Oregon · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE
NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,580 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($99,318). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $463k
- Net assets
- $169k
What National Crime Victim Law Institute does
Mission
To promote comprehensive and enforceable legal rights for crime victims, and access to knowledgeable attorneys to help protect those rights in every case through victim centered legal advocacy, education, and resources.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Victim legal assistance - since 2003, ncvli has been leading the national effort to enforce victims' rights through its crime victims' rights enforcement projects. These projects ensure that victims have access to trained, no or low cost (pro bono, and low bono) attorneys and advocates to secure for them meaningful rights in state, federal, military and tribal trial and appellate courts nationwide. This past year, accomplishments of note were many - some were ongoing efforts and others as new initiatives. The work of three ongoing projects are noted here. First, to ensure national capacity ncvli continued projects that provide training and technical assistance nationwide to groups creating and operating victim legal assistance efforts to ensure survivors have access to legal services at no cost with a focus on rights enforcement. Second, ncvli responded to requests for legal technical assistance (I.e., legal research, writing, and strategic litigation advice) and filed amicus curiae (friend of the court) briefs in cases across the country. Third, ncvli continued to develop and maintain its membership alliance, the national alliance of victims' rights attorneys & advocates (navra),…
$825,081 spent$8,842 earned by the program59% of program spendingEducation on victims rights - ncvli's dedication to educating on the current status and future horizon of victims' rights is demonstrated through trainings, publications and collaborations with other justice entities. Over the year, ncvli trained attorneys, advocates, justice & allied professionals on the meaning and enforceability of victims' rights. These trainings included intensive in-person trainings and lectures, technology-assisted trainings, and victims' rights educational materials. Central to ncvli's training effort were (1) the annual crime victim law conference, traditionally held in portland, oregon but offered in a hybrid fashion, which offered a wide range of training for novice and experienced attorneys and advocates on crime victim law practice and policy; (2) the state victim assistance academy, at which ncvli provides foundational and advanced learning opportunities for victim advocates. Education is also achieved through partnerships such as those creating: (3) trainings and resources for law enforcement on victims' rights; (4) trainings and resources for service providers working with military-connected victims; and (5) trainings and resources in the…
$555,050 spentof which $754 as grants$266,529 earned by the program40% of program spendingNcvli's work with students continued - specifically ncvli continued its internship/externship program which is open to undergraduate, graduate and law students, and taught the crime victim litigation clinic of the lewis & clark law school, which provided second- and third-year law students the opportunity to support ongoing national victim litigation and research through this program. Ncvli's director also teaches a substantive crime victim course at lewis & clark law school.
$10,000 spent$16,000 earned by the program1% of program spendingOther program services, not described on the e-filed return.
$0 spent0% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,390,131.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.9M to $501k (−74%).
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 59% · 2018 71% · 2019 85% · 2020 87% · 2021 86% · 2022 72% · 2023 70% · 2024 73% · 2025 74%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 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.
Chief executive
Margaret Garvin
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose $11k → $13k.
4 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE’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 CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 21% 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
86% 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 CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 52% · 2019 65% · 2020 48% · 2021 48% · 2022 44% · 2023 53% — diversifying over time.
“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
40% of NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $106k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $14.7M on record — $14.2M federal, $490k state.
- Department of Justice$14.2M
- OR$485k
- VT$5k
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 CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE
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 Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE: 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 NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE?
- NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE (Oregon) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $462,580 to it, the largest being MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($99,318). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $462,580 in grants to NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE?
- MIGHTYCAUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $99,318 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CRIME VICTIM LAW INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. 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 14 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