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Neighborhood Legal Services Association

EIN 25-1157129Human and Civil Rights Pennsylvania Mid-sized

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Equal treatment under the law

Neighborhood Legal Services Association (NLSA) was established in 1966 as a non-profit, public interest law firm to provide civil legal assistance to poor and vulnerable residents of Allegheny (and later) Beaver, Butler and Lawrence Counties. Staffed by highly qualified lawyers, deeply committed to the practice of poverty law, NLSA attorneys sacrifice higher salaries available to private practitioners and lawyers employed in the public sector in order to provide civil legal assistance to people who cannot afford a lawyer. All of the cases that NLSA handles have reached a crisis stage that threatens the fundamental safety and security of low-income individuals living in the region. Since 1966, NLSA has provided civil legal services to over 1.1 million low-income clients and victims of domestic violence who would otherwise have been denied access to the justice system.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

86.50Overall score
out of 100

87.03Financial score
out of 100

86.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$4,163,439

Total expenses · USD$4,136,700

Program expenses

$3,689,936.40 recorded amount

89.2%

Fundraising expenses

$124,101.00 recorded amount

3.0%

Administrative expenses

$314,389.20 recorded amount

7.6%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.02 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Robert Racunas
Recorded compensation: $150,106.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 3.62%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for Neighborhood Legal Services Association
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	86.0
`category` Category	Human and Civil Rights
`description` Mission & description	Neighborhood Legal Services Association (NLSA) was established in 1966 as a non-profit, public interest law firm to provide civil legal assistance to poor and vulnerable residents of Allegheny (and later) Beaver, Butler and Lawrence Counties. Staffed by highly qualified lawyers, deeply committed to the practice of poverty law, NLSA attorneys sacrifice higher salaries available to private practitioners and lawyers employed in the public sector in order to provide civil legal assistance to people who cannot afford a lawyer. All of the cases that NLSA handles have reached a crisis stage that threatens the fundamental safety and security of low-income individuals living in the region. Since 1966, NLSA has provided civil legal services to over 1.1 million low-income clients and victims of domestic violence who would otherwise have been denied access to the justice system.
`ein` EIN	25-1157129
`tot_exp` Total expenses	4136700.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.076
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.02
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.03
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.892
`fscore` Financial score	87.03
`leader` Recorded leader	Robert Racunas
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	150106.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.0362
`motto` Tagline	Equal treatment under the law
`name` Charity name	Neighborhood Legal Services Association
`tot_rev` Total revenue	4163439.0
`score` Overall score	86.5
`state` State code	PA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Advocacy and Education
`size` Source size label	mid
`program_exp` Program expenses	3689936.4
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	124101.0
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	314389.2

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 25-1157129
Source category: Human and Civil Rights
Source subcategory: Advocacy and Education
Recorded location: Pennsylvania (PA)
Expense-based size: Mid-sized
$3.5M–$13.5M in total expenses · source label: mid

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.