Virginia · Public charity
Virginia Law Foundation
Virginia Law Foundation's mission is to promote through philanthropy the rule of law, access to justice and law related education.
- $714k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 37
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $694k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 37
- FY2017 to FY2023
- Total assets, FY2024
- $25M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Virginia Law Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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 | 34 | $694k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $752k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $609k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $579k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $466k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 26 | $518k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $364k | 47% |
| FY2017 | 23 | $465k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The John Marshall Foundation | $315,450 | 8 | 21% |
| Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition | $250,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc | $238,675 | 8 | 1% |
| Freekind | $237,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Library of Virginia Foundation | $190,000 | 4 | 6% |
| The Virginia Bar Association Foundation | $181,500 | 3 | 73% |
| Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program | $145,000 | 7 | 12% |
| Appalachian School of Law | $138,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | $132,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 1% |
Show all 62 grantees
Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Virginia Law Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: The Community Foundation Inc · Equal Justice Works · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Herndon Foundation · Sentara Health · Williams Mullen Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · Richmond Memorial Health Foundation · Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · Carmax Foundation · Richard S Reynolds Foundation
How this is measured
About Virginia Law Foundation
- How much does Virginia Law Foundation give?
- Virginia Law Foundation reported 37 itemized grants totaling $694,200, out of $714,200 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 37 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Virginia Law Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (73%), Arts & Culture (9%), Public Benefit (7%).
- Who are Virginia Law Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The John Marshall Foundation ($315k), Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition ($250k), Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc ($239k).
- Does Virginia Law Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Virginia Law Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Equal Justice Works, Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Virginia Law Foundation based?
- Virginia Law Foundation is based in VA.
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