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VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,231 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $3.2M
- Funders on record
- 24
- Grants received
- $3.9M
- Net assets
- $3.2M
What Volunteer Legal Services Project of Monroe County Inc does
Mission
Vlsp works to maximize utilization of monroe county's private attorneys in the delivery of civil legal services to the indigent. We recruit, train, and support voluntter lawyers with the expertise our clients need to resolve serious legal problems. The vlsp mission is to improve the quality of life of low-income people in monroe county by ensuring equal access to justice.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Program
The organization advances equal justice in greater rochester by mobilizing a uniquely large, expertly mentored network of 1,300+ volunteer attorneys to deliver free, high-quality civil legal help to people who can't afford counsel. Each year, our staff and pro bono partners serve and benefit roughly 20,000 community members through representation, clinics, and advice across critical life-impacting issues-immigration, eviction and housing stability, discrimination, domestic violence, child custody and support, bankruptcy and debt relief, foreclosure prevention, employment, elder law, and more-ensuring that families can protect their homes, livelihoods, and safety.
$2,863,967 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,863,967.
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 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $3.9M (+86%).
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 69% · 2021 68% · 2022 78% · 2023 84% · 2024 45% · 2025 58%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Chief executive
Tina M Foster
Executive director
Board chair
Lesley E Niebel Esq
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $45k → $295k.
5 of 24 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $6k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Monroe County Bar Center for Education). These are real filings, and they are not money VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC raised.
From the IRS filings of VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY 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
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
77% 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 LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 68% · 2019 35% · 2020 26% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 24% — 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
69% of VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% 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
67% of VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $1.3M that is directly attributable, 93% of it comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 852 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 852 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
89% 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
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Questions and answers
- Who funds VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC?
- VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC (New York) receives grants from 24 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,897,231 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($2,000,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC have?
- IRS filings report 24 organizations giving $3,897,231 in grants to VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VOLUNTEER LEGAL SERVICES PROJECT OF MONROE COUNTY INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 24 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