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The Campaign Legal Center Inc

The nonpartisan campaign legal center advances democracy through law at the federal, state and local levels, fighting for every american's rights to responsive government and a fair opportunity to participate in and affect the democratic process.

$987k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$660k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Public Benefit$1.2MCivil Rights$646kReligion$90kPhilanthropy$49kCommunity Improvement$48kHealth$29kCrime & Legal$13kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
  • $250k+1 grant · $660k
$25,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL VOTING IS LOCAL$660,080
THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC$70,000
CIVIL SURVIVAL PROJECT$36,000
FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA$35,000
AZ AANHPI FOR EQUITY$30,000
ELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC$25,000
RETURN STRONG$25,000
COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR UNIFIED POWER COUNCIL$21,790
RISE ACADEMY$20,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$16,500
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING$15,000
FUSION PARTNERSHIP$10,000
KENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE$10,000
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS ALABAMA EDUCATION FUND$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $28k → 18%BRIDGING THE GAP IN VIRGINIA: $10k → 9%AZ AANHPI FOR EQUITY: $30k → 11%SEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: $23k → 18%SEATTLE KING COUNTY COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS: $8k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
MA
NV
SD
IA
OH
CA
NE
KY
VA
MD
AZ
DC
MS
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 9 repeat orgs$372k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
12

Total granted

$1.6M
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+10%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesHealthCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $280k · revenue +98%
  • FI
    FAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA
    4× · 2021–2024 · $105k · revenue +83%
  • CC
    COUP Council
    2× · 2023–2024 · $44k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • RE
    RepresentUs Education Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -30%
  • ONE ARIZONAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $41k · revenue +64%
  • KC
    KENTUCKY COALITION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -48%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Civica Initiatives

Empower people and strengthen democratic institutions

Community Improvement
2
Minnesota Voice

Minnesota Voice is a collaboration of organizations working toward permanent change in social, racial, and economic justice by increasing civic engagement and voter participation across the state.

Public Benefit
3
Alabama Values

A nonpartisan grassroots communication organization that works to raise awareness and increase engagement around community issues in alabama by working directly with civic organizations advocating civic participation in communities across…

Arts & Culture
4
America Votes

The Organization was established to coordinate and promote progressive issues, policies, initiatives, and referenda, and to pursue electoral reform that expands access to the ballot.

Community Improvement
5
One Person One Vote

Ballot issue political action committee to advocate for the defeat of a constitutional amendment that would require a 60% threshold for any future constitutional amendments.

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6
Elevated Voices Inc

Voter education around policy

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7
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
8
Electoral Collective

Electoral Collective coordinates a broad-based coalition of existing entities active in the climate justice and community organizing space to raise public awareness and educational opportunities.

Civil Rights
9
Virginia Coalition for Progressive Values

To establish an effective, long-term and resilient political infrastructure that advocates for and delivers public policy victories which reflect the values held in common by our members.

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10
Move to Amend

Move to Amend is a coalition of hundreds of organizations and hundreds of thousands of individuals committed to social and economic justice, ending corporate rule, and building a vibrant democracy that is genuinely accountable to the…

Civil Rights
11
Bold Impact

Bold Impact is a national nonprofit dedicated to supporting a democracy where all communities get to thrive.

Arts & Culture
12
Civic Tn

Civictn and its partners are working individually and collectively to create a more accessible, inclusive, and representative democracy by lifting up the voices of the disenfranchised, restoring the power and accessibility of the vote, and…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bridging the Gap in Virginia. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 29 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
10/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALL VOTING IS LOCAL: $1,039,041 · Civil RightsALL VOTING IS LOCALCOUP Council: $43,790 · Civil RightsONE ARIZONA: $40,665 · Civil Rights+1 more: $25,000 · Civil RightsTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $280,200 · HealthTHE PRAXIS PROJE…EMBOLDEN WI INC: $16,665 · HealthEMBOLDEN WI INCFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA: $105,000 · ReligionRepresentUs Education Fund: $50,000 · Public BenefitKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $30,000 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE: $15,000 · Public BenefitOne Voice: $5,000 · Public BenefitSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $51,100 · Human ServicesInstituto Lab: $30,000 · Human ServicesBridging The Gap In Virginia: $10,000 · Human ServicesSeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness: $8,000 · Human ServicesQUAD CITIES INTERFAITH: $49,000 · OtherQUAD CITIES …ARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherARIZONA ADVO…LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ALABAMA EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 · OtherLEAGUE OF WO…TIDES FOUNDATION: $49,300 · OtherTIDES FOUNDA…Return Strong: $25,000 · OtherReturn Stron…EXPO of Wisconsin Inc: $23,000 · OtherEXPO of Wisc…RISE ACADEMY: $20,000 · OtherRISE ACADEMYTHE PROVIDENCE ON SOUTHMORE: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $11,000 · OtherCivil Survival Project: $36,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $27,500 · Community ImprovementFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Civil Rights$1,148,496Health$296,865Religion$105,000Public Benefit$100,000Human Services$99,100Other$227,300Community Improvement$83,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALL VOTING IS LOCAL: $1,039,041 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $280,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFAITH IN ACTION ALABAMA: $105,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSEVENTH GENERATION FUND FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLES INC: $51,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRepresentUs Education Fund: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $49,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUAD CITIES INTERFAITH: $49,000 over 2y, 9.4% of budgetCOUP Council: $43,790 over 2y, 14% of budgetONE ARIZONA: $40,665 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCivil Survival Project: $36,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKENTUCKY COALITION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInstituto Lab: $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetELECTION REFORMERS NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetReturn Strong: $25,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetEXPO of Wisconsin Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetARIZONA ADVOCACY FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRISE ACADEMY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMBOLDEN WI INC: $16,665 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetISSUE ONE: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFUSION PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKENTUCKY CIVIC ENGAGEMENT TABLE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSeattleKing County Coalition on Homelessness: $8,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBUCKEYE ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $6,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetOne Voice: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…New Venture FundTides FoundationBen & Jerry's Foundat…NEO Philanthropy IncMary Reynolds Babcock…State VoicesThe Educational Found…Mertz Gilmore Foundat…Proteus Fund IncFoundation to Promote…United States Energy …
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · State Voices · The Educational Foundation of America · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · United States Energy Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Campaign Legal Center Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Campaign Legal Center Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Fusion Partnership Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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