Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,802 to it, the largest being FAIR TRIALS AMERICAS ($227,389). 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.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared funders
- American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationportfolio match
- Arnold & Porter Foundationportfolio 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.
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $12k.
Left out of every figure on this page: $17M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice). These are real filings, and they are not money NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC’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
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
83% of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
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. Your 6 funders put you under-funded among the 281 organizations that share them.
- Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Incshared fundersDC · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Educationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arnold & Porter Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Association for Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Advancing Alcohol Responsibilityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Hospitality Investment Levyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Holtzman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American Arbitration Association Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- International Academy of Trial Lawyers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justice Catalyst Partnershipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Consumer Healthcare Products Associationportfolio 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.
Government funding NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $11.6M on record — $11.6M federal, $3k state.
- Department of Justice$11.6M
- (EE) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES$3k
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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS 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 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC?
- NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $295,802 to it, the largest being FAIR TRIALS AMERICAS ($227,389). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $295,802 in grants to NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC?
- FAIR TRIALS AMERICAS is the largest funder on record, with $227,389 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYERS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 6funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing