Organization
First Defense Legal Aid
See who has funded you, who else those funders support, and which potential new funders your network brings into view.
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Your funders
14 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 11 are locally focused, and 3 have national reach.
- Woods Fund of Chicago5 years$200,789
- Crossroads Fund5 years$159,000
- Illinois Equal Justice Foundation5 years$115,000
- The Irving Harris Foundationone-time$500
- Alphawood Foundation3 years$100,000
Showing 5 of 14. See all 18 funders
4 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.
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Your funding peers
Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 1,678 funding connections →
20 Legal Services funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- Cabrini-Green Legal Aid Clinic IncIL9 shared funders
- Chicago Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law IncIL7 shared funders
- Shriver Center on Poverty LawIL6 shared funders
- Ascend JusticeIL5 shared funders
- James B Moran Center for Youth AdvocacyIL5 shared funders
- Latino Policy ForumIL5 shared funders
- West Side Justice Center IncIL5 shared funders
- Legal Aid ChicagoIL4 shared funders
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Potential new funders
Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.
In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.
Showing the first 3 strongly connected funders.