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NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,179,850 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ($663,756). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.2M
- Net assets
- $23M
What New York County Lawyers Association does
Mission
Bar assoc. For charitable/edu. Purposes with primary object of promoting the public interest.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
A core part of nycla's mission is its commitment to ensuring access to justice for new yorkers in the form of free civil legal services. Our volunteers meet the needs of indigent new yorkers in a variety of areas of law, both through limited scope and full scope representation. Fee dispute -part 137 fee dispute resolution program (fdrp) the New York County Lawyers Association's fee dispute resolution program exists pursuant to the requirements of 22 n.y.c.r.r. Part 137 (part 137), which provides for the informal and expeditious resolution of fee disputes between attorneys and clients through arbitration or mediation. The goal is to provide a private and economical means of resolving disputes in an atmosphere of mutual understanding. Under the auspices of the office of court administration, part 137 programs exist throughout the statenycla's part 137 program generally handles matters related to new york and/or bronx counties.
$555,032 spent33% of program spendingContinuing legal education - to make continuing legal professional education law-related courses available to members and non-members.
$309,792 spent$143,577 earned by the program18% of program spendingMembership and committee operations - programming offered to the community through career support, practice area specific committee groups, networking events, access to ethics resources and participation in the drafting of reports and legal analysis for the public interest.
$267,534 spent$124,593 earned by the program16% of program spendingCommunications - the nycla communications department develops and manages programs and services for the nycla community, made approximately 6,000 attorneys, judges, academics, and law school students. Through member benefits, events, communications, publications, and more, nycla helps members keep learning, stay competitive, expand their professional networks, and elevate their professional brand. Website- website provides valuable content, an interactive platform for our committees, and access to all that nycla membership has to offer. Library operations - to maintain a law library available to all members, the judiciary and government officials and agencies.other programs include minority internships, electronic newsletter, and association justice center.
$558,502 spentof which $16,000 as grants$44,440 earned by the program33% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,690,860.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $15M to $24M (+53%).
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: 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 36% · 2023 13% · 2024 10%. 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 7 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
Sophia Gianacoplos
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $1k → $210k.
6 of 16 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $743k from 2 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New York County Lawyers' Association Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION raised.
From the IRS filings of NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION’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 YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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
71% 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 YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 51% · 2021 43% · 2022 56% · 2023 48% — 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
75% of NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
85% of NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $165k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.
Organizations like NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION
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
62% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
70%
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
- New York County Lawyers Association Foundation · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
- NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,179,850 to it, the largest being NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ($663,756). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,179,850 in grants to NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION?
- NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC is the largest funder on record, with $663,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NEW YORK COUNTY LAWYERS ASSOCIATION 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.
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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 2018–2024), and the filings of 16 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