Washington · Nonprofit
SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES
SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,945,229 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($1,773,889). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.0M
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $986k
What Snohomish County Legal Services does
Mission
Snohomish County Legal Services (scls) is a free legal aid program serving snohomish county residents experiencing poverty. Our staff, pro-bono attorneys and volunteers provide information, advice and legal representation to ensure meaningful access to justice regardless of individual barriers and needs. Each year, over 1,000 low income people in snohomish county receive help from the staff and volunteers of scls. Annually, volunteers give a total of over 2,000 hours of advice, pro se assistance and full legal representation.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal clinics - legal clinics are held regularly (weekly, bi-weekly, or monthly) to provide low-income residents of snohomish county private appointments with an attorney. Legal advice, assistance and referrals to other community agencies, where appropriate, are offered during these appointments and by telephone.
$471,259 spent31% of program spendingDirect representation and support - qualifying clients of the agency can obtain direct representation by volunteer attorneys before state and federal courts and administrative agencies. The attorneys and their own staff provide overall case management, including legal document preparation. Agency staff provide quality control. Full-timeagency staff attorneys provide both legal representation for clients who are victims of domestic violence, family law, and emergency eviction defense.
$621,224 spent40% of program spendingPro se assistance - participants in the divorce clinic receive assistance in completing a non-contested marriage dissolution. The agency offers classroom instruction, a forms manual, attorney services and assistance where necessary. Participants in the domestic violence services legal clinic receive assistance with protection orders and protective parenting plans for minor children. A bankruptcy clinic has also been provided for clients needing those services.
$445,952 spent29% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,538,435.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $670k to $1.0M (+50%).
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 53% · 2018 82% · 2019 39% · 2020 48% · 2021 56% · 2022 77% · 2023 85% · 2024 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $134k → $490k.
3 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 7% 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES’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
SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 91% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
98% 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 92% · 2019 95% · 2020 71% · 2021 98% · 2022 61% · 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
98% of SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $136k 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES: 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 SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES?
- SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES (Washington) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,945,229 to it, the largest being LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON ($1,773,889). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $1,945,229 in grants to SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES?
- LEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON is the largest funder on record, with $1,773,889 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SNOHOMISH COUNTY LEGAL SERVICES find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. 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 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