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

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

Who is the largest crime and legal funder in New York?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to crime and legal organizations in New York, $76M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

How much grant money goes to crime and legal in New York?

$700M reached 277 crime and legal organizations in New York, from 1,931 funders. 37% came from funders also based in New York.

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 · New York · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in New York

New York's crime and legal organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 7 funders each.

$700M

granted

277

organizations

37%

from in-state

The short version

1,931 funders gave $700M to 277 crime and legal organizations in New York across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
37% of that came from funders also based in New York; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in New York is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $76M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Vera Institute of Justice Inc, at $96M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in New York

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$76M 2Legal Services Corporation$69M 3National Philanthropic Trust$42M 4Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund$26M 5Robin Hood Foundation$22M 6The Chicago Community Trust$20M 7Open Philanthropy Action Fund$18M 8Blue Meridian Partners Inc$17M 9Jewish Communal Fund$12M 10Laura and John Arnold Foundation$10M

Crime and legal organizations in New York that draw the most

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

267 other crime and legal organizations$319M

Vera Institute of Justice Inc$96M Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund$73M Legal Services NYC$51M Make the Road New York$33M The Legal Aid Society$27M Justice Innovation Inc$21M Immigrant Justice Corps Inc$20M

How to find crime and legal funders in New York

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Start with the funders already active in New York
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in New York are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Legal Services Corporation, National Philanthropic Trust. 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
63% of crime and legal money in New York comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in New York.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in New York?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in New York, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Legal Services Corporation, National Philanthropic Trust. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into New York from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in New York?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to crime and legal organizations in New York, $76M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in New York?: $700M reached 277 crime and legal organizations in New York, from 1,931 funders. 37% came from funders also based in New York.
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.