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Who funds crime and legal in Texas

Crime and legal funding in Texas is unusually spread out: no single organization draws even 12%, though The 85 Fund leads, and the money reaches 798 groups.

$1.7B
granted
798
organizations
52%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of crime and legal in Texas

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

1Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc$407M2Legal Services Corporation$293M3Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$168M4Texas Access to Justice Foundation$72M5Texas Casa Inc$71M6Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$58M7Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$42M8Communities Foundation of Texas Inc$26M9Houston Endowment Inc$20M10National Philanthropic Trust$13M

Crime and legal organizations in Texas that draw the most

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

788 other crime and legal organizations$967M
The 85 Fund$172MTexas Riogrande Legal Aid Inc$155MLone Star Legal Aid$116MLegal Aid of Northwest Texas$94M

How to find crime and legal funders in Texas

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Texas

    The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Texas are Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc, Legal Services Corporation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. A funder already writing crime and legal checks in your state is the warmest place to begin.

  2. 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. 3
    Add the out-of-state funders reaching in

    48% of crime and legal money in Texas comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Texas.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Texas?
Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Texas, currently Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc, Legal Services Corporation, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Texas from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Texas?
Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Inc gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Texas, $407M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Texas?
$1.7B reached 798 crime and legal organizations in Texas, from 2,887 funders. 52% came from funders also based in Texas.
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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines

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.