Legal Aid Services Of Oklahoma, Inc.

Legal Aid Services Of Oklahoma, Inc. (doing business as Legal Aid Services Of OK Inc.) is a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Oklahoma City that delivers federal grant-funded legal services to low-income and vulnerable populations across Oklahoma as a prime recipient (80% of awards) and as a sub-recipient (20%) of federal grants. The organization operates 18 offices serving all 77 Oklahoma counties and maintains a federal grant footprint spanning fourteen distinct customer agencies, with particular concentration among the Internal Revenue Service, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

LASO's capability portfolio centers on direct legal assistance in five primary domains: tax representation for low-income taxpayers, housing and homelessness services, victim advocacy for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault, healthcare enrollment and Medicaid navigation, and legal services to veterans. As a prime grant recipient, LASO holds a $193,722 Low Income Taxpayer Clinics award from the IRS (CFDA 21.008) running through December 2028, providing tax representation and education to taxpayers earning up to 250 percent of federal poverty guidelines and English-as-a-second-language speakers across the Oklahoma City area. The organization also holds a $500,000 Veterans Health Administration legal services grant (CFDA 64.056) awarded October 2025 for comprehensive legal assistance to homeless and at-risk veterans through September 2027, a $750,000 continuation grant from the Department of Justice's Office on Violence Against Women (CFDA 16.524) running through September 2028 for civil and criminal legal services to domestic violence and sexual assault survivors in Oklahoma County, and a $125,000 Department of Housing and Urban Development Fair Housing Organization Initiatives award (CFDA 14.417) for public education and complaint investigation on fair housing rights through September 2027. LASO also holds a $600,000 annual cooperative agreement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services under the Children's Health Insurance Program Connecting Kids to Coverage program (CFDA 93.767), effective August 2025 through June 2030, deploying 40 trained enrollment assisters statewide for Medicaid-SoonerCare applications and renewals, and a $3.1 million CMS cooperative agreement for Health Insurance Marketplace Navigator services (CFDA 93.767) supporting healthcare.gov enrollment assistance across all Oklahoma counties through August 2029.

As a sub-recipient, LASO partners with the Oklahoma District Attorneys Council, the Oklahoma County Diversion Hub, and state-level agencies to deliver civil legal services to crime survivors in 40 counties (as of most recent award October 2024), provide legal assistance to persons experiencing homelessness, and support reentry through expungement and eviction representation. Recent sub-awards include partnerships addressing domestic violence prosecution support, Bureau of Justice Assistance-funded reentry legal services, and medical-legal partnerships under the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.

Customer concentration sits with the Internal Revenue Service (15 awards), the Department of Housing and Urban Development across two sub-agencies (12 combined awards), and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (5 awards), accounting for 64 percent of awards. Activity has been uneven over the past five years—six awards in 2022, nine in 2023, four in 2024, six in 2025, and two through April 2026—with three awards reaching ultimate completion in the next twenty-four months. LASO competes entirely in the federal grant space and does not hold federal contracts or IDVs.