Minnesota · Nonprofit
LEGALCORPS
LEGALCORPS (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,796 to it, the largest being FREDRIKSON & BYRON FOUNDATION ($77,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $939k
- Funders on record
- 15
- Grants received
- $489k
- Net assets
- $448k
What Legalcorps does
Mission
See schedule o.Legalcorps' mission expands access to business law services for individuals and organizations to promote economic development and stabilize communities. Economic justice means that everyone has opportunities to participate and thrive in the economy, including those who are marginalized by our current economic systems.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
A significant expansion of services in our nonprofit program services to include governmental compliance assistance. This service was offered before but on a smaller scale.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
See schedule o.small business & entrepreneurs program(sbep):as the agency flagship program, it serves the largest number of clients through brief advice clinics, individual limited-scope representation, and educational workshops on legal topics relevant to small businesses and emerging entrepreneurs. Inventor assistance program:Legalcorps offers patent pro bono assistance in minnesota, north dakota, south dakota, iowa, and wisconsin. This successful program was the first of its kind in the nation and led the united states patent & trademark office to replicate it nationally. Nonprofit services program:similar to the small business program, this provides legal assistance and educational workshops tailored to nonprofit start-ups and operations. Legalcorps partners with other nonprofits and foundations to offer comprehensive wrap-around services. Entrepreneurs in our communities program:is a focused initiative of the small business & entrepreneur program, that aims to make business law services more accessible and beneficial to recent immigrants, non-english speaking and black/indigenous/people of color. Legalcorps employs an in-house attorney who reached clients through partnerships…
$431,021 spent$97,635 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $431,021.
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 2024 to 2025, from $167k to $531k (+218%).
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: 2022 28% · 2023 24% · 2024 45% · 2025 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of LEGALCORPS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Nicole Deters
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2024 and FY2025 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $8k → $97k.
6 of 15 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 LEGALCORPS’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
LEGALCORPS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
80% 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 LEGALCORPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 52% · 2020 48% · 2021 19% · 2022 31% · 2023 31% — 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
67% of LEGALCORPS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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
80% of LEGALCORPS's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $158k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LEGALCORPS runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,547 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like LEGALCORPS
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LEGALCORPS: 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 LEGALCORPS?
- LEGALCORPS (Minnesota) receives grants from 15 organizations whose IRS filings report $488,796 to it, the largest being FREDRIKSON & BYRON FOUNDATION ($77,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEGALCORPS have?
- IRS filings report 15 organizations giving $488,796 in grants to LEGALCORPS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEGALCORPS?
- FREDRIKSON & BYRON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $77,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEGALCORPS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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