Legal Aid Of Arkansas Inc.

Legal Aid Of Arkansas Inc., a tax-exempt nonprofit organization headquartered in Springdale, Arkansas, operates as a federal grant recipient providing legal services to vulnerable and underserved populations across fair housing enforcement, veterans' legal aid, eviction protection, tax clinic representation, and crime victim advocacy. The organization competes for and receives direct federal grant funding (90% of recent awards as prime recipient) with a small subrecipient footprint (10% of awards), and operates through a subsidiary named Legal Aid Of Arkansas.

Legal Aid Of Arkansas Inc. draws funding from seven distinct federal agencies, with the Department of the Treasury's Internal Revenue Service (21 awards) and the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (8 awards) accounting for 95% of its recent award count. The IRS relationship centers on Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic (LITC) grants under CFDA 26.211 awarded January 1, 2024, through December 31, 2026, enabling tax representation before the IRS and other tribunals for taxpayers earning not more than 250 percent of federal poverty guidelines, including those for whom English is a second language. HUD's Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity office has funded fair housing enforcement and education initiatives under CFDA 14.418 (Private Enforcement Initiatives), with representative awards including a $425,000 Project Grant (April 1, 2026–March 31, 2027) for comprehensive fair housing enforcement investigating Title VIII violations; a prior $425,000 award (June 3, 2024–June 2, 2025) supporting targeted outreach to African American, Marshallese, Latinx, and Asian populations across Arkansas and tornado-disaster-recovery communities; and earlier awards under the Education and Outreach Initiatives cooperative agreement (August 3, 2021–August 2, 2022).

The Department of Veterans Affairs' Veterans Health Administration has issued three Project Grants under CFDA 64.056 (Legal Services for Homeless Veterans and Veterans At-Risk for Homelessness) — a $500,000 award (October 1, 2025–September 30, 2027) for direct representation, advice, education, and advocacy in housing law, family law, income support, criminal defense, healthcare access, military discharge upgrades, consumer law, and employment law, with a minimum 10 percent commitment to serve women veterans; an earlier award (August 1, 2024–September 30, 2025); and a prior award (August 1, 2023). The Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs Victims of Crime office has funded crime victim legal services through three awards, including a crime victims advocacy fellowship subaward from Equal Justice Works (June 1, 2023) that placed fellows and summer law students in underserved Black, Indigenous, or Other People of Color communities to enforce civil rights related to victimization. Legal Aid Of Arkansas Inc. also serves as a subrecipient under the Department of Finance & Administration for FY 2024 STOP Victim Services (December 18, 2025) and FY 2024 VOCA (Victims of Crime Act) funding (December 4, 2025), and previously received a subgrant for legal aid to domestic violence survivors and minority crime victims (February 1, 2024).

Recent activity shows six awards with ultimate completion dates in the next twenty-four months, representing recompete exposure. The combined dollars obligated across all awards total $9.7 million. The organization's grant footprint reflects specialization in civil legal aid for populations experiencing housing instability, homelessness, fair housing discrimination, and tax controversies, delivered through direct representation and community education across multiple practice areas.