Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc.

Idaho Legal Aid Services Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit corporation headquartered in Boise, Idaho, provides civil legal assistance to low-income Idahoans as a federal grant recipient across nine distinct federal grant programs administered by the Department of Justice, Department of Housing and Urban Development, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Department of Health and Human Services. The organization operates as a grant recipient (57% of recent awards) and as a subrecipient under pass-through grantees including Montana Legal Services Association, Idaho State Police, and Idaho Department of Health & Welfare (43% of recent awards), with no prime federal contracts in its recent footprint.

Idaho Legal Aid Services' customer concentration centers on victim services and fair housing. The top five funding agencies account for 89% of recent awards, led by the Department of Justice Office on Violence Against Women (9 awards), the Department of Housing and Urban Development Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (8 awards), and the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance (7 awards), with the Office for Victims of Crime and the Administration for Community Living rounding out the active set. Recent prime grant awards include a $413,704 three-year project grant from the Department of Justice Office for Victims of Crime (CFDA 16.582) effective October 2025 through September 2028 to deliver specialized civil legal assistance to elder victims of crime aged fifty-five and older experiencing abuse, neglect, fraud, or financial exploitation; a $698,857 three-year award from the Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.589) effective October 2025 through September 2028 to provide services in partnership with Family Safety Network and Rose Advocates addressing domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking in rural Idaho communities; a $317,053 grant from the Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration (CFDA 64.056) effective October 2025 through September 2027 for comprehensive legal services to homeless veterans and veterans at-risk for homelessness; and a $124,999 award from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (CFDA 14.417) effective March 2026 through February 2027 for fair housing education and public outreach. The organization also serves as subrecipient on an Idaho State Police project ($418,000 combined recent sub-awards) delivering civil legal services to survivors of domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking across Southwest Idaho, and under Montana Legal Services Association for tribal legal services representation to members of the Nez Perce, Coeur d'Alene, Kootenai, Shoshone-Paiute, and Shoshone Bannock Tribes since 1980, with attorneys providing protection orders, family law representation, and child custody services statewide through four tribal offices and the Duck Valley Reservation office.

Activity has accelerated in the past two years, growing from three awards in 2023 to eleven in 2025, with combined dollars obligated across all awards totaling $8.9 million. Only two awards face completion within the next twenty-four months, positioning minimal recompete exposure in the near term. Idaho Legal Aid Services operates statewide through seven regional offices and delivers services in multiple languages to populations including rural communities, tribal members, low-income survivors of interpersonal violence, elder victims, homeless veterans, and individuals facing housing discrimination.