How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in California?

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in California, currently Legal Services Corporation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund, The Chicago Community Trust. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.

How much grant money goes to crime and legal in California?

$780M reached 518 crime and legal organizations in California, from 1,943 funders. 38% came from funders also based in California.

How recent is this data?

It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

Funding · California · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in California

Crime and legal funding in California is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though Alliance for Safety and Justice leads, and the money reaches 518 groups.

$780M

granted

518

organizations

38%

from in-state

The short version

1,943 funders gave $780M to 518 crime and legal organizations in California across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
38% of that came from funders also based in California; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in California is Legal Services Corporation, at $122M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Alliance for Safety and Justice, at $78M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in California

The funders giving the most to crime and legal organizations in California, in-state and out. Pick one for its dossier.

1Legal Services Corporation$122M 2Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$68M 3The Chicago Community Trust$48M 4Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$47M 5Blue Meridian Partners Inc$31M 6Silicon Valley Community Foundation$24M 7The California Endowment$17M 8Tides Center$15M 9National Philanthropic Trust$14M 10Tides Foundation$14M

Crime and legal organizations in California that draw the most

Sized by grant dollars received. Pick one to see exactly who funds it.

508 other crime and legal organizations$431M

Alliance for Safety and Justice$78M Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles$38M The Bail Project Inc$25M Legal Services of Northern California$22M

How to find crime and legal funders in California

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Start with the funders already active in California
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in California are Legal Services Corporation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund, The Chicago Community Trust. A funder already writing crime and legal checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.
2
See who funds organizations like yours
Open the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours in size or work, and look at who funds them. Shared funders are the strongest signal of fit.
3
Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
62% of crime and legal money in California comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in California.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in California?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in California, currently Legal Services Corporation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund, The Chicago Community Trust. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into California from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in California?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in California, $122M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in California?: $780M reached 518 crime and legal organizations in California, from 1,943 funders. 38% came from funders also based in California.
How recent is this data?: It is read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file filings for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, the two years with complete coverage. US charity filings lag 12 to 24 months.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Giving abroad

which US foundations fund each country

Cause is the recipient's NTEE classification in the IRS Business Master File; location is the recipient's state on its most recent filing. Grant figures are read from IRS Form 990 and 990-PF e-file XML for fiscal years 2022 and 2023, among recipients resolved by EIN. Source: IRS Form 990 downloads.