Illinois · Nonprofit
The Village Legal and Community Project
The Village Legal and Community Project (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,700 to it, the largest being LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS ($254,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $270k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $290k
- Net assets
- $62k
What The Village Legal and Community Project does
Mission
Our mission is to empower communities. We provide pro bono and sliding scale legal services and programming addressing economic development and life readiness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Legal Work: Provided brief advice and counsel, limited representation and full representation to 251 community members pro bono. Participated in 59 community outreach events.
$129,872 spent47% of program spendingFeather First:Provided brief advice and counsel, limited representation and full representation to 137 veterans. Participated in 26 outreach events specifically for veterans.
$74,918 spent27% of program spendingOther programming related to organizations mission
$72,233 spent26% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $277,023.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 2023 to 2024, from $51k to $99k (+93%).
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: 2023 73% · 2024 63% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of The Village Legal and Community Project’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 4 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
Joan D Clay
President/CEO
Board chair
Jose Arauz
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 10% 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 The Village Legal and Community Project’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
The Village Legal and Community Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 88% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 The Village Legal and Community Project.
“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 The Village Legal and Community Project's grant income comes from Illinois funders.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
The Village Legal and Community Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like The Village Legal and Community Project
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 Illinois
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
0%
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 The Village Legal and Community Project: 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 The Village Legal and Community Project?
- The Village Legal and Community Project (Illinois) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $289,700 to it, the largest being LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS ($254,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Village Legal and Community Project have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $289,700 in grants to The Village Legal and Community Project, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Village Legal and Community Project?
- LAWYERS TRUST FUND OF ILLINOIS is the largest funder on record, with $254,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Village Legal and Community Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Illinois. 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 2022–2025), and the filings of 4 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