Connecticut · Nonprofit
STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC
STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,165,559 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($23,311,530). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.2M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $562k
What Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc does
Mission
Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc. SLS empowers low-income people in Connecticut to obtain justice by providing tools to address their civil legal needs. SLS provides its clients with high volume brief or in-depth legal advice limited case intervention alternative referral services web-based assistance legal advice clinics pro bono direct representation and access to self-help legal educational materials.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
SLS provides free civil legal assistance to residents of the State of Connecticut to the extent authorized by the Legal Services Corporation. The goal of SLS is to help clients gain a better understanding of their legal problem the legal system and how to achieve the best possible outcome for their legal issues. SLS is the first point of contact for thousands of low-income individuals and families who each year are seeking help with issues related to housing homelessness public benefits domestic violence and other family-related matters disability rights health care consumer finance fraud difficulties and unemployment or job-related matters.
$3,513,656 spent86% of program spendingSLS operates an extensive pro bono program whereby volunteer attorneys in Connecticut provide free civil legal help to hundreds of individuals annually. The objective of this program is to leverage volunteers to increase SLS capacity to meet the need of our target population for free civil legal assistance and promote greater access to justice for those individuals and families living in poverty. This program operates several dynamic pro bono projects in which volunteers are provided with a variety of pro bono commitment options. The goal of this program is to empower clients to make informed decisions to resolve their legal problem follow through with the prescribed legal steps given them and achieve a long-term solution for improvement of their lives.
$591,267 spent14% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,104,923.
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.
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 $1.2M to $3.1M (+156%).
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: 2019 89% · 2020 91% · 2021 90% · 2022 80% · 2023 78% · 2024 83% · 2025 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 7 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
Janice J Chiaretto
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $277k → $5.2M.
3 of 12 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 STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT 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
STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% 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
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 STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 95% · 2018 90% · 2019 89% · 2020 92% · 2021 92% · 2022 79% · 2023 82% — diversifying over time.
“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
100% of STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 92% 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
STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $128k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Against its field
STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 10 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT 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 Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% 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
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT 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 STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC?
- STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 12 organizations whose IRS filings report $28,165,559 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($23,311,530). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC have?
- IRS filings report 12 organizations giving $28,165,559 in grants to STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $23,311,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STATEWIDE LEGAL SERVICES OF CONNECTICUT INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. 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 2019–2025), and the filings of 12 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing