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

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Mississippi, currently Legal Services Corporation, WK Kellogg Foundation, The Ford Foundation. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Mississippi from out of state.

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

$22M reached 21 crime and legal organizations in Mississippi, from 113 funders. 15% came from funders also based in Mississippi.

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 · Mississippi · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Mississippi

Three organizations take 81% of all crime and legal funding in Mississippi, led by Mississippi Center for Justice. Most of it comes from outside Mississippi: only 15% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here.

$22M

granted

organizations

15%

from in-state

The short version

113 funders gave $22M to 21 crime and legal organizations in Mississippi across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
15% of that came from funders also based in Mississippi; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Mississippi is Legal Services Corporation, at $7M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Mississippi Center for Justice, at $8M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Mississippi

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

1Legal Services Corporation$7M 2WK Kellogg Foundation$3M 3The Ford Foundation$800k 4Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$700k 5Mississippi Bar Foundation Inc$658k 6Conrad N Hilton Foundation$608k 7Childrens Advocacy Centers Of$599k 8The David and Lucile Packard Foundation$450k 9Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$425k 10Silicon Valley Community Foundation$398k

Crime and legal organizations in Mississippi that draw the most

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

Mississippi Center for Justice$8M North MS Rural Legal Services Inc$8M Mississippi Workers Center for Human$1M Mount Olive Ministries Inc$564k

How to find crime and legal funders in Mississippi

1
Start with the funders already active in Mississippi
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Mississippi are Legal Services Corporation, WK Kellogg Foundation, The Ford Foundation. 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
85% of crime and legal money in Mississippi comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Mississippi.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Mississippi?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Mississippi, currently Legal Services Corporation, WK Kellogg Foundation, The Ford Foundation. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Mississippi from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Mississippi?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Mississippi, $7M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Mississippi?: $22M reached 21 crime and legal organizations in Mississippi, from 113 funders. 15% came from funders also based in Mississippi.
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.