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

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

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

$367M reached 299 crime and legal organizations in Michigan, from 775 funders. 58% came from funders also based in Michigan.

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 · Michigan · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Michigan

$367M reached 299 crime and legal organizations in Michigan, from 775 funders, with no single one dominating.

$367M

granted

299

organizations

58%

from in-state

The short version

775 funders gave $367M to 299 crime and legal organizations in Michigan across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
58% of that came from funders also based in Michigan; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Michigan is Legal Services Corporation, at $98M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Michigan Advocacy Program, at $59M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Michigan

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

1Legal Services Corporation$98M 2Michigan State Bar Foundation$91M 3Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan$9M 4The Gilbert Family Foundation$8M 5WK Kellogg Foundation$7M 6The Kresge Foundation$7M 7Public Welfare Foundation Inc$6M 8United Way for Southeastern Michigan$5M 9Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5M 10The Ronda E Stryker and William D Johnston Foundation$5M

Crime and legal organizations in Michigan that draw the most

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

289 other crime and legal organizations$105M

Michigan Advocacy Program$59M Legal Services of Eastern Michigan$58M Lakeshore Legal Aid$42M Legal Aid of Western Michigan$34M Detroit Justice Center$19M Michigan Legal Services$13M

How to find crime and legal funders in Michigan

1
Start with the funders already active in Michigan
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Michigan are Legal Services Corporation, Michigan State Bar Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. 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
42% of crime and legal money in Michigan comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Michigan.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Michigan?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Michigan, currently Legal Services Corporation, Michigan State Bar Foundation, Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Michigan from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Michigan?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Michigan, $98M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Michigan?: $367M reached 299 crime and legal organizations in Michigan, from 775 funders. 58% came from funders also based in Michigan.
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 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

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.