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Illinois crime and legal aid organizations

There are 702 criminal and legal assistance organizations in Illinois. Combined, these Illinoisan crime and legal aid organizations employ 4,549 people, earn more than $587 million in revenue each year, and have assets of $767 million.
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Types of crime and legal aid organizations in Illinois

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Crime prevention organizations
 
182
 
$141,273,905
Felon rehabilitation programs
 
128
 
$79,529,963
Abuse and exploitation prevention organizations
 
100
 
$77,769,408
Legal aid services
 
89
 
$210,652,578
Crime and legal aid professional societies
 
59
 
$43,190,939
Child abuse prevention organizations
 
43
 
$42,147,025
Organizations supporting multiple crime and legal aid nonprofits
 
21
 
$326,768
Crime and legal aid alliances and advocates
 
21
 
$1,824,197
Organizations supporting a single crime or legal aid nonprofit
 
10
 
$4,407,927
Crime and legal aid research and public policy institutes
 
7
 
$12,463,716
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Crime and legal aid organizations by major Illinois cities

Metro areaNonprofitsRevenues
Chicago
 
520
 
$483,724,985
St. Louis, MO
 
30
 
$20,633,793
Springfield, IL
 
26
 
$42,337,692
Davenport, IA
 
15
 
$4,006,042
Rockford
 
14
 
$23,271,794
Peoria
 
12
 
$555,584
Champaign
 
9
 
$4,047,062
Bloomington, IL
 
9
 
$567,888
Carbondale
 
8
 
$852,201
Kankakee
 
6
 
$1,972,363
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Job trends for Illinois crime and legal aid organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
 
79
1-10
 
81
11-25
 
41
26-100
 
27
101 to 1,000
 
10
1,000+
 
0
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Sizes of crime and legal aid organizations in Illinois

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
 
185
$250k to $1M
 
84
$1M to $5M
 
54
$5M to $25M
 
20
$25M to $100M
 
5
$100M+
 
0
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Directory of crime and legal aid organizations in Illinois

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DRI - Voice of the Defense Bar

The Defense Research Institute, Inc. (Dri), a Wisconsin not-for-profit corporation, is involved in the following roles: to teach, educate and improve the skills of the Defense law practitioner; to strive for improvement in the civil justice system; to be ....
Revenue
$11.3m
Assets
$15.9m
Employees
53
EIN
39-0978501
IRS type
501(c)(6)

Lawyers' Center for Better Housing

LCBH provides legal representation, advocacy, and education to promote renters' rights to safe, accessible, and affordable housing.
Revenue
$5.7m
Assets
$4.3m
Employees
56
EIN
36-3134577
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Chicago Bar Foundation

The Chicago Bar Foundation brings The legal community together through advocacy, funding, and innovation to improve access to justice for people in need and to make The legal system more fair, equitable, and effective.
Revenue
$9.9m
Assets
$5.3m
Employees
15
EIN
36-6109584
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Impact for Equity (BPI)

Business and Professional People for the Public Interest has served the Chicago region as an independent public interest law and policy center addressing compelling issues of social justice and quality of life for nearly a half century.
Revenue
$5.2m
Assets
$11.7m
Employees
18
EIN
36-2675852
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB)

NICB leads industry and law enforcement efforts to prevent and combat insurance fraud through data analytics, investigations, learning, and geospatial support.
Revenue
$69.6m
Assets
$82.1m
Employees
439
EIN
36-3776789
IRS type
501(c)(4)

Shriver Center on Poverty Law

National leadership advancing laws, policies and systems changes to improve the lives of people living in poverty. Trains and develops equal justice advocates.
Revenue
$5.0m
Assets
$11.1m
Employees
46
EIN
36-3151279
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Safer Foundation

For more than 40 years, the Safer Foundation's mission has focused on reducing recidivism by offering job-readiness training, GED preparation, and other supportive services to help those with criminal records successfully re-enter society.
Revenue
$39.2m
Assets
$25.4m
Employees
353
EIN
36-2762168
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Federal Defender Program

Federal Defender Program provides legal services and clinical education for indigent clients in the Northern District of Illinois.
Revenue
$10.3m
Assets
$1.1m
Employees
45
EIN
36-2581185
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Thomas More Society

Headquartered in Chicago, the Thomas More Society defends the sanctity of human life, the family and religious liberty in courtrooms across the country. The Society is a nonprofit organization wholly supported by private donations.
Revenue
$13.3m
Assets
$2.7m
Employees
43
EIN
36-4270023
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Land of Lincoln Legal Aid

The mission of Land of Lincoln Legal Assistance Foundation is to provide eligible low-income and senior residents of central and southern Illinois with high quality civil legal services in order to obtain and maintain their basic human needs.
Revenue
$16.4m
Assets
$16.4m
Employees
186
EIN
37-0958448
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Westside Justice Center

The Westside Justice Center focuses on providing holistic legal services. In The last year The wjc has done more than 500 pro bono legal intakes covering all aspects of legal and quasi legal issues.
Revenue
$8.9m
Assets
$2.7m
Employees
9
EIN
81-0968030
IRS type
501(c)(3)

American Bar Endowment

American Bar Endowment provides grants and insurance programs to support legal research, education, and justice administration throughout the United States.
Revenue
$24.3m
Assets
$190.1m
Employees
12
EIN
36-2384321
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA)

Prevent Child Abuse America, founded in 1972, works to ensure the healthy development of children nationwide while recognizing that child development is a building block for community development and economic development.
Revenue
$8.8m
Assets
$16.9m
Employees
57
EIN
23-7235671
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Chicago Area Project (CAP)

The mission of the Chicago Area Project is to work toward the prevention and eradication of juvenile delinquency through the development and support of affiliated local community self-help efforts in communities where the need is the greatest.
Revenue
$5.7m
Assets
$1.4m
Employees
133
EIN
36-2256023
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lawndale Christian Legal Center

Restorative justice legal services and social support for Chicago youth, focused on those in the criminal justice system.
Revenue
$6.0m
Assets
$3.0m
Employees
82
EIN
27-2285007
IRS type
501(c)(3)

National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC)

The mission of the National Commission on Correctional Health Care is to improve the quality of health care in jails, prisons and juvenile confinement facilities.
Revenue
$6.4m
Assets
$11.4m
Employees
26
EIN
36-3221830
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Illinois Equal Justice Foundation (IEJF)

To distribute funding appropriated by the state of Illinois to effective not-for-profit legal aid organizations. These funds directly help low-income families, victims of domestic violence, veterans and seniors address their legal crises.
Revenue
$14.3m
Assets
$10.9m
Employees
3
EIN
37-1188469
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois

Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois provides grant funds to not-for-profit organizations for legal assistance to the poor throughout Illinois and other public benefit programs approved by the Supreme Court of Illinois.
Revenue
$28.7m
Assets
$34.4m
Employees
5
EIN
36-3213132
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Build

To engage at-risk youth in the schools and on the streets, so they can realize their educational and career potential and contribute to the stability, safety and well being of our communities.
Revenue
$26.2m
Assets
$30.1m
Employees
409
EIN
23-7022085
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Institute for Nonviolence Chicago

Institute for Nonviolence Chicago fosters nonviolent practices and principles to end violence cycle in communities of Chicago.
Revenue
$10.2m
Assets
$3.4m
Employees
0
EIN
81-1098722
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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