Grants for crime and legal aid organizations

Name: Top 25 grants made to criminal and legal assistance organizations
Creator: Cause IQ
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

4,459 criminal and legal assistance organizations received at least $470.4 million in grants for the most recent fiscal year. This includes 7,347 grants made from 4,068 grantmaking organizations, with a median grant amount of $1,052. Of these 4,068 foundations, 74% made just a single grant to legal aid nonprofits, and 5% made grants to four or more legal aid nonprofits. This analysis is based on grantmakers that e-file their Form 990s, and likely is an undercount of grants.

$470,427,286

Total grant dollars given to crime and legal aid organizations

7,347

Number of grants made annually to crime and legal aid organizations

4,068

Number of grantmakers funding crime and legal aid organizations

$1,052

Median grant size to crime and legal aid organizations

Foundations that support criminal and legal assistance organizations

Out of all grants made to crime and legal aid organizations, 79% came from small foundations with less than $10 million in assets. The top 10 grantmakers accounted for 84% of the dollar-value of grants to legal aid nonprofits. Foundations funding legal aid nonprofits also made grants to multiservice human service organizations, legal aid societies, educational service providers, youth development programs, and scholarship organizations.

Foundation size

Foundation size	Number of grantmakers
Small	3,246
Medium	490
Large	331

Small foundations have <$10M in assets. Medium foundations have $10M to $50M in assets. Large foundations have >$50M in assets.

Foundation type

Foundation type	Number of grantmakers
Community	85
Private	3,424
Corporate	171
Other	388

Grants made

Grants made to legal aid nonprofits	Number of grantmakers
1	3,021
2-3	829
4-10	172
11+	46

Top 10 foundations supporting criminal and legal assistance organizations

Grantmaker	State	Geographic focus	Percent of grant dollars to legal aid nonprofits	Number of grants made to legal aid nonprofits	Median grant size
Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee (CFMT)	TN	Metro	0.3%	122	$1,000
JP Morgan Chase Foundation	NY	National	0.0%	119	$380
Abbvie Foundation	IL	National	0.2%	112	$150
Seattle Foundation	WA	State	0.2%	108	$1,105
Baird Foundation	WI	National	0.9%	67	$125
Chubb Charitable Foundation	PA	National	0.4%	67	$100
Shell Oil Company Foundation	TX	National	0.4%	61	$500
Carmax Foundation	VA	National	0.5%	48	$500
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)	NJ	National	0.0%	48	$387
Westrock Foundation	GA	National	0.1%	48	$39

See all grantmaking to crime and legal aid organizations

Criminal and legal assistance organizations grantees

Crime and legal aid organizations with more than $5 million in total revenues received 86% of all grant dollars. These larger organizations accounted for 38% of all legal aid nonprofits.

Grant amounts

Size of grant	Number of grants
<$10k	7,256
$10k-$25k	0
$25k-$100k	0
$100k+	91

Grant amount by grantee size

Grantee annual revenue	Median grant size
<$100k	$1,275
$100k-$500k	$1,500
$500k-$1M	$1,500
$1M-$5M	$1,500
>$5M	$1,000

Grantee states

State of grantee	Number of grants
California	968
New York	793
Alabama	652
Texas	607
Other	4,327

Grantee metros

Metro area of grantee	Number of grants
New York City	762
Montgomery	612
Washington DC	473
Los Angeles	363
Other	4,827

Top 25 grants made to crime and legal aid organizations

Grantee	Grant size	Purpose	Grantmaker
Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN)	$15,630,602	Legal Assistance & New Case MGMT System	Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board
Lone Star Legal Aid	$12,641,738	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)	$12,500,000	Final Grant To NFP Supporting Phase Ii of the Organization's Vision To Scale Plan.	The Edna Mcconnell Clark Foundation
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA)	$12,006,567	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Puerto Rico Legal Services (SLPR)	$11,041,950	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Legal Services for New York City (LSNYC)	$10,676,885	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Vera Institute of Justice	$10,500,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC)	$10,422,930	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Bethesda	$10,000,000	Cash	TriHealth
Bethesda	$10,000,000	Cash	TriHealth
Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP)	$9,600,000	To Support Expansion Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
South Jersey Legal Services (SJLS)	$8,438,398	Grants/assistance Were Awarded for the Following Legal Services Program:campaign for Justice $64,068iolta Basic Grant $611,508state of NJ Subgrant $5,221,432state of NJ - Filing Fees $2,535,416iolta Student Legal Intern Program $5,974	Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ)
The Bail Project	$8,000,000	To Support Scaling Plan	Blue Meridian Partners
Community Legal Services	$7,902,115	Provide Legal Services To Public.	Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network (PLAN)
Greater Boston Legal Services (GBLS)	$7,900,267	To Provide Financial Support for Legal Assistance Programs	Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC)
Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas (LANWT)	$7,736,381	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Connecticut Legal Services (CLS)	$7,643,907	To Provide Legal Services for the Poor in Connecticut.	Connecticut Bar Foundation
Georgia Legal Services Program (GLSP)	$7,423,421	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Community Legal Aid (CLA)	$6,791,114	To Provide Financial Support for Legal Assistance Programs	Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corporation (MLAC)
California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)	$6,623,869	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ)	$6,585,700	Grants/assistance Were Awarded for the Following Legal Services Program:campaign for Justice $51,827iolta Basic Grant $490,759state of NJ Subgrant $4,042,423state of NJ - Filing Fees $1,994,691iolta Student Legal Intern Program $6,000	Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ)
Indiana Legal Services (ILS)	$6,136,833	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Northwest Justice Project (NJP)	$5,999,556	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Legal Services Alabama	$5,465,181	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)
Legal Aid Chicago (LAF)	$5,291,874	Civil Legal Aid	Legal Services Corporation (LSC)

See all grants to crime and legal aid organizations

Methodology: To determine grants and grantees, Cause IQ analyzes electronically-filed Form 990, Form 990-EZ, and Form 990-PF financial disclosure documents, matching grantees to specific organizations using EINs and fuzzy matching logic. The "Crime and legal aid organizations" category for this page is determined by the "I00: Crime, Legal: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.