Maryland · Nonprofit
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,250 to it, the largest being EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ($18,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION has grown faster than half of the 127 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Legal Services Corporationshared fundersportfolio match
- The District of Columbia Bar Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- National Legal Aid and Defender Associationportfolio match
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.
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 98% · 2018 88% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 100% · 2024 98% · 2025 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $3k → $500.
From the IRS filings of MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION’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
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
90% 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 MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Legal Services Corporationshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 74 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The District of Columbia Bar Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchDC · backs 18 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- National Legal Aid and Defender Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Rights Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Tennessee Legal Services INCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Women's Bar Association Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Fund for Change Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Immigrant Justice Corps Incshared fundersNY · backs 35 organizations that share your funders
- Illinois Equal Justice Foundationshared fundersIL · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinoisshared fundersIL · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.4M on record.
- Grant$11.4M
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 MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
98%
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 MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION?
- MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (Maryland) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $31,250 to it, the largest being EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS ($18,250). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $31,250 in grants to MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION.
- Who is the largest funder of MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION?
- EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS is the largest funder on record, with $18,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MARYLAND LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 4funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing