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

Start with the funders most focused on large crime and legal organizations, currently Legal Services of New Jersey Inc, Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer, Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation. 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 large organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

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

$3.5B reached 203 large crime and legal organizations from 4,389 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 · large

Who funds large crime and legal organizations

The funders that back large crime and legal organizations are specialists, not generalists: Legal Services of New Jersey Inc gives them 74.8× the national rate, with 90% of its grants going here. Large crime and legal institutions draw a deep funder base, 22 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.

$3.5B

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203

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The short version

4,389 funders gave $3.5B to 203 large crime and legal organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Legal Services of New Jersey Inc, giving 74.8× the national rate to large crime and legal organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Legal Services Corporation, at $878M.
The large crime and legal organization drawing the most is The 85 Fund, at $449M.

Funders most focused on large 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.

Legal Services of New Jersey Inc74.8×$67M · 90% of its giving Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer69.4×$99M · 82% of its giving Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation63.6×$15M · 85% of its giving Legal Services Corporation62.9×$878M · 73% of its giving Northwest Justice Project60.9×$7M · 100% of its giving Louisiana Bar Foundation57×$23M · 72% of its giving Neighborhood Legal Services56.8×$11M · 79% of its giving Illinois Equal Justice Foundation54.9×$21M · 69% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Legal Services Corporation$878M 2Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer$99M 3Legal Services of New Jersey Inc$67M 4Blue Meridian Partners Inc$56M 5Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc$48M 6Maryland Legal Services Corporation$42M 7Connecticut Bar Foundation$30M 8Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp$29M

Large crime and legal organizations that draw the most

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

193 other large crime and legal organizations$2.3B

The 85 Fund$449M The Just Trust for Education$153M

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a large crime and legal nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on large crime and legal organizations, currently Legal Services of New Jersey Inc, Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer, Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundation. 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 large organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: large ($10M and up). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to large crime and legal organizations?: $3.5B reached 203 large crime and legal organizations from 4,389 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.