· Public charity
Law Rocks Inc
The specific purpose of this organization is to promote music education for underprivileged youth and raise funds for local nonprofit organizations by combining the power of music and the generosity of the global legal community.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $134k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KETCHUM DOWNTOWN YMCA | $61,907 |
| GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOUSE | $48,818 |
| LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK | $40,949 |
| THE ACCESS PROJECT INC | $40,108 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI | $33,346 |
| MENDING KIDS | $29,598 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY | $28,547 |
| ALICE COOPER SOLID ROCK TEEN CENTERS | $23,000 |
| CHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION | $22,961 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO | $18,988 |
| NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $18,088 |
| THE ARC OF THE EAST BAY | $17,280 |
| BELONG KITCHEN | $17,222 |
| LEGAL AID DC | $15,047 |
| ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN | $14,875 |
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 (FY17–24, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
29 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 24 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k 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
- AFAdvocates for Children of New York5× · 2017–2023 · $136k · revenue +77%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +13%
- CFCHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- OBOPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +52% · 78% of their budget
- EHEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $89k · revenue +54%
- WIWIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue -67% · 34% of their budget
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.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.
The legal action center (lac) uses legal policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity, and restore opportunity for people with arrest and conviction records, substance use disorders, and hiv or aids.
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
DC Affordable Law Firm delivers accessible justice to modest-income DC residents who do not qualify for traditional sources of free civil legal services and cannot afford standard representation. Our innovative programming expands access…
The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
The justice & diversity center (jdc) advances fairness and equality by providing pro bono legal services to low-income people and educational opportunities that foster diversity in the legal profession.
The district of columbia bar foundation was established to raise funds for organizations in the district that provide hands-on legal services to residents who are unable to afford legal assistance.
The mission of san diego volunteer lawyer program, inc. is to provide equal access to the justice system by serving as a bridge between indigent and other disadvantaged people in san diego county and the volunteer lawyers who are willing…
Public counsel is a nonprofit public interest law firm dedicated to advancing civil rights and racial and economic justice, as well as to amplifying the power of our clients through comprehensive legal advocacy. (see sch o for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Operation Birthday Incorporated. 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 35 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 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
101 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. 101 of the 106 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 Advocates for Children of New York ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Solid Rock Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BELONG BAKERY ↗
- Who funds WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
- Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
- Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BakerRipley ↗
- Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds Mending Kids International dba Mending Kids ↗
- Who funds MIRIAM'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds Together We Bake ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO ↗
- Who funds UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ABOVE GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds SLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WLALA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Counsel for Justice ↗
- Who funds ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds DIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds U S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE EAST BAY ↗
- Who funds Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC ↗
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: The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · Venable Foundation Inc · California Access to Justice Commission · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Skadden Foundation · United Way Miami Inc · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Quinn Emanuel 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 Law Rocks Inc 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.
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Young Musicians Unite Inc — 0% 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.
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