Public Charity

LONE STAR LEGAL AID

LONE STAR LEGAL AID, of HOUSTON, TX, is a Public Charity tracked in Imperigo's IRS 990 database. The 2024 filing shows $43.6M in revenue, $43.4M in expenses, $18.7M in total assets. 62 publicly reported grants to this organization, totaling roughly $130.0M, appear in IRS filings.

EIN: 741537787 HOUSTON, TX Legal Services NTEE: I80 Latest filing: 2024
Total Revenue$43.6M
Total Expenses$43.4M
Total Assets$18.7M
Grant Records62
Funding Total$130.0M
Filing Years2019–2024

Mission

LONE STAR LEGAL AID'S ("LSLA") MISSION IS TO PROTECT AND ADVANCE THE CIVIL LEGAL RIGHTS OF THE MILLIONS OF TEXANS LIVING IN POVERTY BY PROVIDING FREE ADVOCACY, LEGAL REPRESENTATION, AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION THAT ENSURES EQUAL ACCESS TO JUSTICE. LSLA'S SERVICE AREA COVERS ONE-THIRD OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. HEADQUARTERED IN HOUSTON, LSLA SERVES 72 GULF COAST AND EAST TEXAS COUNTIES AS WELL AS FOUR COUNTIES IN THE STATE OF ARKANSAS FROM 13 ADDITIONAL BRANCH OFFICES.

Where $100 goes at Lone Star Legal Aid

How Lone Star Legal Aid divides every $100 it spends, from its own Form 990 filings, averaged across 7 years.

$86 Programs the work itself
$14 Management running the organization
$0 Fundraising none reported

No fundraising costs are reported. That often means fundraising runs through a separate affiliated organization that files its own return.

Inside the $86 for programs

$86
Lone Star Legal Aid provides free legal assistance to texans with low income and limited resources
All program spending · Reported in the filing: 21,000 clients; 27,000 cases; 66,000 adults
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Source: Form 990 filings with the IRS, latest fiscal year 2024. Shares are from the organization's reported expenses. Data by Imperigo; not affiliated with the IRS.

Officers & Directors

DIRECTOR Amelia Ruiz Fischer
DIRECTOR Bachtuyet Nguyen
CO-CHAIR, DEVELOPMENT COMM Benny Agosto Jr
LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMIT Brenda Cherry
DIRECTOR OF LITIGATION Brenda G Willett
DIRECTOR Carlos Lopez Garza

Officer compensation and complete director data available with membership.

Top Grant Purposes

Civil Rights & Social Justice
$121,765,954 14 grants
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
$3,304,891 7 grants
Education
$1,278,445 8 grants
General Support
$1,135,991 17 grants
Health & Medicine
$341,000 2 grants

Financial Trends

Year Revenue Expenses Assets
2024 $43.6M $43.4M $18.7M
2023 $40.7M $41.1M $20.2M
2022 $43.5M $43.4M $20.2M
2020 $42.7M $42.5M $25.4M
2019 $23.9M $35.8M $17.3M

Between 2019 and 2024, reported annual revenue grew from $23.9M to $43.6M (+82%), with total assets most recently reported at $18.7M.

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