"Nearly $240,000 in grants will be given to 14 Iowa legal non-profits that assist low-income people. This funding comes from the state's Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account program, which has suffered extreme decreases over the past decade.

So while this year's grants total $28,000 more than what was distributed in 2015-16, the funding is still less than what some legal service organizations say they need.

“Recent data shows that we turn away or underserve about 10,000 people who contact us each year,” says Dennis Groenenboom, executive director of Iowa Legal Aid.

ILA serves low-income Iowans in all 99 counties. It receives a large portion of its annual budget from IOLTA.
This year IOLTA granted ILA $238,878. The money goes to staffing the organization's 10 regional offices and to funding a legal aid hotline for older Iowans.
When IOLTA was at it's zenith in 2008 and 2009, ILA was granted $762,030 in both years."

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