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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.

$703k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$398kEducation$346kCrime & Legal$342kYouth Development$282kHealth$278kHousing & Shelter$97kEmployment$88kFood & Nutrition$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $134k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $507k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$12,049
Median grant
11
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CALIFORNIA STRONG: $8k → 10%GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER & SUPPORT: $14k → 14%HOMEAID OF NORTH VIRGINIA: $630 → 6%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $21k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE OF WASHINGTON: $2k → 14%TOGETHER WE BAKE: $7k → 9%NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $18k → 17%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $12k → 14%BAKERRIPLEY: $15k → 16%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $11k → 14%MIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $6k → 14%KIDS MEALS INC: $10k → 16%GOOD SHEPHERD CENTER: $4k → 14%GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 14%GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $7k → 14%GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $6k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $14k → 14%UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $12k → 14%KETCHUM DOWNTOWN YMCA: $62k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
TN
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 29 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
52

Total granted

$1.2M
$616k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+31%

Still filing today

97%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $389k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCrime & LegalEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AF
    Advocates for Children of New York
    5× · 2017–2023 · $136k · revenue +77%
  • CA
    CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $113k · revenue +13%
  • CF
    CHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • OB
    OPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $101k · revenue +52% · 78% of their budget
  • EH
    EAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $89k · revenue +54%
  • WI
    WIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $57k · revenue -67% · 34% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

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.

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2
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

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3
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
4
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
5
Dc Affordable Law Firm

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…

Human Services
6
Legal Aid Association of California

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…

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7
The Bar Association of San Francisco

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…

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8
Asian Law Caucus

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…

Crime & Legal
9
The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
10
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation

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.

Crime & Legal
11
San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc

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…

Social Science
12
Public Counsel

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…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
101/101
Grantees still filing
73/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATED: $101,498 · OtherOPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATEDEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $88,510 · OtherEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INCCHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION: $75,487 · OtherCHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATIONLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK: $40,949 · OtherLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $32,935 · OtherVETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $50,472 · OtherVETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INCBELONG BAKERY: $59,677 · OtherBELONG BAKERYCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $50,283 · OtherCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc+41 more: $391,864 · Other+41 moreYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $61,907 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Ch…BakerRipley: $40,011 · Human ServicesBakerRipleyMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $28,876 · Human ServicesMIRIAM'S KITCH…Together We Bake: $28,357 · Human ServicesTogether We Ba…UNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25,842 · Human ServicesUNITED FRIENDS…GIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $20,561 · Human ServicesGIFTS FOR THE …THE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $18,088 · Human ServicesTHE NEW YORK C…GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $14,149 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,421 · Human ServicesKIDS' MEALS INC: $9,978 · Human Services+5 more: $23,150 · Human Services+5 moreAdvocates for Children of New York: $135,846 · Crime & LegalAdvocates for…THE ACCESS PROJECT INC: $60,803 · Crime & LegalTHE ACCESS PR…ACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC: $22,699 · Crime & LegalACCESS JUSTIC…AABA Law Foundation: $11,299 · Crime & Legal+8 more: $27,557 · Crime & Legal+8 moreBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $116,546 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS…Solid Rock Foundation Inc: $71,520 · Youth DevelopmentSolid Rock F…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $27,141 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIR…HEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $15,575 · Youth DevelopmentHEART OF LOS…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC: $13,596 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…George Mark Childrens Fund: $48,818 · HealthGeorge Mar…National Kidney Foundation Inc: $42,591 · HealthNational K…CITY OF HOPE: $39,751 · HealthCITY OF HO…ABOVE GROUND INC: $25,000 · HealthABOVE GROU…MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $15,520 · HealthMENTAL HEA…OLIVE CREST: $12,797 · HealthOLIVE CRES…+4 more: $8,511 · HealthWIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $56,647 · EducationWLALA FOUNDATION: $23,517 · EducationSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $17,058 · EducationACE ACADEMY: $12,049 · EducationStudent-Athletes Organized to Under: $11,874 · EducationBAY AREA URBAN DEBATE COMMISSION: $11,770 · EducationUniversity of Chicago: $10,110 · EducationLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $6,354 · EducationTroy and Baden Biddle Foundation: $6,122 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC: $6,120 · Education+2 more: $977 · EducationCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $112,642 · Civil RightsTransgender Law Center: $20,939 · Civil Rights+1 more: $407 · Civil Rights
Other$891,675Human Services$282,340Crime & Legal$258,204Youth Development$244,378Health$192,988Education$162,598Civil Rights$133,988

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAdvocates for Children of New York: $135,846 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MIAMI INC: $116,546 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $112,642 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetOPERATION BIRTHDAY INCORPORATED: $101,498 over 1y, 78% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $88,510 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHANCE FOR HOPE FOUNDATION: $75,487 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSolid Rock Foundation Inc: $71,520 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles: $61,907 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ACCESS PROJECT INC: $60,803 over 2y, 11% of budgetBELONG BAKERY: $59,677 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetWIRELESS INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $56,647 over 1y, 34% of budgetVETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $50,472 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc: $50,283 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $48,818 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $42,591 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK: $40,949 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBakerRipley: $40,011 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $39,751 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: $32,935 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMending Kids International dba Mending Kids: $29,598 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMIRIAM'S KITCHEN: $28,876 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTogether We Bake: $28,357 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CHICAGO: $27,141 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25,842 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetABOVE GROUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSLAVE 2 NOTHING FOUNDATION: $23,573 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWLALA FOUNDATION: $23,517 over 1y, 29% of budgetCounsel for Justice: $22,979 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetACCESS JUSTICE BROOKLYN INC: $22,699 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLA FAMILY HOUSING CORPORATION: $21,848 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTransgender Law Center: $20,939 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIFTS FOR THE HOMELESS: $20,561 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetDIGS WITH DIGNITY CORPORATION: $19,961 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetU S-UKRAINE FOUNDATION: $19,370 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE NEW YORK CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $18,088 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE EAST BAY: $17,280 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $17,058 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHEART OF LOS ANGELES YOUTH INC: $15,575 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH ADVOCACY SERVICES INC: $15,520 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $14,149 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC: $13,596 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVeterans Consortium Pro Bono Program: $13,592 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTAKE ME TO THE RIVER EDUCATION INITIATIVE: $13,300 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetBLUE BEAR SCHOOL of MUSIC: $13,045 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $12,797 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACE ACADEMY: $12,049 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStudent-Athletes Organized to Under: $11,874 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBAY AREA URBAN DEBATE COMMISSION: $11,770 over 1y, 1.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Morrison & Foerst…The Sidley Austin Fou…Equal Justice WorksLittler Mendelson Fou…Venable Foundation IncCalifornia Access to …The Gibson Dunn & Cru…The Skadden FoundationUnited Way Miami IncKatten Muchin Rosenma…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Quinn Emanuel Foundat…
The Morrison & Foerster FoundationCA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Law Rocks Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Law Rocks Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
39report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Law Rocks Inc 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.

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 106 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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