West Virginia · Nonprofit
PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105,500 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA FUND FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ($105,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 694 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 694 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
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.
- United Way of Harrison County Inclocal
- Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundationportfolio match
- Philadelphia Bar 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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 100% · 2018 99% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 99% · 2024 98% · 2025 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (93% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $6k → $25k.
From the IRS filings of PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT’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.
Where its funders are
100% of PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT's grant income comes from West Virginia 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.
- United Way of Harrison County InclocalWV · funds 19 organizations near you
- Colorado Lawyer Trust Account Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Philadelphia Bar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Justice Catalyst Partnershipsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Impact Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation II of the American College of Trial Lawyers Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for the Improvement of Justiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- American College of Bankruptcy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice Worksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Religious Campaign Against Tortureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Health Law Program Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Equal Justice America 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 PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
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 West Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
47% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT: 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 PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?
- PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT (West Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $105,500 to it, the largest being WEST VIRGINIA FUND FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST ($105,500). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $105,500 in grants to PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT?
- WEST VIRGINIA FUND FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST is the largest funder on record, with $105,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUBLIC DEFENDER CORPORATION FOR THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in West Virginia. 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 1funders 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