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

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Maryland, currently Maryland Legal Services Corporation, Legal Services Corporation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maryland from out of state.

Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Maryland?

Maryland Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Maryland, $51M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$98M reached 76 crime and legal organizations in Maryland, from 251 funders. 65% came from funders also based in Maryland.

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 · Maryland · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Maryland

Funding is concentrated: Legal Aid Bureau Inc alone draws 55% of every crime and legal grant dollar in Maryland. One funder dominates the giving, Maryland Legal Services Corporation, at 51% of the total.

$98M

granted

organizations

65%

from in-state

The short version

251 funders gave $98M to 76 crime and legal organizations in Maryland across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
65% of that came from funders also based in Maryland; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Maryland is Maryland Legal Services Corporation, at $51M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Legal Aid Bureau Inc, at $54M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Maryland

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

1Maryland Legal Services Corporation$51M 2Legal Services Corporation$19M 3Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$2M 4The Abell Foundation Inc$2M 5Leonard and Helen R Stulman Charitable$1M 6American Endowment Foundation$1M 7Eugene & Agnes E Meyer Foundation$910k 8Alliance for Open Society Int'L Inc$900k 9The Andrew W Mellon Foundation$900k 10Baltimore Community Foundation Inc$878k

Crime and legal organizations in Maryland that draw the most

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

Legal Aid Bureau Inc$54M

66 other crime and legal organizations$16M

Public Justice Center Inc$6M Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service Inc$5M Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland$5M

How to find crime and legal funders in Maryland

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Start with the funders already active in Maryland
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Maryland are Maryland Legal Services Corporation, Legal Services Corporation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. 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
35% of crime and legal money in Maryland comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Maryland.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Maryland?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Maryland, currently Maryland Legal Services Corporation, Legal Services Corporation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Maryland from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Maryland?: Maryland Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Maryland, $51M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Maryland?: $98M reached 76 crime and legal organizations in Maryland, from 251 funders. 65% came from funders also based in Maryland.
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.