Puerto Rico · Nonprofit
PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC
PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,631,639 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($99,464,783). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $23M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $100M
- Net assets
- $18M
What Puerto Rico Legal Services Inc does
Mission
To promote and provide civil legal services to eligible disadvantaged individuals and communities so that through education training and legal representation they have access to the system of law and justice.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The basic field grant is the major entitys fund that provides assistance in non-criminal proceedings for qualifying financial disadvantaged program participants. Some of the proceedings covered are family law domestic violence employment special education health housing law consumer rights enviromental law migrant farm workers right and community development. The basic program worked aproximately 21,000 cases for low income during the year.
$10,621,015 spent61% of program spendingThe legal service corporation required that Puerto Rico Legal Services Incprlsi designate a minimum of 12.50% of its annual funding to private attorney involvement effort encouraging attorneys in private practice to provide free legal assistance to indigent individuals and communities. The funding to private attorneys during the year provided services in approximately 9,600 cases for low income families.
$3,426,268 spentof which $811,774 as grants20% of program spendingLegal assistance is provided to migrant farm workers in the priority areas listed. During the year the organization provided services to various migrant workers cases.
$80,684 spent0% of program spendingDisaster Relief Grant
$206,499 spent1% of program spendingNon lsc programs
$2,965,437 spent17% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $17,299,903.
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.
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 $19M to $23M (+20%).
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 99% · 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 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
Hadassa Santini Colberg Esq
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose $12M → $17M.
2 of 6 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 PUERTO RICO 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
PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 99% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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.
Where its funders are
PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Puerto Rico, across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $25k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 PUERTO RICO 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 Puerto Rico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUERTO RICO 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 PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC (Puerto Rico) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $99,631,639 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($99,464,783). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $99,631,639 in grants to PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $99,464,783 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUERTO RICO LEGAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Puerto Rico. 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 FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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