Massachusetts · Public charity
Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund
The mission of the dow fund is to provide resources to ensure access to the legal system for asian americans who face barriers such as language, race, culture, poverty, or immigration status.
- $94k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $75,335
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $75,335
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 5
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $873k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 2 | $94k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $107k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $102k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $103k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $90k | 40% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $80k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Boston Legal Services Inc | $462,535 | 8 | 0% |
| Community Legal Aid Inc | $149,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Saheli Inc | $39,940 | 7 | 2% |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Northeast Legal Aid Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
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: Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund
- How much does Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund give?
- Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund reported 2 grants totaling $94,335 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (98%), Civil Rights (2%).
- Who are Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Greater Boston Legal Services Inc ($463k), Community Legal Aid Inc ($149k), Saheli Inc ($40k).
- Does Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Massachusetts Bar Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund based?
- Harry H Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund is based in MA.
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