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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 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,753,949 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($28,751,755). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$13M
Funders on record
22
Grants received
$31M
Net assets
$5.0M
10/22 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 68%
01What it does

What Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc C/O the Organization does

Mission

Enforcing and protecting the rights of individuals and families by providing accessible, creative, and high quality legal assistance and working collaboratively for systemic change.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. Philadelphia legal assistance center (pla) provides free civil legal services to low income philadelphians primarily in the substantive areas of family law, public benefits, consumer/housing and home ownership. Pla also provides advice and counsel to individuals in the range of civil matters where it does not provide direct representation. In addition, pla receives legal services corporation funding to provide representation to farmworkers in the commonwealth of pennsylvania in employment and housing matters.

    $9,561,689 spent
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $9,561,689.

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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 100 ($4.4M) Net assets 100 ($620k)2018 Revenue 111 ($5.0M) Expenses 110 ($4.8M) Net assets 128 ($793k)2019 Revenue 118 ($5.3M) Expenses 119 ($5.2M) Net assets 148 ($920k)2020 Revenue 152 ($6.8M) Expenses 145 ($6.3M) Net assets 142 ($882k)2021 Revenue 192 ($8.6M) Expenses 182 ($8.0M) Net assets 152 ($942k)2022 Revenue 210 ($9.4M) Expenses 207 ($9.0M) Net assets 216 ($1.3M)2023 Revenue 205 ($9.2M) Expenses 200 ($8.7M) Net assets 290 ($1.8M)2024 Revenue 244 ($11M) Expenses 235 ($10M) Net assets 404 ($2.5M)2025 Revenue 286 ($13M) Expenses 238 ($10M) Net assets 802 ($5.0M)
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Revenue (286)Expenses (238)Net assets (802)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $6.0M to $12M (+103%).

$1.2M
$1.3M
$1.5M
$3.8M
$3.9M
$5.1M
$5.3M
$6.0M
$12M
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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 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).

This organization
Typical peer · 268 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$123k
’17
$174k
’18
$127k
’19
$467k
’20
$657k
’21
$397k
’22
$460k
’23
$701k
’24
$2.5M
’25
4.5
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.

Chief executive

Maureen Olives

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.

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Listed353845433937334134
Joined·+10+8+1+3+4+4+13+5
No longer listed·713768512
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $42k → $5.2M.

5 of 22 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). Top 21 of 22 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

PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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.

93%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

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; 45% give in more than one year at all.

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

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.

ME
NY
PA
VA
DC

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

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’23
Pennsylvania out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $81k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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

Against its field

PHILADELPHIA LEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER INC C/O THE ORGANIZATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.

Operating margin19% · top quartile
Months of reserve4.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)14% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025

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.

Federal$3.6M
grants $3.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • 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

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 Pennsylvania

Nationally

05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 6%Fundraising 2%

Governance

27
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

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

PA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Community Legal Services Inc · exempt

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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 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $30,753,949 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 22 organizations giving $30,753,949 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.

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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 22 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