Ohio · Public charity
Ohio Access to Justice Foundation
The Foundation is a nonprofit Ohio foundation committed to improving access to justice and ensuring that Ohioans who are low-income or who lack access can fully and fairly participate in civil systems that produce just outcomes.
- $12M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $12M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $439,721
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,723,305
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 21
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $42M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Ohio Access to Justice Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $641k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 21 | $12M | 5% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $7.3M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $7.1M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $12M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $4.7M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $5.9M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $4.8M | 11% |
| FY2017 | 9 | $5.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc | $12,563,128 | 8 | 26% |
| Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio | $11,707,770 | 8 | 31% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cleveland | $6,999,551 | 8 | 12% |
| Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati | $5,377,010 | 8 | 13% |
| Community Legal Aid Services | $5,301,664 | 8 | 17% |
| Ohio Legal Help | $3,672,774 | 6 | 90% |
| Pro Seniors Inc | $2,483,203 | 8 | 15% |
| Catholic Charities Corporation | $1,728,875 | 4 | 1% |
| The Legal Aid Society of Columbus | $1,669,536 | 3 | 9% |
| US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants Inc | $1,178,778 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ohio Access to Justice Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Ohio State Bar Foundation · Columbus Foundation · The George Gund Foundation · Toledo Community Foundation Inc · The Cleveland Foundation · American College of Bankruptcy Foundation · Equal Justice Works · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · Ohio Voice · Legal Services Corporation · United Way of Greater Toledo · Akron Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Ohio Access to Justice Foundation
- How much does Ohio Access to Justice Foundation give?
- Ohio Access to Justice Foundation reported 21 itemized grants totaling $11,546,015, out of $11,855,446 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 21 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ohio Access to Justice Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (100%), Human Services (0%), Civil Rights (0%).
- Who are Ohio Access to Justice Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Advocates for Basic Legal Equality Inc ($13M), Legal Aid of Southeast and Central Ohio ($12M), Legal Aid Society of Cleveland ($7.0M).
- Does Ohio Access to Justice Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ohio Access to Justice Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ohio State Bar Foundation, Columbus Foundation, The George Gund Foundation.
- Where is Ohio Access to Justice Foundation based?
- Ohio Access to Justice Foundation is based in OH.
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