Fund for Legal Aid

Analysis

Fund for Legal Aid is a registered charity in United States, based in Minneapolis, MN. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in February 1982, 44 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, Fund for Legal Aid reported income of $1.4m and spending of $1.8m, spending 124% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $1.4m to $1.4m (+3.6%), an average of +0.9% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 18%. Over the whole period it spent 101% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Fund for Legal Aid sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within MN. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Community Labor United Incorporated ($1.4m), Partnership for Civil Justice Fund ($1.4m) and Court Appointed Special Advocates of Southwest Missouri ($1.4m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 77% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $64k (3.6% of expenses). At year end it held assets of $1.2m against liabilities of $799k, net assets of $384k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.