How do I find funders for a grassroots crime and legal nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on grassroots crime and legal organizations, currently The Aleph Institute Inc, Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc, Alabama Network of Children's. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.

What counts as a grassroots organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to grassroots crime and legal organizations?

$585M reached 2,565 grassroots crime and legal organizations from 5,082 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Causes · Crime and legal · grassroots

Who funds grassroots crime and legal organizations

The funders that back grassroots crime and legal organizations are specialists, not generalists: The Aleph Institute Inc gives them 222× the national rate, with 100% of its grants going here. These are the small organizations the big-institution funders usually miss, so the funders that show up here are the ones worth a small crime and legal nonprofit's time.

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The short version

5,082 funders gave $585M to 2,565 grassroots crime and legal organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is The Aleph Institute Inc, giving 222× the national rate to grassroots crime and legal organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Tides Center, at $17M.
The grassroots crime and legal organization drawing the most is Witness to Innocence, at $17M.

Funders most focused on grassroots crime and legal organizations

Not the biggest checks, the most committed: each gives this size and cause an outsized share of its budget against the national rate, shrunk toward that rate so a small specialist needs real volume to rank.

The Aleph Institute Inc222×$2M · 100% of its giving Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc203.1×$5M · 52% of its giving Alabama Network of Children's179.9×$3M · 49% of its giving Grassroots International Inc163.4×$3M · 43% of its giving Court Appointed Special Advocates of New157.3×$3M · 44% of its giving Minnesota Freedom Fund153.3×$2M · 64% of its giving Alabama Law Foundation Inc110.9×$975k · 61% of its giving Children's Advocacy Centers of105.7×$1M · 35% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

Real grantmakers giving the most to grassroots crime and legal organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).

1Tides Center$17M 2Texas Casa Inc$10M 3National Children's Alliance Inc$9M 4Children's Advocacy Centers$8M 5Legal Foundation of Washington$5M 6Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc$5M 7New Venture Fund$4M 8Illinois Coalition Against$4M

Grassroots crime and legal organizations that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

2,555 other grassroots crime and legal organizations$527M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a grassroots crime and legal nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on grassroots crime and legal organizations, currently The Aleph Institute Inc, Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc, Alabama Network of Children's. Donor-advised funds and mega-funds are excluded, so these are funders that genuinely back organizations your size, not pass-through accounts.
What counts as a grassroots organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: grassroots (under $1M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to grassroots crime and legal organizations?: $585M reached 2,565 grassroots crime and legal organizations from 5,082 funders. Money parked in the regranting layer is netted out.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings across recent fiscal years. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Size is median total revenue; cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File. Read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML across recent fiscal years, among (c)(3) funders and recipients resolved by EIN, with the regranting layer netted out. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.