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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “litigation”
Where the money went
Largest: $125,000 to CENTRO MEXICANO DE DERECHO AMBIENTAL AC — core support for research, advocacy, and strategic litigation to promote a framework for a pluricultural mexico based on the full participation of indigenous, campesino, and afro-m…
The Impact FundBerkeley, CACharity · may take applications
50 matching grants · $1.4M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to Hughes Socol Piers Resnick — litigation costs
Largest: $375,000 to RODERICK AND SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER — to support litigation that improves prison conditions and develop litigation that challenges excessive sentences.
Largest: $150,000 to CORNELL UNIVERSITY — to support the global strategic litigation council for refugee rights to empower civil society globally and in particular across the global south to conduct coordinated strategic l…
Largest: $45,000 to FREE AND FAIR LITIGATION GROUP — to support litigation to protect our country's democratic system and individual rights from the threat posed by recent supreme court decisions, and current and former politicians.
Largest: $100,000 to INITIATIVE FOR STRATEGIC LITIGATION IN AFRICA — support for the strategic litigation for the sexual rights program in africa project to advance women's rights and rights of lgbtq communities.
Largest: $75,000 to Friends of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism — support to promote religious pluralism and the rule of law through advocacy, research, public education and litigation
Largest: $1.5M to PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — public policy litigation & law program
Largest: $150,000 to Open Secrets — support investigations and litigation against economic crimes.
Largest: $575,000 to Center For Death Penalty Litigation — 8th amendment project
Justice CatalystNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $6.1M · through 2024Largest: $5.0M to JUSTICE CATALYST ACCESS FUND INC — public interest litigation funding projects
Donors TrustAlexandria, VACharity · may take applications
8 matching grants · $3.1M · through 2024Largest: $2.8M to Do No Harm — for litigation efforts and general operations
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →