Iowa Legal Aid

Analysis

Iowa Legal Aid is a registered charity in United States, based in Des Moines, IA. 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, Iowa Legal Aid reported income of $15.8m and spending of $13.5m, spending 85% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $11.8m to $15.8m (+35%), an average of +7.7% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2023, when income rose by 41%. Over the whole period it spent 92% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Iowa Legal Aid sits at the 98th percentile: it is larger than about 98% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 96th percentile, and in the 97th percentile within IA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo Inc ($15.8m), Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc ($16.0m) and Center for Constitutional Rights Inc ($15.8m).

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 $318k (2.3% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $8.1m. At year end it held assets of $19.9m against liabilities of $6.2m, net assets of $13.7m. It reported 204 employees.