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PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION
PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,743,949 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($28,751,755). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 127 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 127 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The University of the Artsshared funderslocal
- National Legal Aid and Defender Associationportfolio match
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio match
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.
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 93% · 2018 89% · 2019 85% · 2020 76% · 2021 88% · 2022 82% · 2023 81% · 2024 78% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $42k → $5.2M.
3 of 20 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.
Left out of every figure on this page: $763k from 6 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The Philadelphia Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION raised.
From the IRS filings of PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION’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
PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 96%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 94% · 2019 97% · 2020 98% · 2021 94% · 2022 93% · 2023 94% — 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
56% of PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $71k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 20 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The University of the Artsshared funderslocalPA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders · funds 105 organizations near you
- National Legal Aid and Defender Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Tennessee Legal Services INCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Illinois Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Native American Rights Fund Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Philadelphia Cultural Fund Incshared funderslocalPA · backs 94 organizations that share your funders · funds 348 organizations near you
- The Lenfest Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 47 organizations that share your funders
- Grace S and W Linton Nelson Foundationshared fundersPA · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- The Leo and Peggy Pierce Family Foundation Incshared fundersPA · backs 64 organizations that share your funders
- The Allen Hilles Fundshared fundersPA · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.6M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.4M
- Department of the Treasury$1.2M
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 PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% 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
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Community Legal Services Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION?
- PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,743,949 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($28,751,755). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $30,743,949 in grants to PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $28,751,755 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. 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 20funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing