Texas · Nonprofit
Texas Legal Services Center INC
Texas Legal Services Center INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,269,527 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($6,988,358). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.7M
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $8.3M
- Net assets
- $1.9M
What Texas Legal Services Center INC does
Mission
Texas Legal Services Center is a nonprofit legal aid organization whose mission is to serve the undeserved by making civil justice accessible to every Texan--no matter their ability to earn. We're a coalition of attorneys, paralegals, pro bono attorneys, partner organizations, and a team of support staff, working tirelessly to serve everyone who reaches out to us for help. Through advice, referrals, counseling, representation, and advocacy -- we help Texans navigate the complexities of the civil justice system.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Texas Legal Services Center delivers legal aid services to vulnerable Texans, statewide, through different programs that serve crime victims, families, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities. We offer traditional legal representation in many cases and leverage technology to provide robust access to legal advice and information to Texans through telephone hotlines and website chat services.
$8,929,278 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,929,278.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $2.3M to $7.3M (+219%).
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 85% · 2018 97% · 2019 86% · 2020 78% · 2021 95% · 2022 98% · 2023 95% · 2024 91% · 2025 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Texas Legal Services Center INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Karen Miller
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $195k → $2.1M.
3 of 11 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 Texas Legal Services Center 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
Texas Legal Services Center INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 95%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
93% 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 Texas Legal Services Center INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 62% · 2019 92% · 2020 74% · 2021 73% · 2022 89% · 2023 87% — 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
50% of Texas Legal Services Center INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
91% of Texas Legal Services Center INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
Texas Legal Services Center INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Texas Legal Services Center INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.3M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.9M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$710k
- Department of Justice$700k
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 Texas Legal Services Center 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 Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Texas Legal Services Center 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 Texas Legal Services Center INC?
- Texas Legal Services Center INC (Texas) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,269,527 to it, the largest being Texas Access to Justice Foundation ($6,988,358). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Texas Legal Services Center INC have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $8,269,527 in grants to Texas Legal Services Center INC, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Texas Legal Services Center INC?
- Texas Access to Justice Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $6,988,358 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Texas Legal Services Center INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 11 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