New Jersey · Nonprofit
LAW FOUNDATION INC
LAW FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being HARLEY RYAN WILF CHARITABLE TRUST ($36,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Summit Foundationlocal
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio match
- Foundation for the Improvement of Justiceportfolio match
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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $45k → $12k.
From the IRS filings of LAW FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation.
How concentrated its funding is
LAW FOUNDATION INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 27% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
Where its funders are
100% of LAW FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from New Jersey funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- The Summit FoundationlocalNJ · funds 50 organizations near you
- Prime Coalition Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for the Improvement of Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Civil Justice Reform Groupportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ralph & Elizabeth Anderson Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gabriel & Claudia Navarro Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fund for Global Human Rights Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- California Changelawyersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like LAW FOUNDATION INC
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Jersey
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for LAW FOUNDATION INC: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds LAW FOUNDATION INC?
- LAW FOUNDATION INC (New Jersey) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $69,000 to it, the largest being HARLEY RYAN WILF CHARITABLE TRUST ($36,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LAW FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $69,000 in grants to LAW FOUNDATION INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LAW FOUNDATION INC?
- HARLEY RYAN WILF CHARITABLE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $36,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LAW FOUNDATION INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Jersey. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 5funders 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. What this page cannot tell you · view filing