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

Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Wisconsin, currently Legal Services Corporation, Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Wisconsin from out of state.

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

$179M reached 214 crime and legal organizations in Wisconsin, from 554 funders. 54% came from funders also based in Wisconsin.

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 · Wisconsin · Crime and legal

Who funds crime and legal in Wisconsin

$179M reached 214 crime and legal organizations in Wisconsin, from 554 funders, with no single one dominating.

$179M

granted

214

organizations

54%

from in-state

The short version

554 funders gave $179M to 214 crime and legal organizations in Wisconsin across the FY2022 and FY2023 IRS filings.
54% of that came from funders also based in Wisconsin; the rest reached in from out of state.
The largest funder of crime and legal in Wisconsin is Legal Services Corporation, at $46M.
The crime and legal organization drawing the most is Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc, at $63M.

Largest funders of crime and legal in Wisconsin

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

1Legal Services Corporation$46M 2Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc$34M 3United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc$15M 4The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc$5M 5Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc$4M 6Community Advocates Inc$3M 7The Roots and Wings Foundation Inc$3M 8The Robert D and Patricia E Kern Family Foundation Inc$3M 9The Chicago Community Trust$3M 10Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$2M

Crime and legal organizations in Wisconsin that draw the most

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

Legal Action of Wisconsin Inc$63M

204 other crime and legal organizations$54M

Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty$16M Wisconsin Judicare Inc$16M Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee Inc$10M Wisconsin Community Services Inc$4M

How to find crime and legal funders in Wisconsin

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Start with the funders already active in Wisconsin
The funders giving the most to crime and legal in Wisconsin are Legal Services Corporation, Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc. 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
46% of crime and legal money in Wisconsin comes from funders elsewhere, so national crime and legal funders are worth approaching even if they are not based in Wisconsin.

Questions and answers

How do I find funders for a crime and legal nonprofit in Wisconsin?: Start with the funders already giving to crime and legal in Wisconsin, currently Legal Services Corporation, Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation Inc, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc. Then look at who funds the crime and legal organizations on this page that resemble yours, and add the national funders reaching into Wisconsin from out of state.
Who is the largest crime and legal funder in Wisconsin?: Legal Services Corporation gives the most to crime and legal organizations in Wisconsin, $46M across the 2022 and 2023 filings.
How much grant money goes to crime and legal in Wisconsin?: $179M reached 214 crime and legal organizations in Wisconsin, from 554 funders. 54% came from funders also based in Wisconsin.
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.