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The Dla Piper Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$420k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$1.7MFood & Nutrition$483kReligion$173kCivil Rights$123kInternational$120kPhilanthropy$77kCommunity Improvement$60kEnvironment$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $338k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$751k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL FOODBANKING NETWORK$50,000
LAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK$35,000
NATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM$30,000
FUNDACION APPLESEED DE MEXICO AC$30,000
LEGAL AID CHICAGO$25,000
ONEJUSTICE$25,000
VECINA$25,000
DC ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION$25,000
PRO BONO RESOURCE CENTER OF MARYLAND$20,000
PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY GROUP$20,000
GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES$20,000
LAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT$15,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC$15,000
INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM$15,000
COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES IN EAST PALO ALTO$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SAPNA NYC: $5k → 28%House of Ruth Maryland: $10k → 19%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $15k → 17%AYUDA: $10k → 14%DC AFFORDABLE LAW FIRM: $100k → 14%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
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 34 repeat orgs$856k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
54

Total granted

$2.1M
$814k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+31%

Still filing today

74%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalInternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TG
    The Global FoodBanking Network
    7× · 2017–2024 · $238k · revenue +47%
  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION
    3× · 2020–2023 · $200k · revenue +17%
  • NV
    NATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $150k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • DA
    DC Affordable Law Firmgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +423%
  • CL
    Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +88%
  • L
    LAF
    one grant, 2018 · $40k
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
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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2
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
3
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
4
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
5
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
6
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
7
The Public Interest Law Center

The Public Interest Law Center uses high-impact legal strategies to advance the civil, social, and economic rights of communities in the Philadelphia region facing discrimination, inequality, and poverty. We use litigation, community…

Crime & Legal
8
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal
9
Volunteer Legal Advocates

To advocate for domestic violence victims, at-risk children, and other vulnerable individuals by providing over $22.8m in pro bono legal services, social service referrals, and on-going support; to train and support a strong network of…

Housing & Shelter
10
Nijc Nfp

The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) is a leader in advancing immigrant rights through its unique strategy drawing on its legal services to promote legal reform through litigation, advocacy and strategic communications.

Crime & Legal
11
Legal Services Nyc

Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…

Crime & Legal
12
Lakeshore Legal Aid

Standing with our neighbors, Lakeshore Legal Aid fights poverty and injustice through advocacy and by providing meaningful and dignified access to the legal system.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lawyers Alliance for New York; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

70 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. 70 of the 95 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/70
Grantees still filing
50/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUNDACION APPLESEED DE MEXICO AC: $173,000 · OtherFUNDACION APPLESEED DE MEXICO ACNATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $150,000 · OtherNATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INCLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK: $135,000 · OtherLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORKGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $100,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INCOneJustice: $67,500 · OtherNATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER: $65,000 · OtherDC ACCESS TO JUSTICE COMMISSION FOUNDATION: $55,000 · OtherThe Houston Food Bank: $52,500 · OtherDC ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherLEGAL AID CHICAGO (LAC): $50,000 · Other+38 more: $585,820 · Other+38 moreLEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $200,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERVICES CORPORATIO…LEGAL AID CHICAGO: $100,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL AID CHICAGOChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc: $50,000 · Crime & LegalChicago Lawyers Committee…VECINA: $50,000 · Crime & LegalVECINANATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC: $30,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Services of Greater Miami Inc: $28,000 · Crime & LegalKIND INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+19 more: $179,422 · Crime & Legal+19 moreThe Global FoodBanking Network: $237,500 · InternationalThe Global FoodB…BABSEACLE INC: $64,000 · InternationalBABSEACLE INCPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY GROUP: $50,000 · InternationalPUBLIC INTERNATI…United States Association for UNHCR: $25,000 · InternationalUnited States As…HIAS INC: $20,000 · International+2 more: $23,000 · International+2 moreDC Affordable Law Firm: $100,000 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSAPNA NYC INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $52,500 · Food & NutritionGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $22,500 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC: $22,500 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $22,500 · Food & NutritionFeeding America: $12,500 · Food & NutritionCommunity Food Bank Inc: $12,500 · Food & NutritionPuerto Rico Conservation Trust Fund: $40,000 · EnvironmentWASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation: $7,074 · Philanthropy
Other$1,483,820Crime & Legal$662,422International$419,500Human Services$145,000Food & Nutrition$145,000Environment$40,000Philanthropy$37,074

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 budgetThe Global FoodBanking Network: $237,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES PROGRAM INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetLAWYERS ALLIANCE FOR NEW YORK: $135,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetDC Affordable Law Firm: $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLEGAL AID CHICAGO: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetOneJustice: $67,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetBABSEACLE INC: $64,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $52,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $52,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetVECINA: $50,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW & POLICY GROUP: $50,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLAWYERS FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWASHINGTON LAWYERS' COMMITTEE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS AND URBAN AFFAIRS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR LAW AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLegal Services of Greater Miami Inc: $28,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $22,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTEXAS RIOGRANDE LEGAL AID INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHIAS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GAULT CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID BUREAU INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Advocates For Human Rights: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFeeding America: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORLAW CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Bar Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAYUDA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCasa Cornelia Legal Services: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLegal Aid Association of California: $10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHICAGO BAR FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOUSE OF RUTH MARYLAND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

The Sidley Austin Fou…Equal Justice WorksThe Skadden FoundationThe Morrison & Foerst…Perkins Coie Foundati…Katten Muchin Rosenma…United Way Miami IncMc Dermott Will and E…Quinn Emanuel Foundat…The Wilson Sonsini Go…Greater Washington Co…Venable Foundation Inc
The Sidley Austin FoundationIL45.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sidley Austin Foundation · Equal Justice Works · The Skadden Foundation · The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Inc · United Way Miami Inc · Mc Dermott Will and Emery Charitable Foundation · Quinn Emanuel Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · Venable Foundation Inc

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 Dla Piper Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dla Piper Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • The House of Ruth Maryland Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Thread Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Legal Services of Greater Miami Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Legal Aid Bureau Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The Dla Piper Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Dla Piper Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 95 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-PF 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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