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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.

$307k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$92k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Civil Rights$3.7MCrime & Legal$2.5MHuman Services$535kPublic Benefit$410kHealth$323kFood & Nutrition$313kEducation$140kEnvironment$139kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

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
$50,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 11%COMMUNITY SERVICE COUNCIL: $20k → 15%POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY & JUSTICE: $63k → 17%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $20k → 12%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $75k → 8%COMUNIDADES UNIDAS: $10k → 8%PARTNERSHIP FOR MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH OF NORTHERN NEW JERSEY: $8k → 16%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $550k → 14%POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY & JUSTICE: $50k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $25k → 8%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES BUILDING ECONOMIC SUPPORTS IN THE SOUTH: $50k → 23%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $450k → 14%FAMILY VALUES WORK: $20k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $20k → 8%SPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES BUILDING ECONOMIC SUPPORTS IN THE SOUTH: $50k → 23%MAKE THE ROAD NEVADA: $25k → 13%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $450k → 14%POWER COALITION FOR EQUITY AND JUSTICE: $13k → 17%CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $10k → 14%CHINESE-AMERICAN PLANNING COUNCIL: $10k → 17%PARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICA'S CHILDREN: $50k → 14%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP CHILDREN THRIVE ACTION NETWORK: $10k → 14%MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH ACCESS: $10k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
NM
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 37 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
51

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+51%

Still filing today

97%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthFood & NutritionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +99%
  • NM
    NEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $325k · revenue +162%
  • COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $319k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • NE
    NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -44%
  • AB
    A BETTER BALANCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +7%
  • BLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINAgraduated
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Colorado Center On Law and Policy

Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.

Crime & Legal
2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

5
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
6
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
7
The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic…

Crime & Legal
8
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

9
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

11
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
12
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. we develop practical yet visionary strategies for reducing poverty,…

Crime & Legal

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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Policy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Food Banks and PantriesImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr16%13%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/89
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,476

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
85/85
Grantees still filing
66/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $1,729,997 · OtherNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTERNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $117,670 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $129,222 · Other+28 more — $859,852 · Other+28 morePARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICAS CHILDREN — $1,500,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICAS CHILD…NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $150,000 · Human ServicesNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTERFAMILY FORWARD OREGON — $125,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY FORWARD OREGONPUBLIC ALLIES INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesPUBLIC ALLIES INCSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES — $100,000 · Human ServicesMississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc — $100,000 · Human Services+9 more — $143,333 · Human Services+9 moreNEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY — $325,000 · Crime & LegalNEW MEXICO CENTER ON L…COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $319,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVIC…MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC — $305,000 · Crime & LegalMASSACHUSETTS LAW REFO…SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $230,000 · Crime & LegalSHRIVER CENTER ON POVE…VIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW C…Michigan Advocacy Program — $95,000 · Crime & LegalMichigan Advocacy Prog…CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 · Crime & Legal+9 more — $185,000 · Crime & Legal+9 moreNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $190,000 · Civil RightsNEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN — $125,000 · Civil RightsNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $125,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $30,000 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $25,000 · Civil Rights+4 more — $62,750 · Civil RightsCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $230,000 · Public BenefitSCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC — $25,000 · Public BenefitINVEST IN LOUISIANA — $20,000 · Public BenefitFLORIDA POLICY INSTITUTE INC — $20,000 · Public BenefitALABAMA ARISE — $20,000 · Public BenefitFLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $100,000 · HealthHEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INC — $40,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION — $40,000 · HealthENTRE HERMANOS — $35,000 · HealthCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS — $20,000 · HealthKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $20,000 · HealthCalifornia Pan-Ethnic Health Network — $10,000 · Health+2 more — $16,666 · HealthFood Research & Action Center — $100,000 · Food & NutritionHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $81,495 · Food & NutritionTHREE SQUARE — $29,849 · Food & NutritionNourish California — $20,000 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS — $12,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,936,741Human Services$2,243,333Crime & Legal$1,619,000Civil Rights$607,750Public Benefit$315,000Health$281,666Food & Nutrition$243,344

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $1,729,997 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR AMERICAS CHILDREN — $1,500,000 over 4y, 21% of budgetNEW MEXICO CENTER ON LAW AND POVERTY — $325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $319,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC — $305,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCenter for Public Policy Priorities — $230,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW — $230,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER — $190,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER — $150,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $129,222 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FORWARD OREGON — $125,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN — $125,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetPUBLIC ALLIES INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNational Domestic Workers Alliance Inc — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ORGANIZING AND FAMILY ISSUES — $117,670 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetFood Research & Action Center — $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSPRINGBOARD TO OPPORTUNITIES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFLORIDA HEALTH JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetVIRGINIA POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetMississippi Low-Income Childcare Initiative Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetNATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT — $100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA BETTER BALANCE INC — $95,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMichigan Advocacy Program — $95,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHUNGER FREE COLORADO — $81,495 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County — $80,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $75,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS — $60,460 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY ALLIANCE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHUNGER TASK FORCE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTENNESSEE JUSTICE CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetChildren At Risk — $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHEALTH EQUITY SOLUTIONS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetENTRE HERMANOS — $35,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetILLINOIS COALITION FOR IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE RIGHTS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASA INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHREE SQUARE — $29,849 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake The Road States Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSCHUYLER CENTER FOR ANALYSIS AND ADVOCACY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVELA — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $21,028 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRESS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKENTUCKY VOICES FOR HEALTH INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAINE PEOPLE'S RESOURCE CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

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.

National Immigration Law CenterDC49× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

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no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 8%
  • Health Equity Solutions Inc14% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc8% of income from government
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
  • The Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey Inc4% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Diocese of Trenton2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 92 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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