Who funds crime and legal
$22.2B reached 17,184 crime and legal organizations across the 2022 and 2023 filings. The money concentrates: the few largest organizations draw a heavy share of it.
The short version
- $22.2B in tracked US grants reached 17,184 crime and legal organizations across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
- The single largest recipient, Equal Justice Initiative, drew $326M, 1% of all tracked crime and legal funding.
- The most committed funder is Legal Services Corporation, which gives 59.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going to crime and legal.
- Most crime and legal money lands on organizations in California, 12% of the tracked total.
Funders most focused on crime and legal
Not the biggest checks, the most committed. Each funder's share of giving to crime and legal, against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank. The multiple is how many times the national rate it gives.
Organizations that draw the most
The crime and legal organizations receiving the most grant money, sized by dollars. Pick one to see who funds it.
Where the money lands
The states whose organizations draw the most crime and legal money.
Largest funders of crime and legal
Funders by organization size
Who funds crime and legal organizations at each size, with the funders most focused on them. Useful if you are small and the big-institution funders are not a fit.
Questions and answers
- What counts as crime and legal in this data?
- Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Crime and legal covers every grant placed there, counted by where the money lands.
- What is the difference between the largest and the most committed funders of crime and legal?
- The largest by dollars are Legal Services Corporation and Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, but they spread money across many causes. The most committed concentrate on crime and legal: Legal Services Corporation gives 59.5× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going there.
- How can a crime and legal nonprofit find funders?
- Look beyond the biggest names to the specialists, the funders giving crime and legal an outsized share of their budget, and to the states where crime and legal money concentrates, led by California. Both are listed on this page.
- How recent is this crime and legal funding data?
- It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.
More from the funding graph
Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission; where that is unclear we fall back to the recipient's IRS activity category. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.