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

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Louisiana, currently Louisiana Bar Foundation, Legal Services Corporation, Public Welfare Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.

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

$304M reached 216 crime and legal organizations in Louisiana, from 624 funders. 44% came from funders also based in Louisiana.

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 · Louisiana · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Louisiana

$304M reached 216 crime and legal organizations in Louisiana, from 624 funders, with no single one dominating.

$304M

granted

216

organizations

44%

from in-state

The short version

624 funders gave $304M to 216 crime and legal organizations in Louisiana across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
44% of that came from funders also based in Louisiana; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Louisiana is Louisiana Bar Foundation, at $69M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp, at $57M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Louisiana

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

1Louisiana Bar Foundation$69M 2Legal Services Corporation$58M 3Public Welfare Foundation Inc$10M 4Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$8M 5The Greater New Orleans Foundation$7M 6Louisiana Alliance of Childrens Advocacy Centers$5M 7United Way of Southeast Louisiana$4M 8Silicon Valley Community Foundation$4M 9WK Kellogg Foundation$4M 10Jewish Communal Fund$4M

Crime and legal organizations in Louisiana that draw the most

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

206 other crime and legal organizations$100M

Southeast Louisiana Legal Services Corp$57M Acadiana Legal Service Corporation$57M The Promise of Justice Initiative$13M The First 72$8M Families and Friends of Louisianas Incarcerated Children$7M

How to find crime and legal funders in Louisiana

1
Start with the funders already active in Louisiana
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Louisiana are Louisiana Bar Foundation, Legal Services Corporation, Public Welfare Foundation Inc. 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
56% of crime and legal money in Louisiana comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Louisiana.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Louisiana?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Louisiana, currently Louisiana Bar Foundation, Legal Services Corporation, Public Welfare Foundation Inc. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Louisiana from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Louisiana?: Louisiana Bar Foundation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Louisiana, $69M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Louisiana?: $304M reached 216 crime and legal organizations in Louisiana, from 624 funders. 44% came from funders also based in Louisiana.
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 unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines

Each grant is placed by its stated purpose and the recipient's mission, falling back to the recipient's IRS activity category where that is unclear; 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.