Minnesota · Nonprofit
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,348,580 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($2,287,126). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $24M
- Funders on record
- 53
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $10.0M
What Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance does
Mission
Organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance throughout central minnesota in non-criminal matters or proceedings to persons financially unable to afford legal assistance.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
General case services: we provided a wide range of free legal services to people with low incomes in more than twenty counties in central minnesota through offices in minneapolis, st cloud, and wilmar, and we served additional clients statewide. We helped approximately 20,700 low-income people defend their legal rights to basic needs like food, shelter, safety, and heath care through more than eight thousand client matters. Disability law services: we provided free civil legal assistance to individuals with disabilities statewide on legal issues related to their disabilities. We served approximately nine hundred minnesotans with disabilities with representation and information regarding their rights and provided technical assistance on 65 other disability related matters. We also protected disability rights by monitoring 66 facilities that cared for, housed, and taught people with disabilities.
$22,025,166 spent$276,532 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $22,025,166.
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 $13M to $19M (+45%).
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 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 71% · 2020 65% · 2021 71% · 2022 66% · 2023 73% · 2024 76% · 2025 77%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $960k → $1.4M.
15 of 53 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $13M from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Fund for Legal Aid). These are real filings, and they are not money MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE raised.
From the IRS filings of MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
74% 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 MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 42% · 2018 37% · 2019 29% · 2020 19% · 2021 25% · 2022 16% · 2023 18% — 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
58% of MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
88% of MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $27.6M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$12.5M
- Department of Education$4.3M
- Social Security Administration$4.2M
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.3M
- Department of Justice$1.4M
- Department of the Treasury$1.3M
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 MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE
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
85% 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
- The Fund for Legal Aid · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE: 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 MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE?
- MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE (Minnesota) receives grants from 53 organizations whose IRS filings report $13,348,580 to it, the largest being GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY ($2,287,126). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE have?
- IRS filings report 53 organizations giving $13,348,580 in grants to MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE?
- GREATER TWIN CITIES UNITED WAY is the largest funder on record, with $2,287,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MID-MINNESOTA LEGAL ASSISTANCE 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 53 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing