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QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,468,296 to it, the largest being HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC ($1,036,130). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2024
$20M
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$1.5M
Net assets
$603k
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What Queens Legal Services Corporation does

Mission

Queens Legal Services Corporation is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purposes of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york city area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.

As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Housing assistance - we fight tenant harassment, preserve affordable housing, and defend clients in eviction proceedings. We also help tenants pursue rent overcharge claims and actions to improve housing conditions, all of which keep tenants from living in unsafe conditions and becoming homeless.

    $9,881,266 spentof which $20,244 as grants$9,144,561 earned by the program
    60% of program spending
  2. Other - we represent people in other civil legal matters, such as consumer, immigration and employment matters. In the consumer area, we defend individuals being sued in debt collection cases and enforce people's right to fair debt collection. Our immigration practice focuses on adjustment of status, naturalization replacements. In the employment arena, we help people get wages to which they are entitled and defend people's employment rights. We also help client groups assert their rights to habitable homes, decent schools and nondiscriminatory housing.

    $3,041,466 spent$2,814,707 earned by the program
    19% of program spending
  3. Income maintenance - we help people access and retain government benefits. Through our income security and benefits work, we assist clients when government benefits are wrongfully denied, inaccurately calculated, or improperly terminated; and we represent families and individuals for whom unemployment insurance, food stamps, medicaid/medicare and other public assistance and safety net programs constitute critical lifelines.

    $2,610,956 spent$2,416,295 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. Family assistance - our family law practice preserves families wherever possible, while providing our clients and their children with legal and social services.we help: victims of domestic violence obtain orders of protection and other relief; clients prepare guardianships or adoptions for dependent children; clients obtain divorces, separation agreements, annulments, child custody and child support; parents or guardians in abuse and neglect cases and at termination of parental rights proceedings.

    $906,416 spent$838,838 earned by the program
    6% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $16,440,104.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 ($13M) Expenses 100 ($13M) Net assets 100 ($3.2M)2020 Revenue 110 ($14M) Expenses 109 ($14M) Net assets 86 ($2.7M)2021 Revenue 116 ($15M) Expenses 124 ($16M) Net assets 29 ($915k)2022 Revenue 132 ($17M) Expenses 131 ($17M) Net assets 14 ($458k)2023 Revenue 140 ($18M) Expenses 134 ($18M) Net assets 20 ($628k)2024 Revenue 153 ($20M) Expenses 148 ($20M) Net assets 19 ($603k)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (153)Expenses (148)Net assets (19)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 2022 to 2023, from $11M to $17M (+53%).

$7.7M
$7.2M
$7.2M
$11M
$17M
$16M
201920202021202220232024
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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2019 19% · 2020 29% · 2021 26% · 2022 23% · 2023 23% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

22% of QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 5 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−$437k
’19
−$232k
’20
−$1.5M
’21
−$457k
’22
$170k
’23
−$25k
’24
0.0
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.

201920202021202220232024
Listed161614131314
Joined·+1+1+2+2+2
No longer listed·13321
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $209k → $174k.

From the IRS filings of QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION’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

QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% 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 QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION.

71%
largest funder
100%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 66% · 2018 57% · 2019 57% · 2020 72% · 2021 92% · 2022 92% · 2023 89% — 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.

Where its funders are

100% of QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION's grant income comes from New York funders.

IL
NY

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
New York out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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

QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION's revenue grew 53% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.0mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)9% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Government funding QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.

Federal$3.3M
grants $3.3Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Justice$1.9M
  • Department of the Treasury$970k
  • Department of Veterans Affairs$400k

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 QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
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

NY

Part of a family of 4 related entities

  • Legal Services NYC · exempt
  • Brooklyn Legal Services Inc · exempt
  • Lsny-Bronx Corporation · exempt
  • Manhattan Legal Services · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION?
QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION (New York) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,468,296 to it, the largest being HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC ($1,036,130). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,468,296 in grants to QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION?
HUNGER SOLUTIONS NEW YORK INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,036,130 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like QUEENS LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 5 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