Prairie State Legal Services Inc

Analysis

Prairie State Legal Services Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Rockford, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1977, 49 years ago. Its declared purposes cover crime and legal-related, which this site groups under human rights and equality. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Prairie State Legal Services Inc reported income of $21.9m and spending of $19.6m, spending 89% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $13.0m to $21.9m (+69%), an average of +14% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 93% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Prairie State Legal Services Inc sits at the 99th percentile: it is larger than about 99% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 97th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Right to the City Alliance Inc ($21.5m), Other Side Academy ($21.9m) and Erie County Bar Association Aid to Indigent Prisoners Society Inc ($21.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $355k (1.8% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $13.0m. At year end it held assets of $22.6m against liabilities of $7.3m, net assets of $15.3m. It reported 252 employees.