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

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

Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Virginia?

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Virginia, $62M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.

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

$697M reached 349 crime and legal organizations in Virginia, from 2,243 funders. 23% came from funders also based in Virginia.

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 · Virginia · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Virginia

Most of it comes from outside Virginia: only 23% is from funders based in the state, so national funders set the agenda here. Virginia's crime and legal organizations are comparatively well-backed, averaging 6 funders each.

$697M

granted

349

organizations

23%

from in-state

The short version

2,243 funders gave $697M to 349 crime and legal organizations in Virginia across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
23% of that came from funders also based in Virginia; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Virginia is Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, at $62M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Institute for Justice, at $151M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Virginia

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

1Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$62M 2Legal Services Corporation$58M 3Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program$35M 4Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc$27M 5Rule of Law Trust$22M 6Donors Trust Inc$21M 7Galashiels Fund Ltd$19M 8Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc$14M 9National Philanthropic Trust$11M 10Federal Bar Building Corporation$11M

Crime and legal organizations in Virginia that draw the most

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

339 other crime and legal organizations$293M

Institute for Justice$151M Prison Fellowship Ministries$90M Legal Aid Justice Center$32M The Tahirih Justice Center$28M

How to find crime and legal funders in Virginia

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Start with the funders already active in Virginia
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Virginia are Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Legal Services Corporation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program. 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
77% of crime and legal money in Virginia comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Virginia.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Virginia?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Virginia, currently Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Legal Services Corporation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Virginia from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Virginia?: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Virginia, $62M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Virginia?: $697M reached 349 crime and legal organizations in Virginia, from 2,243 funders. 23% came from funders also based in Virginia.
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.