Equal Justice America Inc
Midlothian, VA · EIN 13-3708596. Reported 80 grants totalling $2,930,025 to 46 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Equal Justice America Inc, the IRS classifies it under crime & legal rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE I80Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 46 distinct organizations, with 30% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,177. Half of what it reported fell between $6,250 and $61,087; the smallest was $5,013 and the largest $367,451. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Others Under 5000 | $870,710 | 4 | 4 | 2023 | |
| East Bay Community Law Center | Berkeley, CA | $321,224 | 5 | 4 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Chicago | Chicago, IL | $317,086 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Greater Boston Legal Services Inc | Boston, MA | $295,114 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Neighborhood Legal Services Program of the District of Columbia | Washington, DC | $130,841 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesvle, VA | $126,091 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| William J Brennan JR Center for Justice Inc | New York, NY | $125,591 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid Inc | Mercedes, TX | $106,009 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pace University | Pleasantville, NY | $78,012 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ayuda Inc | Washington, DC | $75,830 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legal Aid Society | New York, NY | $58,356 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Legal Aid of North Carolina Inc | Raleigh, NC | $54,170 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York Legal Assistance Group Incorporated | New York, NY | $41,002 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Public Counsel | Los Angeles, CA | $38,553 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Community Legal Services Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $22,288 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Correctional Legal Services | Boston, MA | $22,188 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc | New Haven, CT | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $14,776 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kind Inc | Washington, DC | $13,642 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia | Washington, DC | $13,324 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legal Services Nyc | New York, NY | $12,135 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $11,526 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Lincoln Square Legal Services Inc | New York, NY | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| ACLU Foundation of Southern Calif | Los Angeles, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvard Legal Aid Bureau | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| National Center for Youth Law | Oakland, CA | $7,921 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | Richmond, VA | $7,388 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $7,265 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Quality Trust for Individuals With Disabilities Inc | Washington, DC | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Empire Justice Center | Rochester, NY | $6,553 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights | Los Angeles, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $6,392 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mobilization for Justice Inc | New York, NY | $6,300 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Ascend Justice | Chicago, IL | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legal Assistance of Western New York Inc | Rochester, NY | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc | Harrisonburg, VA | $6,220 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Equip for Equality Inc | Chicago, IL | $6,079 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc | Washington, DC | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Employment Education and Defense Fund | Portland, OR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Texas Appleseed | Austin, TX | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund | Los Angeles, CA | $5,750 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Metrowest Legal Services Inc | Framingham, MA | $5,289 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of New Hampshire | Concord, NH | $5,264 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| African Services Committee Inc | New York, NY | $5,105 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legal Aid Bureau Inc | Baltimore, MD | $5,018 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the District of Columbia | Washington, DC | $5,013 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
20 of 46 (43%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 33 of 46 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 12 | $587,880 | $10,439 |
| 2021 | 31 | $839,899 | $9,188 |
| 2022 | 23 | $672,890 | $11,053 |
| 2023 | 14 | $829,356 | $33,586 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
19% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $11,177 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Equal Justice America Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 13540 E Boundary Road, Midlothian, VA, 23112.
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