Missouri · Nonprofit
NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES
NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,598 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($57,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $228k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $171k
- Net assets
- $99k
What New Covenant Legal Services does
Mission
New Covenant Legal Services (ncls) offers high-quality legal services to individuals residing in metropolitan st. Louis, and who are on fixed or limited incomes. Our mission is to provide solutions to legal problems, and to achieve justice, in a manner that will demonstrate the love and righteousness of jesus christ to the world. Our approach to clients is holistic, meaning that we seek to help each individual not only in legal ways, but also in psychological and spiritual ways, all in partnership with christian counseling services and our affiliated churches in the greater st. Louis area.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Offers high-quality legal services to individuals in metropolitan st.louis who are on fixed or limited incomes.
$142,747 spent$52,216 earned by the program100% of program spendingN/a
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The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $142,747.
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 2018 to 2019, from $67k to $31k (−54%).
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.
77% of NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES’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. 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.
Chief executive
Al Johnson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2022: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell $38k → $27k.
3 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 68% 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 NEW COVENANT 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
NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
68% 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 NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 52% · 2020 30% · 2021 56% · 2022 37% — 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.
Where its funders are
68% of NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $54k that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from funders outside Missouri, across 3 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $116k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES has grown faster than half 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 NEW COVENANT 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 Missouri
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
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 NEW COVENANT 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 NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES?
- NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES (Missouri) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $170,598 to it, the largest being ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($57,500). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 68% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $170,598 in grants to NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES?
- ST LOUIS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $57,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW COVENANT LEGAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Missouri. 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 7 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