How much does Legal Foundation of Washington give?

Legal Foundation of Washington reported 36 grants totaling $7,176,682 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Legal Foundation of Washington fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (85%), Employment (13%), Civil Rights (2%).

Who are Legal Foundation of Washington's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fair Work Center ($59M), Columbia Legal Services ($33M), Northwest Immigrant Rights Project ($12M).

Does Legal Foundation of Washington fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Foundation of Washington?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inatai Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest.

Where is Legal Foundation of Washington based?

Legal Foundation of Washington is based in WA.

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Washington · Public charity

Legal Foundation of Washington

Equal justice for low income people.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 36
Grants FY2024: 47
Organizations funded FY2023: 13%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $60,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $675,000
Organizations funded a year: 34 to 47; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 2
Total assets, FY2024: $100M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Legal Foundation of Washington funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $319k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureHealthEducationCivil RightsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	36	$7.2M	39%
FY2023	47	$29M	13%
FY2022	42	$3.2M	17%
FY2021	43	$43M	26%
FY2020	41	$53M	20%
FY2019	37	$10M	19%
FY2018	34	$8.9M	12%
FY2017	36	$8.3M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$138MEmployment$21MCivil Rights$2.8MInternational$710kEducation$375kHuman Services$65kArts & Culture$55kYouth Development$10k

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
Fair Work Center	$59,439,500	5	89%
Columbia Legal Services	$32,884,293	6	82%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$12,234,283	7	16%
King County Bar Foundation	$5,206,577	7	52%
TeamChild	$5,068,810	7	60%
Unemployment Law Project	$3,661,531	6	60%
Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association	$3,547,391	8	34%
Benefits Law Center	$3,433,300	6	65%
Northwest Justice Project	$2,600,000	8	1%
Yakima County Volunteer Attorney Services	$1,836,527	8	77%

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All grantees of Legal Foundation of Washington by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Fair Work Center	$59,439,500	5	89%
Columbia Legal Services	$32,884,293	6	82%
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project	$12,234,283	7	16%
King County Bar Foundation	$5,206,577	7	52%
TeamChild	$5,068,810	7	60%
Unemployment Law Project	$3,661,531	6	60%
Tacoma-Pierce County Bar Association	$3,547,391	8	34%
Benefits Law Center	$3,433,300	6	65%
Northwest Justice Project	$2,600,000	8	1%
Yakima County Volunteer Attorney Services	$1,836,527	8	77%
Solid Ground Washington	$1,814,167	7	2%
Law Advocates	$1,798,864	8	77%
Snohomish County Legal Services	$1,773,889	7	55%
Eastside Legal Assistance Program	$1,625,765	8	29%
Sound Legal Aid	$1,460,487	7	80%
Inland Empire Legal Aid	$1,389,013	7	84%
Skagit Legal Aid	$1,351,999	4	97%
Clark County Volunteer Lawyers Program	$1,339,660	8	55%
CHELAN-DOUGLAS VOLUNTEER Attorney Services	$1,312,206	8	99%
Legal Counsel for Youth and Children	$1,116,000	7	13%
Scholar Fund	$1,104,239	2	5%
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo	$1,096,329	7	15%
Kitsap Legal Services	$1,029,574	7	95%
Endowment for Equal Justice	$1,000,000	2	24%
Benton Franklin Legal Aid Society	$820,376	7	88%
Clallam-Jefferson County Pro Bono Lawyers	$789,775	7	75%
Tulalip Foundation	$750,000	3	47%
Communities Rise	$740,000	5	22%
Cowlitz-Wahkiakum County Legal Aid Program Inc	$708,944	8	74%
Wa St Native American Coalition Against Dv & Sa	$675,000	1	66%
Sage Indigenous Law Center	$675,000	1	n/a
Lavender Rights Project	$622,500	7	35%
Seattle Clemency Project	$601,000	6	37%
Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe	$600,000	1	n/a
Blue Mountain Action Council	$593,144	7	2%
Latino Community Fund of Washington State	$495,000	8	4%
Community Action of Skagit County	$492,190	4	1%
The Way to Justice	$430,000	3	9%
GLBT Bar Association of Washington Foundation	$385,000	2	52%
Skokomish Indian Tribe	$375,000	1	n/a
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation	$340,000	1	n/a
Catholic Community Services of Western Washington	$243,152	3	0%
Center	$213,254	4	17%
Ufw Foundation	$210,000	2	0%
Global Rights Advocacy	$200,000	3	32%
Civil Survival Project	$182,500	3	57%
Disability Rights Washington	$162,500	5	2%
Manzanita House	$110,000	2	6%
American Civil Liberties Union of Washington Found	$98,518	1	1%
Tenants Union of Washington	$97,500	3	5%
Center for Justice	$93,000	2	14%
Nuestra CASA	$90,000	2	13%
Our Sisters House	$90,000	2	5%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	$90,000	2	n/a
Kind Inc	$87,500	2	0%
Northwest Consumer Law Center	$80,000	2	36%
Carl Maxey Center	$80,000	2	2%
Sexual Violence Law Center	$79,163	2	51%
Church of the Brethren	$60,000	2	n/a
Northwest Health Law Advocates	$60,000	1	8%
JustLead Washington	$55,000	2	10%
Mi Centro	$50,000	1	3%
The Mockingbird Society	$50,000	1	2%
Latinos En Spokane	$50,000	1	4%
Council On American-Islamic Relations	$50,000	1	4%
Rvc Seattle	$50,000	1	0%
Central Washington Justice For Our Neighbors	$50,000	1	6%
Freedom Project	$50,000	2	1%
Asian Counseling and Referral Service	$50,000	1	0%
Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho	$50,000	1	0%
Pacific County Immigrant Support	$50,000	2	5%
Institute for Black Justice	$50,000	1	9%
El Centro de la Raza	$50,000	2	0%
Mi Chiantla	$50,000	1	n/a
Washington State Bar Foundation	$40,000	1	10%
Unidos Nueva Alianza Foundation	$40,000	1	6%
Mia Mujeres in Action	$40,000	1	7%
Choose 180	$40,000	1	1%
Washington Low Income Housing Alliance	$40,000	1	4%
Ecologistics Inc	$40,000	1	3%
Entre Hermanos	$37,500	2	1%
Lewis County Bar Legal Aid	$24,214	3	30%
La Casa Hogar	$20,000	1	1%
Colectiva del Pueblo	$18,757	1	n/a
West African Community Council	$17,500	2	1%
Dispute Resolution Center	$17,400	2	2%
Corporation of Gonzaga University	$10,000	1	0%
Korean Women's Association	$10,000	1	0%
Washington State Attorney General	$10,000	1	n/a
What's Next Washington	$7,500	1	n/a
Blue Earth Alliance	$7,500	1	3%
Society of St Vincent de Paul Council O	$7,486	1	0%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($26k), not named here.

Legal Foundation of Washington supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 30 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 82 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 82.

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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.

Inatai FoundationWA87.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Inatai Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Philanthropy Northwest · Raikes Foundation · The Satterberg Foundation Inc · United Way of King County · Empire Health Community Advocacy Fund · Latino Community Fund of Washington State · School's Out Washington · Colectiva Legal del Pueblo · Northwest Harvest Emm · Byrd Barr Place

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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About Legal Foundation of Washington

How much does Legal Foundation of Washington give?: Legal Foundation of Washington reported 36 grants totaling $7,176,682 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Legal Foundation of Washington fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (85%), Employment (13%), Civil Rights (2%).
Who are Legal Foundation of Washington's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Fair Work Center ($59M), Columbia Legal Services ($33M), Northwest Immigrant Rights Project ($12M).
Does Legal Foundation of Washington fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Foundation of Washington?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Inatai Foundation, Seattle Foundation, Philanthropy Northwest.
Where is Legal Foundation of Washington based?: Legal Foundation of Washington is based in WA.