New York · Nonprofit
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,020,072 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($11,264,074). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- $15M
- Net assets
- $2.6M
What Neighborhood Legal Services Inc does
Mission
Neighborhood legal services, inc. (nls) seeks equitable justice by providing access to legal advice, representation, and education to those in our communities who, due to financial vulnerability, disability, discrimination, or abuse, require assistance and protection of their civil legal rights. Serving erie, niagara, genesee, wyoming, and orleans counties, nls aims to create the greatest access to the justice system for low-income individuals and those living with disabilities to pursue goals that will increase both the stability and the quality of their lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Neighborhood legal services, inc. (nls), as measured by program expenses, delivered its largest service impact through its housing program, providing legal representation, advocacy, and eviction prevention services to individuals and families facing eviction, homelessness, unsafe housing conditions, and housing discrimination across erie, niagara, genesee, wyoming, and orleans counties. Since october 2021, nls has supported the western new york eviction prevention project through new york state office of temporary and disability assistance (otda) emergency rental assistance program (erap) legal assistance funds. The project, in partnership with other civil legal services agencies, closed 22,811 eviction matters to date, with 42% handled by nls. In addition, 12,226 evictions were prevented and 3,917 were delayed, helping households secure stable housing and avoid homelessness.nls also provided civil legal services to vulnerable populations facing disability-related barriers, poverty, denial of public benefits, unsafe housing, and family law issues, including domestic violence. Through its public benefits and its medical-legal partnerships and related initiatives, nls assisted…
$14,229,618 spentof which $2,498,392 as grants$14,907 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $14,229,618.
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 $2.8M to $6.3M (+126%).
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 99% · 2018 81% · 2019 93% · 2020 92% · 2021 93% · 2022 94% · 2023 93% · 2024 94% · 2025 93%. 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 held at 5 funders, grant income rose $201k → $2.3M.
1 of 17 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC’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
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 75% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 88% · 2019 82% · 2020 83% · 2021 86% · 2022 75% · 2023 81% — 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
33% of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC draws 76% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $35k 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.
Government funding NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Social Security Administration$2.3M
- Department of Justice$1.4M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$897k
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 NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC (New York) receives grants from 17 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,020,072 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($11,264,074). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 17 organizations giving $15,020,072 in grants to NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $11,264,074 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEIGHBORHOOD LEGAL SERVICES INC 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 17 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