Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC
OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,784,548 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($8,013,343). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.4M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $8.8M
- Net assets
- $-92301
What Oklahoma Indian Legal Services Inc does
Mission
Oklahoma indian legal services is dedicated to representation where federal indian, tribal and treaty law arise. Oils is a nonprofit corporation primarily funded by the legal services corporation (lsc). Establisehd in 1981, its purpose is to provide legal service to low-income native americans living in oklahoma. Oils attorneys provide representation with indian land issues, the indian child welfare act and tribal court civil and criminal representation. Oils provides legal services statewide to one of the largest native american populations in the united states. The organization is governed by a fifteen member board of directors, who oversee policy decisions.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
With legal services corporation funding, oils attorneys provide free and quality legal services to low-income oklahoma tribal members. Our attorneys are experts in federal indian law and in the courts of the indian nations of oklahoma. Oils helps tribal elders navigate complicated indian land problems. We also prepare end of life documents for the elders. Oils keeps tribal families together by ensuring compliance with federal laws meant to protect them. Oils educates tribal members about their civil rights including wearing indigenous regalia at graduation, asking law enforcement to investigate missing and murdered indian women, and informing officials about experiences with federally run indian boarding schools.
$1,188,041 spent$324,590 earned by the program58% of program spendingWith other funding, oils represents native americans in tribal courts with adoptions, guardianships, and guardian ad litem appointments. Oils assists tribal members with expungement of criminal records, which are barriers to tribal employment and tribal housing. Oils attorneys understand how to represent indigent tribal members with criminal charges in tribal court, considering recent supreme court rulings that have caused changes in jurisdiction.
$870,923 spent42% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,058,964.
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 2021 to 2022, from $265k to $767k (+190%).
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 85% · 2018 76% · 2019 74% · 2020 82% · 2021 86% · 2022 75% · 2023 79% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 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
Stephanie Hudson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose $85k → $1.8M.
1 of 9 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 OKLAHOMA INDIAN 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
OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 96% · 2021 89% · 2022 91% · 2023 93% — 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
50% of OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $283 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.
Against its field
OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC has grown faster than half of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $164k on record — $44k federal, $121k state.
- Department of the Treasury$44k
- Pmts-Local Gov't-Hlth,Soc Svc$100k
- Mktg,Res.,Public Opinion Polls$20k
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 OKLAHOMA INDIAN 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
98% 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 OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC: 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 OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,784,548 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($8,013,343). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $8,784,548 in grants to OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $8,013,343 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMA INDIAN LEGAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 9 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