Vermont · Nonprofit
VERMONT LEGAL AID INC
VERMONT LEGAL AID INC (Vermont) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,150,740 to it, the largest being VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION ($6,468,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $12M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Vermont Legal Aid Inc does
Mission
Vermont legal aid provides free civil legal services to people throughout vermont who are poor, elderly, or have disabilities and who would otherwise be denied justice or the necessities of life. Through its health care ombudsman and long-term care ombudsman programs, vermont legal aid also provides information and advocacy for vermonters with questions about health care, health insurance, and long-term care.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The poverty law project provides the full range of legal services subject to income and substantive eligibility guidelines imposed by the relevant grants and contracts of the vla board. Significant activities include providing legal representation to victims of family abuse, tenants facing eviction, vermonters denied government benefits, and consumers subject to fraud and exploitation. Total expenses = 1,953,523.
$1,935,523 spent$39,705 earned by the program20% of program spendingThe health care advocate office acts as an independent advocate that investigates reported complaints from consumers of health insurance. It helps people with claims of denial of care, access to health care, billing problems, complaints, and appeals. It also participates in health insurance rate filings with the board charged by the vermont legislature with overseeing the rate of health care cost growth in vermont and the quality of the health care system. Total expenses = 1,786,164.
$1,786,164 spent18% of program spendingThe mental health law project represents the constitutional rights of vermonters facing legal commitment to vermont psychiatric hospitals or court-ordered forced medication for psychiatric problems. Total expenses = 1,058,871.
$1,058,871 spent11% of program spending1. The disability law project provides legal services to individuals with disabilities. Services range from representation for the purpose of protecting civil rights and combating discrimination, to assuring access to necessary services. Total expenses = 848,781. 2. The elder law project provides services to eligible clients who are over the age of 60. These services are provided through a variety of activities including representing individuals who seek help through the various area agencies on aging, dual-eligible elderly medicaid recipients, and statewide advocacy on behalf of vermont elders in the state legislature and with various agencies and government subdivisions. Total expenses = 774,578. 3. The long-term care ombudsman project assists residents of nursing homes and residential care facilities with quality of life or quality of care problems. The ombudsman is an independent advocate who helps residents resolve complaints and concerns. Total expenses = 970,969. 4. The housing discrimination law project is established to conduct a full- service, coordinated and comprehensive fair housing program under the private enforcement initiative of the u.s. Department of housing and…
$5,038,589 spentof which $48,000 as grants51% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $9,819,147.
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 2022 to 2023, from $4.9M to $7.1M (+46%).
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 71% · 2018 70% · 2019 72% · 2020 77% · 2021 77% · 2022 82% · 2023 77% · 2024 79% · 2025 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of VERMONT LEGAL AID INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (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 5 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $1.5M → $1.5M.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 VERMONT LEGAL AID 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
VERMONT LEGAL AID INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 54% · 2019 51% · 2020 53% · 2021 53% · 2022 54% · 2023 48% — 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
75% of VERMONT LEGAL AID INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% 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
100% of VERMONT LEGAL AID INC's grant income comes from Vermont funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $209k 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
VERMONT LEGAL AID INC's revenue grew 66% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding VERMONT LEGAL AID INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $89.1M on record — $5.1M federal, $84.0M state.
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$3.1M
- Department of Education$1.3M
- Department of the Treasury$759k
- Department of Justice$3k
- Contr & 3rd Party - Legal$23.0M
- Other Contr and 3rd Pty Serv$21.5M
- Ombudsman Activity$12.3M
- Other Grants$7.5M
- Legal Aid$6.3M
- Grants$5.2M
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 VERMONT 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 Vermont
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Legal Services Vermont Inc · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for VERMONT 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 VERMONT LEGAL AID INC?
- VERMONT LEGAL AID INC (Vermont) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,150,740 to it, the largest being VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION ($6,468,500). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERMONT LEGAL AID INC have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $12,150,740 in grants to VERMONT LEGAL AID INC, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERMONT LEGAL AID INC?
- VERMONT BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $6,468,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERMONT LEGAL AID INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Vermont. 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 10 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