Minnesota · Nonprofit
VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM
VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,493 to it, the largest being LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ($37,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2020
- $671
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $127k
- Net assets
- $10k
What Volunteer Attorney Program does
Mission
To provide pro bono civil legal services to income eligible individuals in northeastern minnesota.
As stated on its FY2020 Form 990.
Program
Volunteer Attorney Program: the mission of vap is to ensure all individuals in northeastern minnesota have access to justice by providing quality and effective pro bono legal services. Vap recruits private attorneys to provide eligible clients with legal advice, brief services, or full representation.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $231k to $17k (−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: 2017 71% · 2018 87% · 2019 95%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell $56k → $37k.
From the IRS filings of VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM’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
VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
76% 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 VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 44% · 2019 81% — growing more concentrated.
“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
95% of VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM's grant income comes from Minnesota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
Organizations like VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM
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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM: 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 VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM?
- VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM (Minnesota) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $127,493 to it, the largest being LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA ($37,400). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $127,493 in grants to VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM?
- LEGAL AID SERVICE OF NORTHEASTERN MINNESOTA is the largest funder on record, with $37,400 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER ATTORNEY PROGRAM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2020 (financials across 2017–2020), and the filings of 5 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