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NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,146,583 to it, the largest being NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR FOUNDATION ($5,625,827). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$6.8M
Funders on record
28
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
$6.2M
22/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%
01What it does

What New Hampshire Legal Assistance Inc does

Mission

To provide civil legal aid to people with low income and older (age 60 and up) adults.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Nh legal assistance (nhla) provides civil legal aid to people with low income and older (age 60 and up) adults. During 2025, nhla closed 763 cases. Overall, nhla helped 3,080 people,including clients, clients' household members and people who received referrals. Nhla focuses our efforts on cases involving clients' most basic needs, including housing, subsistence income, access to health care,and safety from domestic violence. More information is available on our website, www.nhla.org.

    $4,876,870 spentof which $302,378 as grants$46,202 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,876,870.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($3.1M) Expenses 100 ($3.8M) Net assets 100 ($5.0M)2018 Revenue 115 ($3.5M) Expenses 109 ($4.1M) Net assets 89 ($4.5M)2019 Revenue 125 ($3.9M) Expenses 121 ($4.6M) Net assets 75 ($3.8M)2020 Revenue 197 ($6.1M) Expenses 129 ($4.9M) Net assets 99 ($5.0M)2021 Revenue 173 ($5.3M) Expenses 134 ($5.1M) Net assets 87 ($4.3M)2022 Revenue 169 ($5.2M) Expenses 139 ($5.3M) Net assets 85 ($4.3M)2023 Revenue 198 ($6.1M) Expenses 152 ($5.7M) Net assets 93 ($4.6M)2024 Revenue 219 ($6.7M) Expenses 158 ($6.0M) Net assets 108 ($5.4M)2025 Revenue 219 ($6.8M) Expenses 158 ($6.0M) Net assets 124 ($6.2M)
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Revenue (219)Expenses (158)Net assets (124)

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 $4.2M to $5.4M (+28%).

$5.3M
$4.8M
$4.2M
$5.4M
$4.7M
$5.6M
$6.0M
$6.8M
$7.2M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 52% · 2019 66% · 2020 53% · 2021 62% · 2022 72% · 2023 69% · 2024 60% · 2025 52%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$690k
’17
−$548k
’18
−$700k
’19
$1.2M
’20
$272k
’21
−$56k
’22
$360k
’23
$767k
’24
$796k
’25
5.3
months of
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.

Board chair

Anne Jenness

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed172225222828252826
Joined·+9+6+1+6+3+3+8+1
No longer listed·43403653
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 14 funders, grant income fell $1.4M → $973k.

5 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 20% 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 HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE 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

NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 78%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

82% 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 HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC.

50%
largest funder
78%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 57% · 2019 53% · 2020 42% · 2021 48% · 2022 44% · 2023 46% — 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

61% of NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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 NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC's grant income comes from New Hampshire funders.

ME
NH
NY
MA
IN
CA
MD
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
New Hampshire out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.2M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.

04Its place in the field

Government funding NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.2M on record.

Federal$4.2M
grants $4.2Mcontracts $0
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25
Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.6M
  • Department of Justice$600k

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 NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 15%Fundraising 3%

Governance

19
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

94%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

NH

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Questions and answers

Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC?
NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC (New Hampshire) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $11,146,583 to it, the largest being NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR FOUNDATION ($5,625,827). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC have?
IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $11,146,583 in grants to NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC?
NEW HAMPSHIRE BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,625,827 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGAL ASSISTANCE INC find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Hampshire. 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 28 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