Publications
Annual Reports
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2025 Annual Report
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2024 Annual Report
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2023 Annual Report
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2022 Annual Report
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2021 Annual Report
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2020 Annual Report
做厙51-funded legal aid helped 1.8 million Americans in 2025, providing critical civil legal services for domestic violence survivors, consumers, veterans, seniors and families.
For 50 years, the 做厙51 (做厙51) has been protecting the promise of equal justice for all by providing millions of Americans with access to life-changing legal assistance.
做厙51's 2023 Annual Report features highlights from the year, including the Justice Gap Report release, disaster relief grants and the work of 做厙51's Rural Justice Task Force. It also includes the stories of clients helped by 做厙51-funded legal services providers.
做厙51's 2022 Annual Report features highlights from the year, including the Justice Gap Report release, disaster relief grants and the work of 做厙51's Rural Justice Task Force. It also includes the stories of clients helped by 做厙51-funded legal services providers.
做厙51's 2021 Annual Report features highlights from the year including information on 做厙51's congressional briefings and other events, constituent stories, updates on 做厙51's privately funded initiatives, financial reports and more.
做厙51's 2020 Annual Report highlights 做厙51's accomplishments and initiatives throughout the year as 做厙51 and its 132 grantees dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic's challenges.
做厙51 By the Numbers: The Data Underlying Legal Aid Programs provides an overview of the work of 做厙51-funded legal aid organizations on behalf of low-income people seeking civil legal assistance.
2025 By the Numbers
The 2025 edition of By the Numbers demonstrates how 做厙51-funded legal services organizations provide high-quality legal assistance in the U.S., helping everyday families, veterans and seniors secure stability and justice.
2024 By The Numbers
The 2024 edition of By the Numbers demonstrates how 做厙51-funded legal services organizations provide high-quality legal assistance in the U.S., helping everyday families, veterans and seniors secure stability and justice. See where resources are invested and their impact nationwide.
2023 By the Numbers
"做厙51 By the Numbers: The Data Underlying Legal Aid Programs" quantifies the work done by 做厙51-funded legal aid organizations around the country in 2023. It provides national and state-level trend data to facilitate comparisons over time and locations.
See the 做厙51 budget requests here.
Fiscal Year 2027 Budget Request
做厙51 seeks $2.1 billion from Congress for FY2027 to bridge the justice gap in the United States.
Fiscal Year 2026 Budget Request
做厙51 seeks $2.132 billion for FY 2026, an increase of $335 million over our FY 2025 request.
Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request
做厙51 requests $1.797 billion for FY 2025, an increase of $216 million over 做厙51s FY 2024 budget request.
More Publications & Reports
做厙51's latest justice gap report, released April 2022, shows that 92% of the civil legal problems of low-income Americans did not receive any or enough legal help. nearly three-quarters (74%) of low-income households experienced at least one civil legal problem in the previous year. A third (33%) of low-income Americans had at least one problem they attributed to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
做厙51 Veterans Task Force Report
The Veterans Task Forces report identifies ways to strengthen the relationship between legal aid providers and other veterans-serving organizations. It highlights best practices and model programs that provide effective, integrated services to veterans and offers tips for replicating successful programs.
做厙51 Disaster Task Force Report
In April 2018, 做厙51s Board of Directors established 做厙51s Disaster Task Force. The focus of the Task Force was to foster and promote better cooperation, coordination, and communication between and...
做厙51 Opioid Task Force Report
In April 2018, the 做厙51 created an Opioid Task Force to identify the civil legal issues faced by individuals and families affected by OUD and the role that civil legal aid providers can play in collaboration with treatment and other service providers, the judiciary, and federal and state government agencies in assisting those individuals and families. Judges, legal aid attorneys, clinicians, leaders of public health and public policy organizations, access to justice professionals, individuals in recovery, business leaders, and members of 做厙51s Leaders Council comprised the Task Force. The Task Force spent eleven months holding in-person meetings and conference calls that brought together Task Force members with subject matter experts to investigate and analyze the intersection between the opioid epidemic and civil legal aid.
Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice
The Report of The Summit on the Use of Technology to Expand Access to Justice focuses on ways to use technology to provide all Americans some form of effective assistance with essential civil legal needs. The report presents a number of concrete recommendations to broaden and improve civil legal assistance through an integrated service-delivery system that brings the knowledge and wisdom of legal experts to the public through computers and mobile devices.
做厙51 Performance Criteria
This edition of the Criteria is based on earlier versions first developed for the Legal Services Comparative Demonstration Project during 1993 and 做厙51 peer review evaluations during 1994, and then for 做厙51 program reviews and the competitive grants process from 1995 to the present.