Law School Admission Council
Newtown, PA · EIN 13-2998164. Reported 77 grants totalling $4,341,478 to 49 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 Law School Admission Council, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B900) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 17% 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. 58% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $75,000; the smallest was $6,000 and the largest $733,692. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| National Center for Civic Innovation Inc | New York, NY | $750,304 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Crossroads Ministry | Vineburg, CA | $375,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Indiana University Research | Detroit, MI | $338,408 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Edp University of Puerto Rico Inc | San Juan, PR | $283,011 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $217,677 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Seattle University | Seattle, WA | $213,971 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of Memphis Foundation | Memphis, TN | $213,337 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc | Boston, MA | $174,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Tulane University School of Medicine -Aoa Chapter | New Orleans, LA | $149,177 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| American Indian Law Center Inc | Albuquerque, NM | $132,052 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Carlisle, PA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Akron Foundation | Akron, OH | $121,950 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Council on Legal Education Opportunity Inc | Alexandria, VA | $120,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| University of Houston Law Foundation | Houston, TX | $115,821 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| St Johns University New York | Jamaica, NY | $112,126 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Central University | Durham, NC | $98,644 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| University of Alabama Law School Foundation | Tuscaloosa, AL | $96,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| University of Denver | Denver, CO | $76,904 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| North Carolina Central University Foundation Inc | Durham, NC | $64,332 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $57,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Street Law Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Norfolk State University Foundation Inc | Norfolk, VA | $32,903 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| University of Baltimore Foundation Inc | Baltimore, MD | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reuben V Anderson Center for Justice | Tougaloo, MS | $26,786 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Tuskegee University | Tuskegee Institute, AL | $26,573 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | New Orleans, LA | $16,835 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Youth Justice Alliance | Austin, TX | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Dillard University | New Orleans, LA | $14,164 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fayetteville State University Foundation Inc | Fayetteville, NC | $13,460 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University Los Angeles Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $11,142 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law | Columbia, MO | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fayetteville State University | Fayetteville, NC | $10,318 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Southern University Law Center | Baton Rouge, LA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lawschool Admissions Council Inc | Newtown, PA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Thompson Rivers University | Georgetown, KY | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Foundation for California Community Colleges | Sacramento, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Just the Beginning - a Pipeline Organization | Chicago, IL | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Suffolk University | Boston, MA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Toledo Foundation | Toledo, OH | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas Foundation | Las Vegas, NV | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Utah Center for Legal Inclusion | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| L&s Foundation | Vancouver, WA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Montclair State University | Montclair, NJ | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | New Orleans, LA | $6,882 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Washburn University | Topeka, KS | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $6,201 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western New England University | Springfield, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
21 of 49 (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 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.
- The Pennsylvania State University
ANTIRACIST DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE - University of Missouri - Columbia School of Law
MINK LAWFAIR 2022,2023 AND 2024 - Washburn University
MINK LAWFAIR 2022 AND 2023
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $864,602 | $90,334 |
| 2021 | 19 | $912,264 | $40,000 |
| 2022 | 22 | $1,589,078 | $18,180 |
| 2023 | 25 | $975,534 | $13,460 |
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
20% of its giving went to organizations in New York. 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.
Down to the city
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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 $20,000 -- 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 New York.
- 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 Law School Admission Council'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: 662 Penn Street, Newtown, PA, 18940.
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