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: Northwest Justice Project gives them 77.9× the national rate, with 96% of its grants going here. Large crime and legal institutions draw a deep funder base, 10 on average, so the competition for their attention is intense.
The short version
- 8,399 funders gave $8.1B to 830 large crime and legal organizations (large ($10M and up)) across recent IRS filings.
- The most focused funder is Northwest Justice Project, giving 77.9× the national rate to large crime and legal organizations.
- The largest non-DAF funder is Legal Services Corporation, at $1.9B.
- The large crime and legal organization drawing the most is Equal Justice Initiative, at $328M.
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.
Largest funders by dollars
Real grantmakers giving the most to large crime and legal organizations (donor-advised and mega-funds excluded).
Large crime and legal organizations that draw the most
Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.
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 Northwest Justice Project, Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County. 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 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 large crime and legal organizations?
- $8.1B reached 830 large crime and legal organizations from 8,399 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
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.