New York · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Crime & Legal Aid in New York

Imperigo has identified 676 funders that made 5,439 grants totaling $975.8M to 322 crime & legal aid organizations in New York, with a median grant of $25K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Crime & Legal Aid Funding in New York

Total granted $975.8M
Funders 676
Grants 5,439
Organizations funded 322

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Legal Services Corporation
20 grants to 4 organizations · largest $16.2M · through 2023 · 4.5% of their giving
$110.7M
2. Open Philanthropy Action Fund
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $11.5M · through 2024 · 22.9% of their giving
$24.1M
3. United Way of New York City
36 grants to 14 organizations · largest $7.9M · through 2024 · 12.5% of their giving
$32.7M
4. Robin Hood Foundation
75 grants to 30 organizations · largest $2.3M · through 2024 · 5.7% of their giving
$37.1M
5. Fanatics Charitable Foundation
4 grants to 2 organizations · largest $3.0M · through 2024 · 33.0% of their giving
$9.0M
6. Hunger Solutions New York Inc
27 grants to 3 organizations · largest $387K · through 2024 · 11.7% of their giving
$6.3M
7. New York State Casa Assoc Inc
28 grants to 5 organizations · largest $108K · through 2025 · 23.5% of their giving
$1.6M
8. Jewish Communal Fund
155 grants to 46 organizations · largest $5.1M · through 2024
$34.0M
9. Period Law Strategy Fund
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $330K · through 2024 · 66.4% of their giving
$790K
10. Brooklyn Community Foundation
69 grants to 19 organizations · largest $165K · through 2023 · 5.0% of their giving
$2.8M
11. Bronx County Bar Endowment Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $200K · through 2024 · 98.6% of their giving
$390K
12. United Way of Greater Rochester and the Finger Lakes Inc
51 grants to 13 organizations · largest $360K · through 2024 · 2.5% of their giving
$2.8M
13. Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
34 grants to 16 organizations · largest $2.0M · through 2024
$8.9M
14. I Have a Dream - Overtown Inc
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $285K · through 2022 · 74.0% of their giving
$285K
15. The Chicago Community Trust
24 grants to 10 organizations · largest $8.0M · through 2023
$19.9M
16. Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
19 grants to 4 organizations · largest $1.2M · through 2024
$7.5M
17. Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture
7 grants to 1 organization · largest $325K · through 2024 · 3.8% of their giving
$1.0M
18. New York Police Chiefs' Foundation Inc
6 grants to 1 organization · largest $43K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$158K
19. Patrick Cantlay Foundation
3 grants to 1 organization · largest $70K · through 2025 · 28.3% of their giving
$147K
20. United Way of Southern Chautauqua County Inc
18 grants to 3 organizations · largest $31K · through 2024 · 6.5% of their giving
$440K
21. The New York Community Trust
63 grants to 38 organizations · largest $465K · through 2024
$5.2M
22. Silicon Valley Community Foundation
48 grants to 20 organizations · largest $2.7M · through 2024
$19.1M
23. Ascendium Education Solutions Inc
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $2.4M · through 2024
$3.8M
24. Harvard Law Review Association
2 grants to 2 organizations · largest $65K · through 2024 · 16.7% of their giving
$130K
25. Reisenbach Philanthropies Inc
12 grants to 5 organizations · largest $15K · through 2024 · 11.8% of their giving
$158K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to crime & legal aid work in New York, not by dollar totals alone — a foundation that concentrates its giving here is usually a better prospect than a larger one for which this is a rounding error. 15 of the funders counted here are donor-advised fund sponsors, which grant on behalf of individual donors and accept no applications; they are marked and ranked last.

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About This Data

A grant appears here when a funder reported it on its IRS Form 990 and the recipient organization is classified under the NTEE group covering crime & legal aid work, with an address in New York. Grants are counted from the 2025 filing year backward.

Some 990 grant schedules list a recipient by name and address without an EIN, and those grants cannot be matched to a classification — so the totals above represent identifiable crime & legal aid funding in New York, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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