# Atlas Commons research objects — civil legal aid capacity for Puerto Rico (FY2025) — context brief

Puerto Rico's LSC-funded civil legal aid capacity from the LSC Basic Field grant directory, with each figure's status labeled so a consuming agent can weight it correctly: the measured LSC records (provider count, awarded grant dollars, service-area types, and the Census-based poverty population LSC allocates by); one computed figure — LSC funding per person in poverty — a transparent ratio neither LSC nor Census publishes, with its formula disclosed; and the interpretive boundary (what this funding/capacity surface is, and is not). Source: LSC Basic Field grant directory. CC0.

Claims (warrant · source), each re-fetchable to verify:

- **2 LSC-funded civil legal aid providers received $14,913,391 in Puerto Rico (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **1,257,605 people in poverty live in the LSC service areas covering Puerto Rico (FY2025)** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory — poverty population (U.S. Census/ACS) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC grant counts by service-area type in Puerto Rico (FY2025): Basic Field 2, Agricultural Worker 1** — RECORDED · Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory (FY2025) (https://www.lsc.gov/about-lsc/who-we-are/our-grantees)
- **LSC civil legal aid funding is $11.86 per person in poverty in Puerto Rico (FY2025) — a derived ratio** — DERIVED · Justice Atlas — derived ratio (LSC allocation ÷ service-area poverty population, over the same set of grants) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)
- **What this legal-aid surface is — and is NOT — for Puerto Rico (the epistemic boundary)** — INTERPRETATION · Justice Atlas framing (over the LSC facts above) (https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/)

Do not take these on trust — re-fetch each named source. Full structured object: `https://justice-atlas.ryanjhunter.workers.dev/justice/states/pr.jsonld` · anatomy of the research object: see /commons/the-research-object

**Puerto Rico — every legal-aid indicator (typed)** (6): LSC-funded providers (distinct organizations) — 2 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; LSC service-area grants — 3 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory; Total LSC allocation (USD) — 14913391 — RECORDED — Legal Services Corporation (LSC) Basic Field grant directory…
**Puerto Rico — LSC grants by service-area type (RECORDED)** (2): Basic Field — 2; Agricultural Worker — 1…
**Puerto Rico — LSC-funded legal-aid grants (RECORDED)** (3): Puerto Rico Legal Services, Inc. — PR-1 — Basic Field — 14540452 — 1226156; Community Law Office, Inc. — PR-2 — Basic Field — 300331 — 25326; Puerto Rico Legal Services, Inc. — MPR — Agricultural Worker — 72608 — 6123…