New York · Public charity
Accountable Justice Action Fund
The association supports and promotes criminal justice reform via public education, advocacy, donor advising and grant making. Our core programmatic areas are grants and donor advising.
- $5.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 56%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $125,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 17
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $18M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Accountable Justice Action Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $5.0M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $5.4M | 56% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $7.1M | 42% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $2.1M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $8.0M | 65% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $4.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Families Organization Inc | $6,340,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Justice Research Group | $5,300,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Colorofchangeorg | $3,795,782 | 3 | 16% |
| Tides Advocacy | $2,966,250 | 5 | 5% |
| Texas Organizing Project | $2,040,435 | 3 | 64% |
| Working Families Party National PAC | $1,950,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Voters Organized to Educate-Vote Action Fund | $1,260,000 | 3 | 88% |
| Working Families Party National Independent Expenditure Committee | $1,101,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Straight Ahead Organization | $1,000,000 | 2 | 87% |
| Citizen Action of New York Inc | $760,000 | 2 | 98% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Working Families Organization Inc | $6,340,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Justice Research Group | $5,300,000 | 4 | 100% |
| Colorofchangeorg | $3,795,782 | 3 | 16% |
| Tides Advocacy | $2,966,250 | 5 | 5% |
| Texas Organizing Project | $2,040,435 | 3 | 64% |
| Working Families Party National PAC | $1,950,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Voters Organized to Educate-Vote Action Fund | $1,260,000 | 3 | 88% |
| Working Families Party National Independent Expenditure Committee | $1,101,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Straight Ahead Organization | $1,000,000 | 2 | 87% |
| Citizen Action of New York Inc | $760,000 | 2 | 98% |
| New Virginia Majority | $695,000 | 3 | 6% |
| The People's Lobby | $527,600 | 4 | 41% |
| The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights Inc | $475,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Womens Health & Safety PAC | $380,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vote Liberation | $337,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Colorofchange PAC | $308,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Governance Protection Project | $250,000 | 1 | 50% |
| Forward Justice Action Network | $250,000 | 2 | 16% |
| BlackPAC | $215,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Liberation Action Fund | $210,000 | 1 | n/a |
| All Hands on Deck Network Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 5% |
| New Nation Rising PAC | $191,950 | 1 | n/a |
| Step Up for Action | $120,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Action St Louis Power Project | $115,000 | 2 | 22% |
| Action for Liberation | $80,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Memphis for All | $80,000 | 1 | 17% |
| Real Justice PAC | $78,635 | 1 | n/a |
| New Georgia Project Action Fund | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| New Disabled South Rising Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 60% |
| The People's Lobby PAC | $67,400 | 3 | n/a |
| New York State Immigrant Action Fund Incorporated | $53,000 | 1 | 26% |
| Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Starting Over Strong | $50,000 | 1 | 33% |
| Ohio Families Unite for Political Action and Change | $50,000 | 1 | 53% |
| Progressive State Leaders Committee Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 3% |
| United Working Familes PAC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fighting for Justice PAC | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| SOUL in Action | $25,000 | 1 | 27% |
| New Direction PAC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dream Defenders Political Action Committee | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mijente PAC | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Where it is load-bearing
Accountable Justice Action Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tides Advocacy · All Hands on Deck Network Inc · Sixteen Thirty Fund · Working Families Organization Inc · America Votes · Open Society Action Fund Inc · Proteus Action League · Way to Win Action Fund Inc · Center for Community Change Action · Tides Foundation · Open Philanthropy Action Fund · The Heising-Simons Action Fund
How this is measured
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About Accountable Justice Action Fund
- How much does Accountable Justice Action Fund give?
- Accountable Justice Action Fund reported 13 grants totaling $4,998,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 17 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Accountable Justice Action Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (81%), Public Benefit (15%), Civil Rights (3%).
- Who are Accountable Justice Action Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Working Families Organization Inc ($6.3M), Justice Research Group ($5.3M), Colorofchangeorg ($3.8M).
- Does Accountable Justice Action Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Accountable Justice Action Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Advocacy, All Hands on Deck Network Inc, Sixteen Thirty Fund.
- Where is Accountable Justice Action Fund based?
- Accountable Justice Action Fund is based in NY.
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