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Accountable Justice Action Fund

The association supports and promotes criminal justice reform via public education, advocacy, donor advising and grant making.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$26MPublic Benefit$4.8MCivil Rights$941kHuman Services$250k
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $598k
  • $250k+5 grants · $4.3M
$125,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC$2,200,000
COLOROFCHANGEORG$750,000
STRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION$700,000
JUSTICE RESEARCH GROUP$400,000
VOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE$300,000
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE ACTION INC$200,000
THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY$125,000
STEP UP FOR ACTION$90,000
MEMPHIS FOR ALL$80,000
NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED$53,000
STARTING OVER STRONG$50,000
THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY PAC$27,400
THE PEOPLE'S LOBBY$22,600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $510k → 14%Forward Justice Action Network: $200k → 11%Citizen Action of New York: $250k → 14%NEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $53k → 17%FORWARD JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK: $50k → 11%People for Fairness and Justice PAC: $250k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
NC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 18 repeat orgs$4.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

18 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

$27M
$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
0%

Still filing today

83%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $383k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.3M · revenue +57%
  • C
    COLOROFCHANGEORG
    3× · 2019–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +22%
  • TA
    TIDES ADVOCACY
    5× · 2019–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • WF
    WORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL PAC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.9M
  • WH
    Womens Health & Safety PAC
    one grant, 2022 · $380k
  • VL
    VOTE LIBERATION
    one grant, 2020 · $338k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Southern Coalition for Social Justice

Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…

Crime & Legal
3
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
4
Missouri Jobs With Justice Voter Action

To develop and advocate for legislation, regulations, ballot initiatives, and government programs as a voice of the working class, to promote social justice, and to stimulate the economy; and, to conduct research, educate the public, and…

Civil Rights
5
Organize for Justice

Organize for justice develops diverse campaign leadership by passing on innovations and relationships from one generation of organizers to the next. the organization strives to create public support on issues affecting working americans.

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6
Powerswitch Action

Powerswitch action is a national network forging collective democracy and economies in our cities and states, together with our 21 grassroots affiliates.

Community Improvement
7
Six Action

Six action realizes a bold policy agenda that secures and sustains meaningful racial, gender, social and economic justice outcomes that center the people most impacted by systemic and structural oppression. we support values-aligned state…

Civil Rights
8
Just Strategy

Just Strategy builds powerful issue campaigns that win. We educate organizers and movement leaders. We help develop effective strategies for racial and economic justice movements. We create innovative organizing projects where we see a…

Civil Rights
9
Justice Action Network

The mission of the Corporation is to promote the common good and general welfare of citizens of the United States by advocating in favor of reforms to criminal justice policy that will maximize the effective and fair use of limited public…

Crime & Legal
10
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
11
New Disabled South Inc

To improve the lives of disabled people and build strong disability justice and rights movements in the South through research & knowledge building, advocacy & policy change, non-partisan voter engagement, and coalition building.

Health
12
New Jersey Citizen Action

To protect and expand the rights of citizens of the state of new jersey, and encourage active citizen involvement in campaigns promoting economic, social and racial equity.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Straight Ahead Organization; the most unlike its peers is Justice Research Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 43 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

13
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
13/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUSTICE RESEARCH GROUP: $5,300,000 · OtherJUSTICE RESEARCH GROUPCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $3,795,782 · OtherCOLOROFCHANGEORGTIDES ADVOCACY: $2,966,250 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $2,040,435 · OtherTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECTWORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL PAC: $1,950,000 · OtherWORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL PACWORKING FAMILIES PARTY NATIONAL INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE: $1,101,000 · OtherSTRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION: $1,000,000 · Other+23 more: $3,911,085 · Other+23 moreWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $6,340,000 · Civil RightsWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION …VOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUND: $1,260,000 · Civil RightsVOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VO…NEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $695,000 · Civil RightsNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY+5 more: $335,000 · Civil RightsCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $760,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $250,000 · Human ServicesFORWARD JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK: $250,000 · Human ServicesNEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $53,000 · Human ServicesColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit: $50,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$22,064,552Civil Rights$8,630,000Human Services$1,313,000Crime & Legal$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWORKING FAMILIES ORGANIZATION INC: $6,340,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetJUSTICE RESEARCH GROUP: $5,300,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $3,795,782 over 3y, 16% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $2,966,250 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $2,040,435 over 3y, 64% of budgetVOTERS ORGANIZED TO EDUCATE-VOTE ACTION FUND: $1,260,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetSTRAIGHT AHEAD ORGANIZATION: $1,000,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetCITIZEN ACTION OF NEW YORK INC: $760,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetNEW VIRGINIA MAJORITY: $695,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S LOBBY: $527,600 over 4y, 41% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $475,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetGOVERNANCE PROTECTION PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK: $250,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetALL HANDS ON DECK NETWORK INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE INC: $200,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetStep Up for Action: $120,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetACTION ST LOUIS POWER PROJECT: $115,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetACTION FOR LIBERATION: $80,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMemphis for All: $80,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetNew Disabled South Rising Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetNEW YORK STATE IMMIGRANT ACTION FUND INCORPORATED: $53,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit: $50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSTARTING OVER STRONG: $50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetOhio Families Unite for Political Action and Change: $50,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetPROGRESSIVE STATE LEADERS COMMITTEE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUL in Action: $25,000 over 1y, 27% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Tides AdvocacyAll Hands on Deck Net…Sixteen Thirty FundWorking Families Orga…America VotesOpen Society Action F…Proteus Action LeagueWay to Win Action Fun…Center for Community …Tides FoundationOpen Philanthropy Act…The Heising-Simons Ac…
Tides AdvocacyCA39.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Accountable Justice Action Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Accountable Justice Action Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Accountable Justice Action Fund?

    Find your warmest path to Accountable Justice Action Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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