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

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Illinois, currently Legal Services Corporation, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.

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

$266M reached 147 crime and legal organizations in Illinois, from 733 funders. 59% came from funders also based in Illinois.

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 · Illinois · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Illinois

Illinois's crime and legal organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 5 funders each.

$266M

granted

147

organizations

59%

from in-state

The short version

733 funders gave $266M to 147 crime and legal organizations in Illinois across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
59% of that came from funders also based in Illinois; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Illinois is Legal Services Corporation, at $52M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Legal Aid Chicago, at $43M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Illinois

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

1Legal Services Corporation$52M 2Illinois Equal Justice Foundation$25M 3Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois$19M 4American Bar Endowment$15M 5The Chicago Community Trust$14M 6The Chicago Bar Foundation$10M 7John D and Catherine T Macarthur$7M 8Illinois Coalition Against$6M 9Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M 10The Resurrection Project$5M

Crime and legal organizations in Illinois that draw the most

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

137 other crime and legal organizations$88M

Legal Aid Chicago$43M Prairie State Legal Services Inc$34M Land of Lincoln Legal Aid Inc$30M American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education$22M Shriver Center on Poverty Law$9M Safer Foundation$8M

How to find crime and legal funders in Illinois

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Start with the funders already active in Illinois
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Illinois are Legal Services Corporation, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. 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.
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Add the out-of-state funders reaching in
41% of crime and legal money in Illinois comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Illinois.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Illinois?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Illinois, currently Legal Services Corporation, Illinois Equal Justice Foundation, Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Illinois from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Illinois?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Illinois, $52M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Illinois?: $266M reached 147 crime and legal organizations in Illinois, from 733 funders. 59% came from funders also based in Illinois.
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.