Virginia Law Foundation
Charlottesville, VA · EIN 51-0198088. Reported 140 grants totalling $2,634,059 to 49 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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 Virginia Law Foundation, 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. 49 distinct organizations, with 7% 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. 85% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,500 and $25,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $70,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Library of Virginia Foundation | Richmond, VA | $190,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| John Marshall Center for Constitutional History and Civics | Richmond, VA | $177,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc | Richmond, VA | $137,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Appalachian School of Law | Grundy, VA | $119,750 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Beach Justice Initiative | Hampton, VA | $115,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Blue Ridge Legal Services Inc | Harrisonburg, VA | $100,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Fairfax Law Foundation | Fairfax, VA | $95,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Greater Richmond Bar Foundation | Richmond, VA | $95,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| William & Mary Law School Foundation | Williamsburg, VA | $93,500 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Capital Area Immigrants Rights Coalition | Washington, DC | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Charlottesville-Albemarle Bar Association | Charlottesvle, VA | $77,500 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $76,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Montpelier Foundation | Mntpelier Sta, VA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Network for Victims and Witnesses of Crime Inc | Henrico, VA | $72,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Virginia Sexual and Domestic Violence Action Alliance | Richmond, VA | $65,000 | 3 | 2 | 2022 |
| Virginia Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program | Glen Allen, VA | $65,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Southwest Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | Marion, VA | $53,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Virginia State Bar Diversity Conference | Richmond, VA | $51,000 | 4 | 2 | 2024 |
| Central Virginia Legal Aid Society Inc | Richmond, VA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Drive-to-Work | Richmond, VA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| George Mason University Foundation Inc | Fairfax, VA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation | Richmond, VA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Society of Roanoke Valley Inc | Roanoke, VA | $47,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Just Neighbors Ministry Inc | Annandale, VA | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Legal Information Network for Cancer | Richmond, VA | $44,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Civics Education Incorporated | Culpeper, VA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regent University | Virginia Bch, VA | $39,750 | 5 | 4 | 2024 |
| Legal Services of Northern Virginia Inc | Fairfax, VA | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Jazz 4 Justice Inc | Fairfax, VA | $33,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Virginia Hispanic Chamber Foundation Inc | N Chesterfld, VA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Virginia Holocaust Museum | Richmond, VA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason | Arlington, VA | $29,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Liberty University Inc | Lynchburg, VA | $29,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Richmond | Richmond, VA | $29,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Washington & Lee University | Lexington, VA | $29,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Resolution Virginia | Staunton, VA | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Legal Aid Society of Eastern Virginia Inc | Norfolk, VA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Virginia Law School Foundation | Charlottesvle, VA | $21,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| William & Mary School of Law | Williamsburg, VA | $21,250 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Virginia Historical Society | Richmond, VA | $16,890 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Legal Aid Justice Center | Charlottesvle, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Beach Court Appointed Special Advocate Program Inc | Virginia Beach, VA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Civics Education Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Randolph-Macon College | Ashland, VA | $14,569 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc | Alexandria, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Housing Opportunities Made Equal of Virginia Inc | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lawyers for Children Inc | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Madison House | Charlottesvle, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Virginia Law Related Education Institute | Richmond, VA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
37 of 49 (76%) 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 the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Library of Virginia Foundation
This grant provides for the preservation and sharing of the Virginia Convention of 1776 Collection. - John Marshall Center for Constitutional History & Civics
The John Marshall Center (JMC) preserves and honors the founding legacy of John Marshall by engaging and educating learners of all ages about our constitutional history, the Rule of Law, and civics. - John Marshall Center for Constitutional History and Civics
Civics 250: A Common Cause for All educates Virginia's middle and high school civics teacher about the rule of law as well as providing SOL based lesson plans. - Virginia Poverty Law Center
This grant suports the Annual Statewide Legal Aid Conference which educates professionals on how to best support Virginia's low income clients. - The Library of Virginia Foundation
This grant will support the conservation, digitization, and public accessibility of the Executive Papers of the Revolutionary era Virginia Governor Thomas Nelson. - Virginia Poverty Law Center Inc
Each year, the VPLC holds the Statewide Legal Aid Conference to provide CLE-certified trainings on poverty law issues, including consumer, health, family, housing, and other areas of civil poverty law, and this grant will help underwrite costs associated with the multi-day event.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 39 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 29 | $578,900 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 33 | $608,569 | $20,000 |
| 2023 | 41 | $752,390 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 37 | $694,200 | $15,000 |
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
96% of its giving went to organizations in Virginia. 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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $15,000 -- 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 Virginia.
- 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 Virginia Law Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 37 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 105 Whitewood Road, Charlottesville, VA, 22901.
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