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Center for Law and Social Policy
CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY (clasp) is a national, nonpartisan, anti-poverty nonprofit advancing policy solutions to improve the lives of people with low incomes.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $274,932 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $306,932 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $32,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER | $92,262 |
| COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES PLANNING PROCESS FOR CTAN PARENT FE | $52,670 |
| MISSISSIPPI LOW INCOME CHILD CARE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES BUILDING ECONOMIC SUPPORTS IN THE SOUTH | $50,000 |
| JAIL TO JOBS | $10,000 |
| OPERATION GOOD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NO MORE RED DOTS INC | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- NWNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +99%
- NMNEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY4× · 2017–2021 · $325k · revenue +162%
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC3× · 2017–2019 · $319k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- NENATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -44%
- ABA BETTER BALANCE INCone grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +7%
BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINAgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +26%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Center On Law and Poverty and the most unlike its peers is Louisiana Community Technical College System Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
85 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 85 of the 92 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICAS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Public Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds FAMILY FORWARD OREGON ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ALLIES INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES ↗
- Who funds Food Research & Action Center ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds A BETTER BALANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Michigan Advocacy Program ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County ↗
- Who funds BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds TENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Children At Risk ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ENTRE HERMANOS ↗
- Who funds ILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds CASA INC ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARE ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Immigration Law Center · Community Catalyst Inc · Center on Budget and Policy Priorities · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Center for Community Change · Food Research & Action Center · The Ford Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Center for Law and Social Policy funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Health Equity Solutions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton — 2% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.