Minnesota · Nonprofit
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,153,021 to it, the largest being VITAL PROJECTS FUND INC ($1,046,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $62M
- Funders on record
- 50
- Grants received
- $4.2M
- Net assets
- $78M
What Mitchell Hamline School of Law does
Mission
Mitchell Hamline School of Law is an independent law school that advances its mission through a combination of legal education, public service, and community engagement. It is dedicated to preparing students to practice law, while also expanding access to legal knowledge and services within our region and beyond. Mitchell hamline is committed to making legal education accessible. The law school provides full-time, part-time, and hybrid programs to increase accessibility for working professionals and non-traditional students. In addition to the academic curriculum, which includes and robust experiential offerings, mitchell hamline's work in hosting continuing legal education (cle) events and public forums helps foster dialogue on critical legal issues and strengthens professional development for alumni and legal practitioners.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Legal education program (j.d. And ll.m.): the school is organized as an institution of higher learning in which persons are taught the principles of law and allied branches of knowledge and prepared for admission to practice the profession of law in the courts of minnesota, other states and the united states. The school also conducts graduate degree and non-degree educational programs for lawyers, other professionals, and members of the public. Through its clinics, it provides law students, supervised by lawyers, the opportunity to engage in meaningful, practical legal experiences to deliver legal services to members of the community.
$51,193,514 spentof which $25,185,039 as grants$57,266,589 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $51,193,514.
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 2020 to 2021, from $68M to $82M (+20%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 1% · 2023 1% · 2024 1% · 2025 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 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.
Board chair
Greg Buck
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 15 funders, grant income rose $274k → $625k.
16 of 50 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 50 funders by total. 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
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
62% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 52% · 2019 40% · 2020 24% · 2021 37% · 2022 28% · 2023 39% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
How long its funders stay
33% of MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW draws 61% of its grant income from funders outside Minnesota, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.9M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,758 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.5M on record — $2.5M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Education$1.5M
- National Science Foundation$967k
- OR$2k
- FL$270
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF 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 Minnesota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 17 states
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- Mhsl Student Bar Association · exempt
- Public Health Law Center Inc · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust (1) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF 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 MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW?
- MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW (Minnesota) receives grants from 50 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,153,021 to it, the largest being VITAL PROJECTS FUND INC ($1,046,000). 31 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW have?
- IRS filings report 50 organizations giving $4,153,021 in grants to MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW, 31 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW?
- VITAL PROJECTS FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,046,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MITCHELL HAMLINE SCHOOL OF LAW find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Minnesota. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 50 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