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Grants paid by Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, tax year 2019
EIN 37-1188469 · Chicago, IL · Form 990, Schedule I
In tax year 2019, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation (EIN 37-1188469) reported 38 grants paid totaling $3,562,944. Dataset version 2026.09.0, built 2026-09-03.
Every grant, 2019
| Tax year | Recipient | Match | Amount | Type | Purpose | Source filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Prairie State Legal Services Rockford, IL | A | $645,000 | paid | To provide low-income people in 36 counties with representation on family, housing and consumer law issues and representation for senior citizens in northern and western Illinois. To serve thousands of low-income people in 36 counties in northern and central Illinois by providing legal advice, self-help materials, guidance on how to use the court system and referrals through a telephone hotline. To fund general legal services for hundreds of people in Northern and Central Illinois via a designated project point person and several staff attorneys. Services include cooperation with Lovell VA Health Care Center and making and taking referral across PSLS' service area. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation East St Loouis, IL | A | $636,391 | paid | To provide low-income people in 65 counties with representation on family, housing and consumer law cases. To serve thousands of low-income people in 65 counties in central and southern Illinois by providing legal advice, self-help materials, guidance on how to use the court system and referrals through a telephone hotline. To fund two medical legal partnerships with the VA Illiana Health Care System via Land of Lincoln's Champaign office, with the Marion VA via the Carbondale office. Additionally, a staff attorney will be located in the Merto-East area to coordinate with Scott Air Force Base. Land of Lincoln will also provide services to hundreds of people and will make and take referrals from the hotline across Land of Lincoln's service area. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Coordinated Advice & Referral Program for Legal Services Chicago, IL | A | $580,000 | paid | To help tens of thousands of low-income people in Cook County by providing legal advice, self-help materials, guidance on how to use court system and referrals through a telephone hotline and to support the development of a consumers brief services unit. To operate a statewide telephone hotline that serves as a primary entry point for the Illinois Armed Forces Legal Aid Network. The hotline provides advice, brief services, and referrals to thousands of qualifying active duty military personnel, veterans, reservists, and members of the national guard. To assist unrepresented parties with advice, information and form preparation at the Collections and the Domestic Relations Self-Help Desks and the Collections Self-Help Desk at the Daley Center in the Cook County Circuit Court. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Laf Chicago, IL | A | $362,000 | paid | To support attorney postions in the consumer practice group who provide legal assistance on consumer matters to seniors and low-income families in Cook County. To support the works of LAF's Veteran Rights Project, which provides legal assistance in the areas of housing, financial stability/benefits, health and safety, and medical and service records assistance. LAF will also hold medical records clinics and will make and take hotline referrals. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Chicago Volunteer Legal Services Chicago, IL | A | $173,000 | paid | To protect children by serving as Guardian Ad Litem in probate guardianship cases and as a Child Representative in domestic relation cases. To act as Guardian Ad Litem for adults with disabilities in Cook County. To implement a pro bono program to provide representation to low-income people on bankruptcy matters. To operate a general practice pro-bono program that will accept and place cases with over 100 trained and supervised pro-bono attorneys. CVLS will make and take referrals to the hotline. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Illinois Legal Aid Online Chicago, IL | A | $150,000 | paid | To support the development and provision of critical, reliable and user-friendly web-based legal information to lower-income and vulnerable Illinoisans facing legal problems. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Equip for Equality Chicago, IL | A | $100,000 | paid | To provide legal advice, information and referrals on special education legal issues through a statewide telephone helpline. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Chicago Legal Clinic Chicago, IL | A | $90,000 | paid | To provide legal education, resources and referrals for Cook County residents dealing with paternity and child support issues at an Advice Desk at the Daley Center in the Cook County Circuit Court. To provide direct representation to low-income people with family law issues. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Cabrini Green Legal Aid Chicago, IL | A | $80,000 | paid | To assist individuals in Cook County wishing to expunge arrest records and/or seal non-violent misdemeanor convictions in order to obtain employment and attain economic self-sufficiency via Advice Desks as the Daley Center, the Markham Courthouse, the Juvenile Temporary Center, 26th and California and community summits. To provide legal advice and representation to currently/ formerly incarcerated parents on their family and housing law issues. To provide legal informatin and know your rights presentations regarding civil asset forfeiture. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Center for Conflict Resolution Chicago, IL | A | $80,000 | paid | To assist thousands of Cook County residents in resolving a wide array of disputes through mediation. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Lawyers' Committee for Better Housing Chicago, IL | A | $65,000 | paid | To provide civil legal assistance on housing matters impacting low-income renters. To provide work with tenants, landlords, and the court to prevent evictions through negotiated settlements and securing emergency financial assistance for rent payments. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Center for Disability and Elder Law Chicago, IL | A | $55,000 | paid | To provide civil legal assistance to seniors on consumer issues via the Stopping Adult Financial Exploitation (SAFE) Project. To support CDEL's medical legal partnership, which has been in operation at the Jesse Brown VA since 2015 and to expand those efforts to Hines VA. CDEL will make and take hotline referrals. Services focus on disability and elder law, including adult guardianship, estate planning, housing, and more. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services Chicago, IL | A | $55,000 | paid | To provide legal information, advice and representation to vulnerable seniors in Chicago via the dedicated elder law center in the Daley Center. To provide civil legal aid to those seeking protect or access housing vouchers. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Public Interest Law Initiative Chicago, IL | A | $51,000 | paid | To provide legal services in Southern and Central Illinois using a network of pro bono attorneys recruited from PILI's judicial circuit pro bono panels, conflict panels, and help desk. A full time project coordinator is the point person and PILI will accept cases across the civil legal needs spectrum. PILI will also make and take referrals from the hotline. To support self-represented litigant help desks in four couties in the Sixth and Tenth Judicial Circuits, as well as in "Legal Help Within Reach" project, which brings lawyers from urban areas to rural areas to provide pro bono legal assistance. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Dispute Resolution Institute Carbondale, IL | A | $40,000 | paid | To help low-income families and children resolve custody and visitation issues through mediation services in the First Judicial Court. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Southern Illinois University School of Law Foundation Carbondale, IL | A | $39,210 | paid | To provide discharge upgrades and VA benefits appeals services as well as some family and consumer cases when Land of Lincoln has a conflict. SIU will make and take hotline referrals. To educate immigrant detainees in southern Illinois on their rights. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | John Marshall Law School Veterans Legal Support Center and Clinic Chicago, IL | A | $35,000 | paid | To provide discharge upgrades and VA benefits appeals services, John Marshall will make and take hotline referrals, and will build on their Urban-Rural partnership with SIU Law. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Legal Council for Health Justice Chicago, IL | A | $30,000 | paid | To provide legal advice and representation to lower-income families, seniors and veterans facing complex legal issues due to disabilities and special health needs. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Uptown Peoples Law Center Chicago, IL | A | $25,000 | paid | To provide legal advice and representation on housing and social security issues to vulnerable members of the Uptown community. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Domestic Violence Legal Clinic Chicago, IL | A | $25,000 | paid | To provide court-based self-help legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Life Span Chicago, IL | A | $25,000 | paid | To provide culturally-sensitive legal representation to Arab-American domestic violence survivors. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Chicago Coalition for the Homeless Chicago, IL | A | $20,000 | paid | To provide legal information on education rights to homeless students and their families, unaccompanied youth, educators, and advocates. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Chicago House & Social Service Agency Chicago, IL | A | $20,000 | paid | To provide self-help legal assistance on civil matters to members of the transgender community. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Community Activism Law Alliance Chicago, IL | A | $20,000 | paid | To provide family and housing law assistance at three community-embedded sites. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Loyola University of Chicago School of Law Veterans Legal Clinic Chicago, IL | A | $20,000 | paid | To house a Veterans Legal Clinic housed within the Community Law Center. The Clinic provides general legal aid services and partners with the School of Social Work to bring social services referrals and services to veterans with legal needs. The clinic will make and take hotline referrals. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Family Defense Center Chicago, IL | A | $20,000 | paid | To provide civil legal assistance to parents and caregivers wrongly accused of abuse and neglect. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Farmerworker and Landscaper Advocacy Project Chicago, IL | A | $15,000 | paid | To support community legal education workshops in partnership with the Mexican Consulate in Chicago. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Westside Justice Center Chicago, IL | A | $15,000 | paid | To support the delivery of legal information seminars to low-income people living in the North Lawndale and East Garfield Park neighborhood. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | The Hana Center Chicago, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To provide linguistically and culturally appropriate pro bono legal services to low-income, limited-English proficient and immigrant Korean American community. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Centro de Informacion Elgin, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To coordinate and host legal information seminars on a variety of topics for Spanish-speaking immigrants. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Illinois Institute of Technology Kent School of Law Chicago, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To provide legal information to self-represented court users at the Daley Center via law student-staffed Self-Help Web Center | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | James B Moran Center for Youth Advocacy Evanston, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To support the Expungement and Sealing Self-Help Desk located in the Skokie Courthouse. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Working Family Solidarity Chicago, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To provide legal information to the underserved communities of Englewood, Back of the Yards and North Lawndale via extensive community outreach, small group meetings and monthly legal workshops. | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Catholic Charities Chicago, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To provide extended representation civil legal assistance to low-income people with family law matters | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Metropolitan Tenants Organization Chicago, IL | A | $10,000 | paid | To provide legal information on housing matters impacting low-income renters | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Chicago Lawyers' Committee Form Civil Rights Under Law Chicago, IL | A | $9,663 | paid | To provide legal information to entrepreneurs, small businesses, and non-profits in underserved communities of color on legal matters regarding business formation, development, and management | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | Immigration Project Bloomington, IL | A | $6,680 | paid | To provide virtual legal information sessions to rural immigrant communities regarding immigration law matters | 201932769349300408 |
| 2019 | First Defense Legal Aid Chicago, IL | A | $5,000 | paid | To create legal informatin packets and conduct know your rights presentations regarding the civil and legal rights of those who have interacted with law enforcement | 201932769349300408 |
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