Utah · Nonprofit
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC (Utah) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,812,180 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($20,967,907). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $6.5M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $30M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Utah Legal Services Inc does
Mission
Our mission at uls is to provide high-quality civil legal aid without cost to people who are unable to afford legal representation or are facing disadvantages, ensuring meaningful access to justice, and promoting education, stability, safety, and protection.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Services to victims of domestic violence : uls represents people who are victims of domestic violence by providing legal representation to obtain protective orders in every utah county, except salt lake county where services are coordinated through legal aid society of salt lake. Uls helps provide safety and security for these low-income clients in divorce, custody and parentage actions to achieve permanent separation and ensure financial stability with spousal and child support orders. Uls also provides legal advice, information, and referrals in family and domestic law matters. In the past year, uls handled 2,888 cases in this area.
$1,678,908 spent33% of program spendingServices in other civil legal matters affecting people with low-incomes: uls represents people with low-income in legal actions involving housing, public benefits, and consumer debt defense. Uls serves tenants with lawful defenses to eviction or needing help with federally subsidized housing or habitable conditions. Uls assists utahns who need ssi and ssdi benefits, food stamps, medicaid, unemployment, overpayment defense, and other financial assistance. Uls provides protection for consumers against unreasonable charges, identity theft, and warranty issues. Uls provides legal advice, information, and referrals housing, public benefits, and consumer law matters. In the past year, uls handled 5,422 cases in this area.
$2,863,362 spent56% of program spendingServices to special populations: uls represents people who are part of vulnerable populations including older adults, native americans, and migrant workers. Uls serves people aged 60 and older by preparing wills, advanced directives, obtaining benefits, contacting adult protective services, and with housing, consumer, and property issues. Tribal court lawyers serve tribal members with outreach and education as well as limited representation in family and juvenile matters. Migrant workers receive help with wage claims, family law, immigration and public benefit cases. Out of the services provided to victims of domestic violence, other civil legal matters affecting people with low-income, and the case types noted above, uls handled 1,039 cases involving individuals who are part of a vulnerable population.
$559,636 spent11% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,101,906.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $2.9M to $4.4M (+52%).
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: 2021 81% · 2022 89% · 2023 90% · 2024 64% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of UTAH LEGAL SERVICES 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. 3 of the last 5 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
Pamela Beatse
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $1.0M → $5.8M.
3 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 UTAH LEGAL SERVICES 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
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 70% 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
99% 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 UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 86% · 2019 93% · 2020 73% · 2021 77% · 2022 88% · 2023 61% — 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
62% of UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC draws 74% of its grant income from funders outside Utah, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M 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
UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 9 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$2.0M
- Department of Veterans Affairs$486k
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 UTAH LEGAL SERVICES 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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 UTAH LEGAL SERVICES 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 UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC (Utah) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $29,812,180 to it, the largest being LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION ($20,967,907). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $29,812,180 in grants to UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC?
- LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with $20,967,907 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UTAH LEGAL SERVICES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 18 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