The Innocence Project
National Criminal Justice
#1 Top Nonprofit
The Innocence Project was founded in 1992 by Barry C. Scheck and Peter J. Neufeld at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University to assist prisoners who could be proven innocent through DNA testing. To date, 273…

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
National Criminal Justice
#2 Top Nonprofit
The ACLU is our nation's guardian of liberty, working daily in courts, legislatures and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

Southern Center for Human Rights (Georgia)
Local Criminal Justice
#2 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…

Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy (MCEA)
Minnesota Environment
#2 Top Nonprofit
MCEA is a nonprofit organization using law, science and research to protect Minnesota's natural resources, wildlife and the health of its people. At the heart of our mission is a reverence for nature and a fundamental commitment to sustain and…

Southern Center for Human Rights
National Criminal Justice
#6 Top Nonprofit
The Southern Center for Human Rights provides legal representation to people facing the death penalty, challenges human rights violations in prisons and jails, seeks through litigation and advocacy to improve legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, and advocates…

Texas Defender Service (Texas)
Local Criminal Justice
#7 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to establish a fair and just criminal justice system in Texas.

National Senior Citizens Law Center (NSCLC)
National Aging
#8 Top Nonprofit
The National Senior Citizens Law Center mission is to protect the rights of low-income older adults.

Equality Now
International Violence Against Women
#9 Top Nonprofit
Equality Now works for the protection and promotion of the human rights of women and girls around the world. Working with grassroots women’s and human rights organizations and individual activists since 1992, Equality Now documents violence and discrimination against women…

Prison Law Office (California)
Local Criminal Justice
#10 Top Nonprofit
The Prison Law Office provides free legal services to California state prisoners, and occasionally to California state parolees. Our assistance is generally limited to cases regarding conditions of confinement. Further, the office does not typically assist or represent prisoners in…

Sierra Club North Star Chapter
Minnesota Environment
#10 Top Nonprofit
To explore, enjoy, and protect the wild places of the earth; To practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources; To educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human…

Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition (CCJRC) (Colorado)
Local Criminal Justice
#12 Top Nonprofit
CCJRC's mission is to reverse the trend of mass incarceration in Colorado.

Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness
Minnesota Environment
#12 Top Nonprofit
The mission of Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness is to protect, preserve and restore the wilderness character of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness - our nation's priceless, million-acre landscape of blue lakes and boreal forest - and of…

Legal Services for Prisoners with Children
National Criminal Justice
#14 Top Nonprofit
Our mission is to advocate for the civil rights and empowerment of incarcerated parents, children, family members and people at risk for incarceration through responding to requests for information, trainings, technical assistance, litigation, community activism and the development of more…