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Legal Voice

Legal Voice was founded on the belief that all women, girls, and lgbtq+ people should be able to live their lives with dignity, safety, and autonomy. We advance justice and build community power by using multiple strategies: litigation, legislative advocacy, and public education. At the heart of our advocacy is community-centered…

$427k
Granted FY2020
4
Grants FY2020
3
Organizations funded FY2020
0%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$122,500
Largest grant, FY2020
$182,500
Organizations funded a year
3 to 4
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
4
Total assets, FY2020
$3.1M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 0% of the organizations Legal Voice funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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
FY20203$421k0%
FY20194$305k0%
FY20184$312k0%
FY20174$323kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Crime & Legal$909kCivil Rights$451k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Women's Law Project$450,750414%
Gender Justice$406,750420%
Southwest Women's Law Center$362,250415%
California Women's Law Center$139,75039%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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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 Voice

How much does Legal Voice give?
Legal Voice reported 4 grants totaling $427,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Legal Voice fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (67%), Civil Rights (33%).
Who are Legal Voice's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Women's Law Project ($451k), Gender Justice ($407k), Southwest Women's Law Center ($362k).
Does Legal Voice fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Legal Voice?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Legal Voice based?
Legal Voice is based in WA.

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 4 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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