Ohio · Nonprofit
1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,750 to it, the largest being HAROLD & HELEN MCMASTER FOUNDATION INC ($71,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $72k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $110k
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What 1851 Center for Constitutional Law does
Mission
To defend human rights and constitutional rights.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
To defend human rights and constitutional rights.
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $985k to $1.6M (+63%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
58% of 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Maurice A Thompson
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $10k → $4k.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 67% · 2019 100% · 2020 40% · 2021 39% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $21k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW is better cushioned than half of the 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,607 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
0% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW?
- 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW (Ohio) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,750 to it, the largest being HAROLD & HELEN MCMASTER FOUNDATION INC ($71,250). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $109,750 in grants to 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW?
- HAROLD & HELEN MCMASTER FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $71,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like 1851 CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LAW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing