486 spentof which $5,974,702 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $35,223,486.
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.
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 $11M to $16M (+42%).
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 94% · 2018 93% · 2019 93% · 2020 93% · 2021 93% · 2022 92% · 2023 96% · 2024 95% · 2025 96%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Rachel Halperin
CEO
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 17 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose $146k → $3.7M.
13 of 65 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 THE HUDSON VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 65 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 THE HUDSON VALLEY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 79%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
83% 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 THE HUDSON VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 92% · 2019 80% · 2020 74% · 2021 72% · 2022 64% · 2023 73% — 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
51% of LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% 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 THE HUDSON VALLEY draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $928k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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.
Government funding LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.3M on record.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.2M
- Department of Justice$600k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$500k
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 THE HUDSON VALLEY
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Hudson Valley Justice Center Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY: 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 THE HUDSON VALLEY?
- LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY (New York) receives grants from 65 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,242,375 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($15,997,361). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 65 organizations giving $22,242,375 in grants to LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $15,997,361 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGAL SERVICES OF THE HUDSON VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 65 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