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Harvard Law Review Association

Advancement of legal study in support of harvard law school through the publishing of high quality legal scholarship eight times a year in periodical form, as well as the uniform system of citation (aka the bluebook) as revised from time to time.

$195k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$65,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$65,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$51M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Harvard Law Review Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $195k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Social SciencePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$195k100%
FY20243$195k100%
FY20234$260k100%
FY20221$65k0%
FY20211$65kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$585kCivil Rights$130kScience & Tech$65kEnvironment$65k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
MD
SC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc$130,00021%
A Better Balance Inc$65,00013%
The Bronx Defenders$65,00010%
Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center$65,00011%
University of Maryland College Park$65,0001n/a
Cair-Foundation Inc$65,0001n/a
Rights Behind Bars Inc$65,000111%
Innovation Law Lab$65,00012%
Justice 360$65,000113%
Communities for a Better Environment$65,00011%
Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of Harvard Law Review Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc$130,00021%
A Better Balance Inc$65,00013%
The Bronx Defenders$65,00010%
Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center$65,00011%
University of Maryland College Park$65,0001n/a
Cair-Foundation Inc$65,0001n/a
Rights Behind Bars Inc$65,000111%
Innovation Law Lab$65,00012%
Justice 360$65,000113%
Communities for a Better Environment$65,00011%
The Legal Aid Society$65,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harvard Law Review Association supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc: $130,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetA Better Balance Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetThe Bronx Defenders: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center: $65,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRights Behind Bars Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetInnovation Law Lab: $65,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJustice 360: $65,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCommunities for a Better Environment: $65,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Legal Aid Society: $65,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Equal Justice WorksDC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Harvard Law Review Association?

Find your warmest path to Harvard Law Review Association through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Harvard Law Review Association

How much does Harvard Law Review Association give?
Harvard Law Review Association reported 3 grants totaling $195,484 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Harvard Law Review Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (69%), Civil Rights (15%), Science & Tech (8%).
Who are Harvard Law Review Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc ($130k), A Better Balance Inc ($65k), The Bronx Defenders ($65k).
Does Harvard Law Review Association fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Harvard Law Review Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Equal Justice Works, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Harvard Law Review Association based?
Harvard Law Review Association is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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