Illinois · Public charity
Shriver Center on Poverty Law
The SHRIVER CENTER ON POVERTY LAW (the shriver center) is an illinois not-for-profit corporation that fights for racial and economic justice by advancing laws and policies that change people's lives.
- $225k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 8
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $217k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $7,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $142,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 19
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $8.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations Shriver Center on Poverty Law funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 8 | $217k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $401k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $367k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $332k | 23% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $425k | 74% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $209k | 38% |
| FY2017 | 10 | $167k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Families USA Foundation Inc | $375,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Everthrive Illinois | $264,647 | 6 | 4% |
| Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights | $226,592 | 4 | 0% |
| Legal Council for Health Justice | $216,978 | 4 | 2% |
| Fund for Justice | $123,000 | 2 | 15% |
| Workers Center for Racial Justice | $92,614 | 3 | n/a |
| Texas Appleseed | $56,000 | 3 | 1% |
| New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty | $49,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Office of Kentucky Legal Services Programs Inc | $47,222 | 4 | 2% |
| Maine Equal Justice Partners | $45,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Shriver Center on Poverty Law supplied at peak.
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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: New Venture Fund · MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger · The Chicago Community Trust · National Health Law Program Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Metropolitan Chicago Inc · Michael Reese Health Trust · WK Kellogg Foundation · Equal Justice Works · Field Foundation of Illinois · The Ford Foundation · Center for Law and Social Policy
How this is measured
About Shriver Center on Poverty Law
- How much does Shriver Center on Poverty Law give?
- Shriver Center on Poverty Law reported 8 itemized grants totaling $216,500, out of $225,489 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Shriver Center on Poverty Law fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (39%), Crime & Legal (31%), Civil Rights (18%).
- Who are Shriver Center on Poverty Law's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Families USA Foundation Inc ($375k), Everthrive Illinois ($265k), Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights ($227k).
- Does Shriver Center on Poverty Law fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Shriver Center on Poverty Law?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Venture Fund, MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger, The Chicago Community Trust.
- Where is Shriver Center on Poverty Law based?
- Shriver Center on Poverty Law is based in IL.
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