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Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

The Lawyers' Committee uses legal advocacy to achieve racial justice, fighting inside and outside the courts to ensure that Black people and other people of color have the voice, opportunity, and power to make the promises of our democracy real.

$122k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Civil Rights$381kCrime & Legal$261kFood & Nutrition$95kSocial Science$91kHuman Services$72kYouth Development$50kReligion$45kEducation$20kPublic Benefit$20kOther$268k
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 1 grants below total $16,987 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $121,987 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $105,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$16,987
Median grant
1
States reached
$76M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Urban Institute$16,987
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%OPEN BUFFALO: $12k → 13%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY: $20k → 17%REBUILDING BROKEN PLACES: $20k → 18%AYUDA: $20k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
NY
MA
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NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
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NM
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$332k · 3 repeat orgs$921k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
35

Total granted

$332k
$921k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesSocial ScienceReligionPublic BenefitOther

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

  • LF
    Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc
    3× · 2018–2021 · $266k · revenue +58%
  • THE URBAN INSTITUTE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +4%
  • AA
    Alabama Association For The Arts Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue -42%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA
    one grant, 2021 · $95k · revenue -47%
  • PJ
    PUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · revenue -2%
  • W
    WETHEACTION
    one grant, 2018 · $60k · revenue +62%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
4
National Police Accountability Project Inc

To promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution or laws of the United States.

Crime & Legal
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
6
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
7
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
8
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
9
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
10
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
11
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
12
Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mississippi Center for Justice and the most unlike its peers is Police for Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFood Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Government Accountability R…Fallen First Responder Supp…Affordable Housing Developm…Muslim Community Organizati…Asian American Advocacy & H…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%10%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/38
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,527

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
22/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc — $265,852 · Civil RightsLouisiana Fair Housing Action Cen…ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Civil RightsARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATIO…MATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Civil RightsMATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATIONASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Civil Rights+1 more — $10,000 · Civil RightsPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC — $75,000 · Crime & LegalPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER …GIRLS FOR GENDER EQUITY INC — $40,000 · Crime & LegalGIRLS FOR GENDER EQUIT…MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $25,000 · Crime & LegalMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR…LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGH…Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc — $25,000 · Crime & LegalChicago Lawyers Commit…BURIED ALIVE PROJECT — $20,000 · Crime & LegalBURIED ALIVE PROJECTTHE ACCESS PROJECT INC — $19,550 · Crime & LegalTHE ACCESS PROJECT INCSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $14,615 · Crime & LegalSOUTHERN COALITION FOR…GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $9,070 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $7,740 · Crime & LegalWETHEACTION — $60,000 · OtherWETHEACTIONRESOLUTIONS FIRM LLC — $50,000 · OtherRESOLUTIONS FIRM LLCThe Working Group — $37,500 · OtherThe Working GroupFLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC — $28,608 · OtherFLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INCMONTRELL CARMOUCHE LLC — $20,000 · OtherMONTRELL CARMOUCHE LLCKAYA HENDERSON CONSULTING — $20,000 · OtherKAYA HENDERSON CONSULTINGUBUNTU RESEARCH AND EVALUATION — $20,000 · OtherUBUNTU RESEARCH AND EVALUATIONRepairers of the Breach — $30,000 · OtherRepairers of the BreachCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA — $15,000 · OtherPolice For Inc — $20,000 · OtherPolice For IncAlabama Association For The Arts Inc — $16,000 · Other+4 more — $36,237 · Other+4 moreSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $95,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $50,349 · Social SciencePoverty and Race Research Action Council — $41,000 · Social ScienceCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 · Human ServicesRebuilding Broken Places CDC — $20,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesOpen Buffalo Inc — $12,000 · Human ServicesGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $50,000 · Youth Development
Civil Rights$380,852Crime & Legal$260,975Other$353,345Food & Nutrition$95,000Social Science$91,349Human Services$72,000Youth Development$50,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLouisiana Fair Housing Action Center Inc — $265,852 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA — $95,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC JUSTICE CENTER INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetWETHEACTION — $60,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $50,349 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPoverty and Race Research Action Council — $41,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetThe Working Group — $37,500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetRepairers of the Breach — $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFLORIDA LEGAL SERVICES INC — $28,608 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMATTHEW SHEPARD FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBURIED ALIVE PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPolice For Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRebuilding Broken Places CDC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE CENTURY FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAYUDA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ACCESS PROJECT INC — $19,550 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetAlabama Association For The Arts Inc — $16,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS OF ARIZONA — $15,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSOUTHERN COALITION FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — $14,615 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOpen Buffalo Inc — $12,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNational Coalition on Black Civic Partic — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW MEXICO BLACK LEADERSHIP COUNCIL — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVirginia Civic Engagement Table — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $9,070 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC — $7,740 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LATINO ELECTED AND APPOINTED OFFICIALS INC — $6,237 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

New Venture FundFoundation to Promote…The Ford FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationEqual Justice WorksWK Kellogg FoundationThe Kresge FoundationThe Impact FundThe Schott Foundation…Public Welfare Founda…Wellspring Philanthro…
New Venture FundDC29.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Equal Justice Works · WK Kellogg Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · The Impact Fund · The Schott Foundation for Public Education · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc

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 Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Florida Legal Services Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Public Justice Center Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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