Legal Aid of Nebraska

Analysis

Legal Aid of Nebraska is a registered charity in United States, based in Omaha, NE. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in September 1965, 61 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, Legal Aid of Nebraska reported income of $11.2m and spending of $10.7m, spending 95% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $8.1m to $11.2m (+38%), an average of +8.4% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 19%. Over the whole period it spent 95% of the income it received.

Among 9,611 United States charities whose main cause is human rights and equality and that reported income, Legal Aid of Nebraska sits at the 97th percentile: it is larger than about 97% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 95th percentile, and in the 95th percentile within NE. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Economic Security Project Inc ($11.2m), Descendants Truth and Reconciliation Trust ($11.2m) and East Bay Community Law Center ($11.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 78% and program service revenue 20% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $217k (2.0% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $5.4m. At year end it held assets of $5.4m against liabilities of $1.0m, net assets of $4.4m. It reported 113 employees.