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 Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc, Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates, Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc. 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 where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.

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

$2.4B reached 6,955 grassroots crime and legal organizations from 11,966 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: Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc gives them 278.5× the national rate, with 84% 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.

$2.4B

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6,955

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The short version

11,966 funders gave $2.4B to 6,955 grassroots crime and legal organizations (grassroots (under $1M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc, giving 278.5× the national rate to grassroots crime and legal organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc, at $73M.
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.

Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc278.5×$14M · 84% of its giving Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates247.2×$15M · 72% of its giving Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc244.3×$5M · 100% of its giving National Policing Institute243.8×$5M · 99% of its giving Court Appointed Special Advocates of New Jersey Inc241.8×$12M · 73% of its giving Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center233.9×$4M · 100% of its giving National Institute for Trial Advocacy216.3×$4M · 100% of its giving Kentucky Casa Network Inc208.9×$7M · 69% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc$73M 2Texas Casa Inc$44M 3National Children's Alliance Inc$39M 4Legal Foundation of Washington$26M 5Tides Center$24M 6Illinois Coalition Against Sexual Assault$20M 7The Florida Bar Foundation Inc$20M 8Public Welfare Foundation Inc$16M

Grassroots crime and legal organizations that draw the most

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

6,945 other grassroots crime and legal organizations$2.3B

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 Alabama Network of Children's Advocacy Centers Inc, Illinois Association of Court Appointed Special Advocates, Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc. 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 where each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear.
How much grant money goes to grassroots crime and legal organizations?: $2.4B reached 6,955 grassroots crime and legal organizations from 11,966 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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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; each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear. 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.