Jacksonville Area Legal Aid

Jacksonville Area Legal Aid Inc., a tax-exempt non-profit based in Jacksonville, Florida, operates as a federal grant recipient delivering legal services, fair housing education and enforcement, and housing counseling to low-income and vulnerable populations across the Southeast. The organization acts as a prime grant recipient (90% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on victim services grants flowing through the Florida Department of Legal Affairs. Jacksonville Area Legal Aid holds no federal contracts and does not compete on contract vehicles; its entire federal footprint is grant-based, concentrated in two HUD programs and the VA's legal services initiative for homeless and at-risk veterans.

HUD dominates the customer base by award count. The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity has issued 19 awards for fair housing education, enforcement, and advocacy work (CFDA 14.417), and the Assistant Secretary for Housing Federal Housing Commissioner has issued 12 awards for comprehensive housing counseling services (CFDA 14.169). Together, these two HUD offices account for 93% of all awards. The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Health Administration has issued three project grants under the Legal Services for Veterans program (CFDA 64.056) to support legal representation for homeless and at-risk veterans, including housing law, family law, income support, and criminal defense services. The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs and Office on Violence Against Women have contributed four victim services sub-awards flowing through the Florida Department of Legal Affairs. Recent representative work includes a $125,000 HUD Fair Housing Organization Initiatives grant (March 1, 2026 through February 28, 2027) focused on fair housing education and enforcement in Northeast Florida; a $499,998 VA Legal Services for Homeless Veterans grant (October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2027) supporting comprehensive legal services to eligible veterans; and a project grant from HUD's Comprehensive Housing Counseling program (October 1, 2024 through September 30, 2025) providing pre-purchase counseling, foreclosure assistance, and homelessness prevention support.

Activity has remained modest and flat over the past five years (three awards in 2023, six in 2024, three in 2025), with only two awards completing within the next twenty-four months and thus facing recompete exposure. Jacksonville Area Legal Aid operates exclusively in the grant space with no contract infrastructure and no parent vehicles; its revenue model depends entirely on direct federal grant awards from HUD and VA rather than on task order competition or master agreement positioning. The organization's capability footprint is narrowly specialized: fair housing legal advocacy, housing counseling, and legal services for veterans, with service delivery concentrated in Florida and Northeast Florida counties (Baker, Bradford, Duval, Clay, Nassau, and St. Johns).