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New York legal aid societies

There are 193 legal aid services in New York. Combined, these New Yorker legal aid societies employ 10,805 people, earn more than $2 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $2 billion.
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Legal aid societies by major New York cities

Metro areaNonprofitsRevenues
New York City
 
140
 
$1,461,871,098
Albany, NY
 
14
 
$23,505,078
Rochester, NY
 
10
 
$32,964,203
Buffalo
 
10
 
$65,213,328
Syracuse
 
8
 
$30,810,687
Poughkeepsie
 
3
 
$6,308,545
Kingston
 
1
 
$35,620
Elmira
 
1
 
$766,790
Binghamton
 
1
 
$497,384
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Job trends for New York legal aid societies

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
15
1-10
 
33
11-25
 
17
26-100
 
36
101 to 1,000
 
26
1,000+
 
1
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Sizes of legal aid societies in New York

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
40
$250k to $1M
 
20
$1M to $5M
 
39
$5M to $25M
 
37
$25M to $100M
 
11
$100M+
 
2
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Directory of legal aid societies in New York

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1-20 of 193

Vera Institute of Justice

The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.
Revenue
$263.2m
Assets
$256.3m
Employees
471
EIN
13-1941627
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Urban Justice Center

Urban Justice Center advocates for marginalized communities, providing legal services and mentorship while promoting systemic change for a just society.
Revenue
$32.5m
Assets
$30.3m
Employees
172
EIN
13-3442022
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Pro Bono Net (PBN)

Pro Bono Net is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to justice through innovative uses of technology and increased volunteer lawyer participation.
Revenue
$6.1m
Assets
$3.3m
Employees
35
EIN
06-1521179
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation

To advance social and economic justice by empowering communities through innovative, collaborative, neighborhood-based legal representation and advocacy.
Revenue
$12.6m
Assets
$7.8m
Employees
94
EIN
13-2605599
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Appellate Advocates

Appellate Advocates provides high-quality legal representation to indigents who are appealing judgments of criminal conviction in New York City.
Revenue
$15.4m
Assets
$10.3m
Employees
0
EIN
11-3305212
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The City Bar Fund

The City Bar Fund is the nonprofit 501(c)(3) arm of the New York City Bar Association aimed at engaging and supporting the legal profession in advancing social justice.
Revenue
$10.1m
Assets
$17.1m
Employees
68
EIN
13-6003018
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County

Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County provides legal assistance to indigent individuals, prioritizing defense aid to repeat felony offenders.
Revenue
$24.7m
Assets
$8.9m
Employees
243
EIN
11-1844160
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Nassau-Suffolk Law Services

Nassau Suffolk Law Services' mission is to provide quality legal services in civil matters in a manner that respects the individual dignity of low income and disabled individuals and helps insure that they are afforded the full protection and benefits.
Revenue
$16.5m
Assets
$12.7m
Employees
171
EIN
11-2125411
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County

Legal representation for indigent Westchester residents charged with felony crimes and mandated constitutional law protection, based in White Plains.
Revenue
$16.4m
Assets
$16.9m
Employees
107
EIN
13-2503820
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lawyers for Children

Free legal advocacy and social work for children in NY experiencing maltreatment, foster care, parental rights termination, custody disputes, adoption or youth justice.
Revenue
$9.1m
Assets
$9.5m
Employees
74
EIN
13-3202043
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Legal Services for New York City (LSNYC)

Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low income people in New York City. Legal Services NYC fights poverty and seeks racial, social, and economic justice for low-income New Yorkers.
Revenue
$12.5m
Assets
$39.4m
Employees
140
EIN
13-2600199
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Equal Justice USA (EJUSA)

Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) is a national organization that works to make the criminal justice system more fair, effective and humane, starting with repealing the death penalty and increasing services for families of homicide victims.
Revenue
$5.1m
Assets
$9.1m
Employees
35
EIN
26-1316408
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Office Of The Appellate Defender

Provides pro bono appellate/post-conviction representation to low-income clients. Trains lawyers in criminal appellate/post-conviction advocacy. Located in New York, NY.
Revenue
$6.4m
Assets
$7.2m
Employees
40
EIN
13-3468351
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Neighborhood Defender Service

Neighborhood Defender Service is known nationally and internationally as a leading innovator in holistic public defense practice, with a dedicated staff committed to providing the highest quality legal representation to the residents of upper manhattan, n....
Revenue
$35.2m
Assets
$10.6m
Employees
352
EIN
06-1296692
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Partners for Justice

Partners for Justice empowers low-income people to maintain homes, families, and property by placing non-lawyer advocates in legal organizations.
Revenue
$6.1m
Assets
$5.0m
Employees
70
EIN
82-1202125
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Legal Services Nyc (LSNYC)

Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in New York City. The community-based organization serves more than 100,000 clients annually.
Revenue
$16.8m
Assets
$11.0m
Employees
119
EIN
13-2605604
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Bronx Legal Services

Bronx Legal Services provides legal assistance in noncriminal proceedings to indigent persons in NYC, including consumer, immigration, and family law matters.
Revenue
$24.7m
Assets
$11.8m
Employees
192
EIN
16-1759590
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Legal Aid Society of Nassau County

The Legal Aid Society of Nassau County provides free legal representation to persons who are unable to hire attorneys and are facing criminal prosecution by the State of New York in Nassau County.
Revenue
$10.7m
Assets
$817.3k
Employees
95
EIN
11-1666836
IRS type
501(c)(3)

New York City Criminal Justice Agency (CJA)

The mission of the New York City Criminal Justice Agency, Inc., is to assist the courts and the City in reducing unnecessary pretrial detention.
Revenue
$34.4m
Assets
$24.7m
Employees
328
EIN
13-2900682
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Brooklyn Defender Services (BDS)

The mission of Brooklyn Defender Services is to provide high quality legal representation and related services to people who cannot afford to retain an attorney.
Revenue
$75.6m
Assets
$53.0m
Employees
612
EIN
11-3305406
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "I80: Legal Services" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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