Iowa · Nonprofit
MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES
MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,800 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA ($265,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $145k
- Funders on record
- 3
- Grants received
- $339k
- Net assets
- $77k
What Muscatine Legal Services does
Mission
The mission of Muscatine Legal Services is to provide quality legal representation to low-income residents of muscatine county and provide information about the law and legal process to the general public.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Muscatine Legal Services provides direct representation to low income residents of muscatine county and helps to disseminate knowledge about the law and legal processes to the public. We cover a wide variety of civil legal problems facing low income muscatine county residents. These include domestic violence, public assistance and benefit programs such as social security and unemployment compensation, illegal evictions and consumer matters. Our office also assists clients with custody and dissolution of marriage actions where child support, alimony payments and property division may be an issue. By pursuing these matters on behalf of our clients a positive economic impact is realized for both individuals and for muscatine county. Anytime a resident can secure an economic benefit, they are less reliant on the public welfare system or the county for their support. Our office is also involved with the legal representation of minor children in two types of court proceedings. These are custody cases and children in need of assistance cases. By representing minors in these types of actions, we assist the court with ensuring that the children are part of the legal process and adequately…
$0 spent
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $0.
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 $38k to $78k (+106%).
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 14% · 2018 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (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
Jean A Pfeiffer
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $70k → $17k.
1 of 3 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES’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
MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 84% · 2019 80% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 56% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Iowa funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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
MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES's revenue fell 32% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES
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 Iowa
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES: 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 MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES?
- MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES (Iowa) receives grants from 3 organizations whose IRS filings report $338,800 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA ($265,600). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 3 organizations giving $338,800 in grants to MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES?
- UNITED WAY OF MUSCATINE IOWA is the largest funder on record, with $265,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MUSCATINE LEGAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Iowa. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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