Pennsylvania · Grantmakers

Foundations That Fund Crime & Legal Aid in Pennsylvania

Imperigo has identified 357 funders that made 2,532 grants totaling $512.0M to 189 crime & legal aid organizations in Pennsylvania, with a median grant of $21K. Every figure below is drawn from IRS Form 990 filings through 2025.

Crime & Legal Aid Funding in Pennsylvania

Total granted $512.0M
Funders 357
Grants 2,532
Organizations funded 189

Top Funders — page 1 of 4

1. Pennsylvania Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts Board
129 grants to 27 organizations · largest $29.2M · through 2024 · 91.7% of their giving
$139.6M
2. Legal Services Corporation
39 grants to 8 organizations · largest $4.9M · through 2023 · 3.5% of their giving
$84.7M
3. The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund
11 grants to 6 organizations · largest $1.4M · through 2023 · 23.6% of their giving
$5.3M
4. United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey
70 grants to 17 organizations · largest $921K · through 2024 · 8.2% of their giving
$7.7M
5. Philadelphia Bar Foundation
97 grants to 19 organizations · largest $189K · through 2025 · 71.0% of their giving
$2.2M
6. York County Bar Association
7 grants to 1 organization · largest $441K · through 2025 · 98.8% of their giving
$1.8M
7. Allegheny County Bar Association
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $250K · through 2024 · 89.3% of their giving
$778K
8. Philadelphia Bar Association
8 grants to 1 organization · largest $88K · through 2025 · 96.3% of their giving
$400K
9. Poise Foundation
12 grants to 8 organizations · largest $832K · through 2024 · 5.7% of their giving
$1.2M
10. Washington County Community Foundation
27 grants to 6 organizations · largest $238K · through 2025 · 5.4% of their giving
$1.2M
11. Lancaster Bar Association
5 grants to 2 organizations · largest $60K · through 2024 · 100.0% of their giving
$231K
12. The Philadelphia Foundation
99 grants to 36 organizations · largest $100K · through 2024 · 1.4% of their giving
$3.2M
13. The United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
37 grants to 6 organizations · largest $168K · through 2024 · 2.1% of their giving
$2.1M
14. Montgomery Bar Foundation
9 grants to 3 organizations · largest $44K · through 2024 · 50.7% of their giving
$210K
15. Franklin County Bar Association Inc
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $65K · through 2023 · 94.6% of their giving
$175K
16. Law Foundation of Berks County
10 grants to 2 organizations · largest $23K · through 2024 · 62.2% of their giving
$163K
17. Huddle Up for Kids Foundation
1 grant to 1 organization · largest $153K · through 2019 · 28.5% of their giving
$153K
18. United Way of Washington County
14 grants to 4 organizations · largest $22K · through 2024 · 13.7% of their giving
$211K
19. The Pittsburgh Foundation
51 grants to 26 organizations · largest $203K · through 2024
$2.7M
20. Montgomery Bar Association
5 grants to 1 organization · largest $40K · through 2024 · 61.7% of their giving
$130K
21. McAuley Ministries
14 grants to 4 organizations · largest $102K · through 2024 · 2.7% of their giving
$859K
22. Foundation for Health Equity
13 grants to 3 organizations · largest $26K · through 2024 · 9.4% of their giving
$243K
23. Thomas Skelton Harrison Foundation
7 grants to 3 organizations · largest $50K · through 2023 · 19.3% of their giving
$108K
24. The Foundation for Mount Nittany Medical Center Inc
4 grants to 1 organization · largest $231K · through 2022 · 3.7% of their giving
$554K
25. Wyoming County United Way Inc
8 grants to 2 organizations · largest $46K · through 2024 · 9.2% of their giving
$209K

Funders are ordered by how much of their overall giving goes to crime & legal aid work in Pennsylvania, 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. 11 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 Pennsylvania. 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 Pennsylvania, not every dollar that reached the sector. Figures are a floor, not a ceiling.

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