How do I find funders for a mid-size crime and legal nonprofit?

Start with the funders most focused on mid-size crime and legal organizations, currently Delaware Bar Foundation, Ach Child and Family Services, Jewish Community Center of Greater. 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 mid-size organization here?

Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.

How much grant money goes to mid-size crime and legal organizations?

$2.3B reached 1,081 mid-size crime and legal organizations from 6,957 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 · mid-size

Who funds mid-size crime and legal organizations

The funders that back mid-size crime and legal organizations are specialists, not generalists: Delaware Bar Foundation gives them 87.1× the national rate, with 96% of its grants going here.

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The short version

6,957 funders gave $2.3B to 1,081 mid-size crime and legal organizations (mid-size ($1M to $10M)) across recent IRS filings.
The most focused funder is Delaware Bar Foundation, giving 87.1× the national rate to mid-size crime and legal organizations.
The largest non-DAF funder is Legal Services Corporation, at $298M.
The mid-size crime and legal organization drawing the most is Atlanta Police Foundation Inc, at $31M.

Funders most focused on mid-size 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.

Delaware Bar Foundation87.1×$6M · 96% of its giving Ach Child and Family Services81.6×$5M · 99% of its giving Jewish Community Center of Greater79.8×$4M · 100% of its giving All Square75.6×$4M · 100% of its giving Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc74×$4M · 100% of its giving The Farkas Family Foundation73.9×$4M · 91% of its giving In-Q-Tel Inc73.6×$5M · 81% of its giving March for Our Lives Foundation73×$4M · 100% of its giving

Largest funders by dollars

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

1Legal Services Corporation$298M 2Children's Advocacy Centers$61M 3Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Inc$61M 4Connecticut Bar Foundation$20M 5Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp$18M 6Legal Foundation of Washington$16M 7The Ford Foundation$15M 8US Committee for Refugees And$15M

Mid-size crime and legal organizations that draw the most

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

1,071 other mid-size crime and legal organizations$2.1B

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a mid-size crime and legal nonprofit?: Start with the funders most focused on mid-size crime and legal organizations, currently Delaware Bar Foundation, Ach Child and Family Services, Jewish Community Center of Greater. 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 mid-size organization here?: Size is the organization's median total revenue across its filings: mid-size ($1M to $10M). Cause is its NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File.
How much grant money goes to mid-size crime and legal organizations?: $2.3B reached 1,081 mid-size crime and legal organizations from 6,957 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.