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West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest

A. Law students were placed as fellows with nonprofit public interest organizations in west virginia serving the poor, the unemployed, indigent criminal defendants and others without access to legal services. Students assist public interest attorneys in a variety of contexts from public benefits work to protection of women from domestic…

$161k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
8
Itemized grants FY2025
7
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$146k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$11,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$40,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 7
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving8$146k0%
FY20247$70k0%
FY20237$131k14%
FY20223$73k0%
FY20214$152k0%
FY20206$182k17%
FY20197$148k14%
FY20184$182k0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$1.2MCivil Rights$76kYouth Development$67k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc$550,20091%
Mountain State Justice Inc$188,50082%
Childlaw Services Inc$144,75087%
Public Defender Corporation for the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit$105,50045%
West Virginia Senior Legal Aidinc$68,000423%
State of West Virginia$67,4985n/a
Appalachian Citizens Law Center Inc$26,75041%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA2.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest

How much does West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest give?
West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest reported 8 itemized grants totaling $145,811, out of $161,311 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (89%), Civil Rights (6%), Youth Development (5%).
Who are West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Legal Aid of West Virginia Inc ($550k), Mountain State Justice Inc ($189k), Childlaw Services Inc ($145k).
Does West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest based?
West Virginia Fund for Law in the Public Interest is based in WV.

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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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