Massachusetts Legal Assistance
EIN 04-2790762 · files IRS Form 990, Schedule I
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 12 grants · $46.7m
Who it funds most
26 of its 27 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Massachusetts Legal Assistance's own IRS Form 990, Schedule I returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 27 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990 Part VII, tax year 2024, filing 202513019349300546
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
A year with no bar has no grants on file yet: its returns may not be loaded. It is not a year without giving.
| Tax year | Return | Assets, year end | Grants paid | Charitable spending |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Form 990 | $24.2m | — | $78.3m |
| 2023 | Form 990 | $26.4m | — | $76.2m |
As filed, in US dollars. Assets at fair market value where the return gives it.
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202513019349300546 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202432849349302153 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202303409349300735 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202223129349301617 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202143139349302414 | IRS batch file |
| 2018 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 201933169349306358 | IRS batch file |
| 2017 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 201843189349310369 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Massachusetts Legal Assistance made 159 grants across 2017–2024, totalling $295.5m as filed.
- Grants
- 159
- Total, as filed
- $295.5m
- Years
- 2017–2024
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | 7 | $83.8m |
| COMMUNITY LEGAL AID | 7 | $75.1m |
| SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES | 7 | $46.4m |
| MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE | 7 | $35.6m |
| METRO WEST LEGAL SERVICES | 7 | $14.5m |
| DISABILITY LAW CENTER | 7 | $7.0m |
| CHILDRENS LAW CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS | 7 | $4.5m |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC REPRESENTATION | 7 | $4.0m |
| PRISONERS LEGAL SERVICES | 7 | $3.8m |
| DENOVO | 5 | $3.4m |
| CENTER FOR LAW AND EDUCATION | 7 | $2.9m |
| VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER | 7 | $2.7m |
| NATIONAL CONSUMER LAW CENTER | 7 | $2.3m |
| MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN | 7 | $2.3m |
| PAIR PROJECT | 6 | $2.0m |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 21 | $22.7m |
| 2018 | 24 | $25.6m |
| 2020 | 27 | $33.6m |
| 2021 | 23 | $40.2m |
| 2022 | 25 | $48.4m |
| 2023 | 19 | $61.5m |
| 2024 | 20 | $63.4m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-042790762. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified