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New York City crime and legal aid organizations

There are 929criminal and legal assistance organizations in the greater New York Citymetro area, including the cities of New York, Jersey City, Lakewood, Newark, New Brunswick, and White Plains within the states of New York and New Jersey. Combined, these New York City metro crime and legal aid organizationsemploy 20,278 people, earn more than $3 billion in revenue each year, and have assets of $4 billion.
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Types of crime and legal aid organizations in New York City

Nonprofit typeNumberRevenues
Legal aid services
177
$1,595,275,712
Crime prevention organizations
172
$221,271,858
Felon rehabilitation programs
165
$407,644,152
Abuse and exploitation prevention organizations
105
$81,369,869
Crime and legal aid professional societies
84
$66,784,041
Crime and legal aid alliances and advocates
32
$1,110,389
Child abuse prevention organizations
30
$55,369,448
Organizations supporting a single crime or legal aid nonprofit
22
$4,212,562
Organizations supporting multiple crime and legal aid nonprofits
17
$723,135
Crime and legal aid research and public policy institutes
12
$112,687,864
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Job trends for New York City crime and legal aid organizations

Employees per organizationNumber of organizations
0
147
1-10
97
11-25
46
26-100
51
101 to 1,000
44
1,000+
1
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Sizes of crime and legal aid organizations in New York City

Revenues per organizationNumber of organizations
< $250k
256
$250k to $1M
116
$1M to $5M
81
$5M to $25M
50
$25M to $100M
23
$100M+
5
Key takeaways for revenue stats:

Directory of crime and legal aid organizations in New York City

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Vera Institute of Justice

The Vera Institute of Justice combines expertise in research, demonstration projects, and technical assistance to help leaders in government and civil society improve the systems people rely on for justice and safety.
Revenue
$263.2m
Assets
$256.3m
Employees
471
EIN
13-1941627
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Urban Justice Center

Urban Justice Center advocates for marginalized communities, providing legal services and mentorship while promoting systemic change for a just society.
Revenue
$32.5m
Assets
$30.3m
Employees
172
EIN
13-3442022
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund seeks to improve their understanding of the causes of gun violence and the means to reduce it by conducting groundbreaking original research, developing evidence-based policies, and communicating this knowledge.
Revenue
$58.5m
Assets
$48.1m
Employees
118
EIN
26-1598353
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Innocence Project

The Innocence Project works to exonerate innocent people through DNA testing and reform the criminal justice system to prevent injustice.
Revenue
$32.5m
Assets
$105.8m
Employees
127
EIN
32-0077563
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Pro Bono Net (PBN)

Pro Bono Net is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing access to justice through innovative uses of technology and increased volunteer lawyer participation.
Revenue
$6.1m
Assets
$3.3m
Employees
35
EIN
06-1521179
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Everytown for Gun Safety

Everytown is a movement of Americans working together to end gun violence and build safer communities. Gun violence touches every town in America.
Revenue
$65.7m
Assets
$18.5m
Employees
217
EIN
20-8802884
IRS type
501(c)(4)

Center for Popular Democracy (CPD)

The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.
Revenue
$30.0m
Assets
$37.1m
Employees
139
EIN
45-3813436
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Brennan Center for Justice

The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that works to reform, revitalize - and when necessary, defend - their country's systems of democracy and justice.
Revenue
$110.5m
Assets
$288.7m
Employees
218
EIN
13-3839293
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation

To advance social and economic justice by empowering communities through innovative, collaborative, neighborhood-based legal representation and advocacy.
Revenue
$12.6m
Assets
$7.8m
Employees
94
EIN
13-2605599
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Appellate Advocates

Appellate Advocates provides high-quality legal representation to indigents who are appealing judgments of criminal conviction in New York City.
Revenue
$15.4m
Assets
$10.3m
Employees
0
EIN
11-3305212
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Advocates for Children of New York (AFC)

AFC is dedicated exclusively to protecting every child's right to an education, focusing on students from low-income backgrounds who are struggling in school or experiencing school discrimination of any kind.
Revenue
$8.6m
Assets
$22.6m
Employees
53
EIN
11-2247307
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The City Bar Fund

The City Bar Fund is the nonprofit 501(c)(3) arm of the New York City Bar Association aimed at engaging and supporting the legal profession in advancing social justice.
Revenue
$10.1m
Assets
$17.1m
Employees
68
EIN
13-6003018
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County

Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County provides legal assistance to indigent individuals, prioritizing defense aid to repeat felony offenders.
Revenue
$24.7m
Assets
$8.9m
Employees
243
EIN
11-1844160
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Nassau-Suffolk Law Services

Nassau Suffolk Law Services' mission is to provide quality legal services in civil matters in a manner that respects the individual dignity of low income and disabled individuals and helps insure that they are afforded the full protection and benefits.
Revenue
$16.5m
Assets
$12.7m
Employees
171
EIN
11-2125411
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Legal Aid Society of Westchester County

Legal representation for indigent Westchester residents charged with felony crimes and mandated constitutional law protection, based in White Plains.
Revenue
$16.4m
Assets
$16.9m
Employees
107
EIN
13-2503820
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Legal Services of New Jersey (LSNJ)

LSNJ, an independent, non-profit organization, coordinates the statewide Legal Services system. LSNJ strives to ensure equal access to justice under law to all people of NJ, providing free legal assistance to low-income people in civil matters.
Revenue
$75.1m
Assets
$40.6m
Employees
254
EIN
22-2059939
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Lawyers for Children

Free legal advocacy and social work for children in NY experiencing maltreatment, foster care, parental rights termination, custody disputes, adoption or youth justice.
Revenue
$9.1m
Assets
$9.5m
Employees
74
EIN
13-3202043
IRS type
501(c)(3)

The Osborne Association

The Osborne Association provides alternatives to incarceration, job training and placement, and reentry services in the Bronx.
Revenue
$39.4m
Assets
$36.5m
Employees
549
EIN
13-5563028
IRS type
501(c)(3)

New Jersey Reentry A NJ Nonprofit Corporation

NJ Reentry provides critical services to court-involved individuals, including addiction treatment, transitional housing, and employment opportunities.
Revenue
$10.6m
Assets
$16.3m
Employees
126
EIN
47-2139071
IRS type
501(c)(3)

Central Jersey Legal Services

Nonprofit law firm providing free legal help to low-income residents in Mercer, Middlesex, and Union counties with four offices.
Revenue
$13.3m
Assets
$7.3m
Employees
89
EIN
21-0684259
IRS type
501(c)(3)
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Methodology: Cause IQ mines all tax-exempt organizations that file a Form 990, Form 990-EZ, or Form 990-PF with the IRS. We collect and aggregate this information from OCR'd paper taxreturns, XML e-file taxreturns, IRS-provided extract, the Business Master File, and Cause IQ secret sauce for data cleaning, categorization, classification, analytics, etc.
This category corresponds to the "I00: Crime, Legal: General" National Taxonomy of Exempt Entities (NTEE) code. Cause IQ determines NTEEs for organizations by its own internally-developed secret-sauce algorithms.
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