Law School Admission Council
Newtown, PA · EIN 13-2998164. Reported 90 grants totalling $4,494,684 to 54 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. 54 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. 45% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $16,577. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $64,332; the smallest was $5,422 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 | $755,726 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Crossroads Ministry | Vineburg, CA | $375,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Indiana University Research | Detroit, MI | $353,147 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Edp University of Puerto Rico Inc | San Juan, PR | $283,011 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Seattle University | Seattle, WA | $240,918 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| University of Oregon | Eugene, OR | $217,677 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| 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 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $130,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Norfolk State University Foundation Inc | Norfolk, VA | $44,004 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Street Law Inc | Silver Spring, MD | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Fayetteville State University Foundation Inc | Fayetteville, NC | $28,457 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Widener University | Chester, PA | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University of Toledo Foundation | Toledo, OH | $13,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America - Leda | New York, NY | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Law School Yes We Can | Denver, CO | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Arkansas at Little Rock | Little Rock, AR | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Western New England University | Springfield, MA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
25 of 54 (46%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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 the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 38 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 |
| 2024 | 13 | $153,206 | $9,000 |
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.
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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 a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $16,577 -- 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 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 662 Penn Street, Newtown, PA, 18940.
EIN 13-2998164 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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