Virginia · Public charity
Equal Justice America Inc
Equal justice america provides grants to legal aid and civil rights organizations serving low-income and disadvantaged people by funding fellowships for law students and early-career lawyers.
- $705k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,106
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $232,110
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 30
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $265k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Equal Justice America Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 25 | $705k | 24% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $829k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $673k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $840k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $588k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $133k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $743k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Bay Community Law Center | $529,641 | 7 | 2% |
| Legal Aid Chicago | $444,734 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Legal Services Inc | $395,942 | 7 | 0% |
| Texas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc | $247,191 | 5 | 0% |
| Ayuda Inc | $162,577 | 4 | 1% |
| Pace University | $156,016 | 5 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Legal Services Program of DC | $141,667 | 3 | 1% |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | $137,500 | 4 | 1% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $125,591 | 2 | 0% |
| Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc | $119,174 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 55 grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Equal Justice America Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · The Skadden Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · The Chicago Community Trust · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
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About Equal Justice America Inc
- How much does Equal Justice America Inc give?
- Equal Justice America Inc reported 25 grants totaling $704,591 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 30 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Equal Justice America Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (95%), Civil Rights (1%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Equal Justice America Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: East Bay Community Law Center ($530k), Legal Aid Chicago ($445k), Greater Boston Legal Services Inc ($396k).
- Does Equal Justice America Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Equal Justice America Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, The Skadden Foundation, Legal Services Corporation.
- Where is Equal Justice America Inc based?
- Equal Justice America Inc is based in VA.
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