| DAF GIVING 360 | OMAHA, NE | $672,509 | 2025 | Our mission is to increase charitable giving in the U.S. We do this by providing a tax-smart and simple giving solution of a donor-advised fund (DAF) account and related philanthropic tools and guidance that empower donors to incorporate planning into their everyday lives. |
| UPPER SEVEN LAW | HELENA, MT | $25,000 | 2025 | Upper Seven Law is a 501(c)(3) Montana-based nonprofit law firm dedicated to holding the powerful accountable. Based on the belief that creativity and innovation in law are essential to advancing social justice and public interest objectives, this firm takes smart risks and invests the time necessary to build foundations for long-term accountability work. |
| OUR CHILDREN'S TRUST | EUGENE, OR | $25,000 | 2025 | Our Childrens Trust is a non-profit public interest law firm that provides strategic, campaign-based legal services to youth from diverse backgrounds to secure their legal rights to a safe climate. We work to protect the Earths climate system for present and future generations by representing young people in global legal efforts to secure their binding and enforceable legal rights to a healthy atmosphere and stable climate, based on the best available science.We support our youth clients and amplify their voices before the third branch of government in a highly strategic legal campaign that includes targeted media, education, and public engagement work to support the youths legal actions. Our legal work guided by constitutional, public trust, human rights laws and the laws of nature aims to ensure systemic and science-based climate recovery planning and remedies at federal, state, and global levels. |
| A BETTER CHILDHOOD | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2025 | Abc fights for children who are abused, neglected, and irreversibly damaged while dependent on child welfare systems. |
| CENTER FOR PUBLIC REPRESENTATION | HELENA, MT | $25,000 | 2025 | Upper Seven Law is a 501(c)(3) Montana-based nonprofit law firm dedicated to holding the powerful accountable. Based on the belief that creativity and innovation in law are essential to advancing social justice and public interest objectives, this firm takes smart risks and invests the time necessary to build foundations for long-term accountability work. |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LITIGATION ALL | BROOKLINE, MA | $25,000 | 2025 | NILA is dedicated to championing the rights of noncitizens, or those perceived to be noncitizens, and to elevating the capacity and quality of the lawyers who represent them. Our team has more than 50 years of collective experience in litigation on behalf of immigrants rights, including national and regional class actions, petitions for review, habeas actions, mandamus suits, damages litigation, and litigation under the Freedom of Information Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. |
| DAF GIVING 360 | OMAHA, NE | $12,771 | 2025 | Our mission is to increase charitable giving in the U.S. We do this by providing a tax-smart and simple giving solution of a donor-advised fund (DAF) account and related philanthropic tools and guidance that empower donors to incorporate planning into their everyday lives. |
| LONE STAR JUSTICE ALLIANCE | AUSTIN, TX | $25,000 | 2024 | To boldly address systemic failures in the justice system through advocacy and innovative evidence-based programs that improve life outcomes for youth and emerging adults. |
| UPPER SEVEN LAW | HELENA, MT | $25,000 | 2024 | Upper Seven Law is a 501(c)(3) Montana-based nonprofit law firm dedicated to holding the powerful accountable. Based on the belief that creativity and innovation in law are essential to advancing social justice and public interest objectives, this firm takes smart risks and invests the time necessary to build foundations for long-term accountability work. |
| A BETTER CHILDHOOD | NEW YORK, NY | $25,000 | 2024 | A Better Childhood is a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit advocacy organization that uses the courts to reform dysfunctional child welfare systems around the country. |
| TEXAS FAIR DEFENSE PROJECT | AUSTIN, TX | $25,000 | 2024 | IMPROVE THE FAIRNESS OF TEXAS'S CRIMINAL COURTS AND ENSURE THAT ALL TEXANS HAVE ACCESS TO JUSTICE. |
| RIGHTS BEHIND BARS | WASHINGTON, DC | $25,000 | 2024 | Appellate AdvocacyRights Behind Bars tracks conditions litigation and offers representation or other aid to uncounseled clients or small firm lawyers on appeal. Once on appeal, we often partner with pro bono appellate specialists or civil rights groups. Through our intervention, we make the strongest possible case to win on behalf of our immediate clients. Our interventions also establish strong case law that sends the message to prisons and jails that they are not above the law and will ultimately be held accountable for failing to treat incarcerated individuals with the dignity the law requires.Affirmative LitigationApproach trial litigation through a movement lawyering framework. This means that litigation is just one tool, among many, that are used to achieve the goals of the clients and movements served. Innovative trial litigation with public advocacy, education, media and organizing strategies are paired to ensure that our work has a broader and more sustainable scope than what |
| BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LA | WASHINGTON, DC | $50,000 | 2023 | Advocate for the civil rights, full inclusion, and equality of adults and children with mental disabilities. |
| NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW | OAKLAND, CA | $50,000 | 2023 | The National Center for Youth Law is a non-profit law firm that helps low-income children achieve their potential by transforming the public agencies that serve them. |
| UPTOWN PEOPLE'S LAW CENTER | CHICAGO, IL | $50,000 | 2023 | Uptown People's Law Center has been dedicated to supporting the struggle of poor and working people. We believe that everyone has fundamental human rights which deserve protection, including people in prison, people experiencing homelessness, people who are disabled, and tenants. We are lawyers and community advocates who work on behalf of: Prisoners denied their basic human rightsTenants facing evictionIndividuals seeking Social Security disability incomeIn addition to brief service and legal representation, our staff provides training to community members and organizations, and recruits and supervises pro bono attorneys to assist our clients. |
| IMMIGRANT DEFENSE PROJECT | NEW YORK, NY | $50,000 | 2023 | The Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) was founded over 20 years ago to combat an emerging human rights crisis: the targeting of immigrants for mass imprisonment and deportation.As this crisis has continued to escalate, IDP has remained steadfast in fighting for fairness and justice for all immigrants caught at the intersection of the racially biased U.S. criminal and immigration systems. IDP fights to end the current era of unprecedented mass criminalization, detention and deportation through a multipronged strategy including advocacy, litigation, legal advice and training, community defense, grassroots alliances, and strategic communications. |
| NORTHWEST IMMIGRANT RIGHTS | SEATTLE, WA | $50,000 | 2023 | Northwest Immigrant Rights Project promotes justice by defending and advancing the rights of immigrants through direct legal services, systemic advocacy, and community education. |