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

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Tennessee, currently Legal Services Corporation, Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy, American Institutes for Research in The. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Tennessee from out of state.

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

$44M reached 104 crime and legal organizations in Tennessee, from 314 funders. 51% came from funders also based in Tennessee.

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 · Tennessee · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Tennessee

$44M reached 104 crime and legal organizations in Tennessee, from 314 funders, with no single one dominating.

$44M

granted

104

organizations

51%

from in-state

The short version

314 funders gave $44M to 104 crime and legal organizations in Tennessee across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
51% of that came from funders also based in Tennessee; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Tennessee is Legal Services Corporation, at $5M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Memphis Area Legal Services Inc, at $6M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Tennessee

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

1Legal Services Corporation$5M 2Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy$3M 3American Institutes for Research in The$2M 4Community Foundation$2M 5Tennessee Bar Foundation$2M 6United Way of Middle Tennessee Inc$2M 7The Healing Trust$1M 8Formanek Foundation$1M 9Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$1M 10Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$1M

Crime and legal organizations in Tennessee that draw the most

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

94 other crime and legal organizations$17M

Memphis Area Legal Services Inc$6M Tennessee Justice Center Inc$5M Men of Valor$4M Institute for American Police Reform Inc$3M Memphis Child Advocacy Center$2M

How to find crime and legal funders in Tennessee

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Start with the funders already active in Tennessee
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Tennessee are Legal Services Corporation, Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy, American Institutes for Research in The. 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
49% of crime and legal money in Tennessee comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Tennessee.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Tennessee?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Tennessee, currently Legal Services Corporation, Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacy, American Institutes for Research in The. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Tennessee from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Tennessee?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Tennessee, $5M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Tennessee?: $44M reached 104 crime and legal organizations in Tennessee, from 314 funders. 51% came from funders also based in Tennessee.
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.