Texas · Nonprofit
TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC
TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,428,932 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($113,287,941). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $49M
- Funders on record
- 67
- Grants received
- $155M
- Net assets
- $7.2M
What Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc does
Mission
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA)is a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote the dignity, self-sufficiency, security, and stability of low-income residents of Texas. TRLA provides free civil legal aid to residents living in the 68 Southwest Texas counties and represents migrant and seasonal farm workers throughout Texas and six other southern states. TRLA serves approximately 22,000 income-eligible clients per year. TRLA's civil legal services span more than 45 specialized practice areas and are organized around broad legal groups: Community Preservation & Empowerment, Economic & Social Justice, Domestic Violence & Family Law, Housing, Labor & Employment, and Public Benefits. TRLA also operates several specialized projects designed to address the unique legal needs of vulnerable communities, including the Family Defense Project, the Civil Rights Project, Medical Legal Partnerships, the Mental Health Legal Project, and the Texas Foster Youth Justice Project.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Legal assistance to persons financially unable to afford legal services.
$45,957,697 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $45,957,697.
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 $15M to $36M (+139%).
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 87% · 2018 84% · 2019 84% · 2020 84% · 2021 81% · 2022 82% · 2023 74% · 2024 91% · 2025 91%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 11 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $3.2M → $32M.
13 of 67 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 funders by total. 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 RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 93% · 2019 67% · 2020 90% · 2021 83% · 2022 80% · 2023 62% — 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
26% of TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID 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
TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC draws 80% of its grant income from funders outside Texas, across 18 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC is better cushioned than half of the 165 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 165 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.8M on record.
- Department of Justice$1.9M
- Department of the Treasury$1.2M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$932k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$685k
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 RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID 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
92% 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 TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID 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 RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC?
- TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC (Texas) receives grants from 67 organizations whose IRS filings report $155,428,932 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($113,287,941). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC have?
- IRS filings report 67 organizations giving $155,428,932 in grants to TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $113,287,941 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID 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.
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 67 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