Illinois · Nonprofit
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC (Illinois) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,363,968 to it, the largest being The Resurrection Project ($1,278,911). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.7M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $6.4M
- Net assets
- $3.3M
What North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic does
Mission
North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic's mission is to provide accessible, quality, equitable, free legal services in the areas of domestic violence, housing, and immigration to give low-income, at-risk community members access to justice and the opportunity to live productive and secure lives.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
North Suburban Legal Aid Clinic (nslac) provides free legal services to low -income, at-risk clients in the practice areas of immigration, housing, and domestic violence. Clients served by nslac's housing and immigration practives must live at or below 250% of the federal poverty level. There are no income restrictions for survivors supported by the domestic violence practice, as a client in crisis may not have access to familial assets. Nslac serves clients living in lake county and the northern suburbs of cook county. Specifically, nslac's service area includes geography covered by the rolling meadows and skokie courthouses in northern cook county, and the waukegan courthouse in lake county.
$3,961,992 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $3,961,992.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 2021 to 2022, from $831k to $1.6M (+87%).
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: 2020 26% · 2021 38% · 2022 35% · 2023 85% · 2024 75% · 2025 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Laura Ulrich
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 39 funders, grant income rose $59k → $1.0M.
13 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 22% 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 NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 funders by total. 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
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
88% 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 NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 84% · 2018 45% · 2019 53% · 2020 33% · 2021 28% · 2022 29% · 2023 17% — 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
68% of NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
96% of NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC: 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 NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC?
- NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC (Illinois) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,363,968 to it, the largest being The Resurrection Project ($1,278,911). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $6,363,968 in grants to NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC?
- The Resurrection Project is the largest funder on record, with $1,278,911 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2020–2025), and the filings of 62 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