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Who funds crime and legal in Washington

$454M reached 342 crime and legal organizations in Washington, from 868 funders, with no single one dominating.

$454M
granted
342
organizations
65%
from in-state

The short version

Largest funders of crime and legal in Washington

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

1Legal Foundation of Washington$136M2Legal Services Corporation$57M3Northwest Justice Project$27M4Inatai Foundation$17M5Seattle Foundation$14M6Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$13M7United Way of King County$13M8King County Bar Foundation$9M9Blue Meridian Partners Inc$9M10Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc$9M

Crime and legal organizations in Washington that draw the most

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

332 other crime and legal organizations$194M
Northwest Justice Project$68MFair Work Center$39MLegal Foundation of Washington$38MColumbia Legal Services$37MNorthwest Immigrant Rights Project$13MLegal Voice$11M

How to find crime and legal funders in Washington

  1. 1
    Start with the funders already active in Washington

    The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Washington are Legal Foundation of Washington, Legal Services Corporation, Northwest Justice Project. 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

    35% of crime and legal money in Washington comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Washington.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Washington?
Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Washington, currently Legal Foundation of Washington, Legal Services Corporation, Northwest Justice Project. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Washington from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Washington?
Legal Foundation of Washington gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Washington, $136M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Washington?
$454M reached 342 crime and legal organizations in Washington, from 868 funders. 65% came from funders also based in Washington.
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 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

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.