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Alliance for Safety and Justice
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization, and advocacy.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $271k
- $250k+1 grant · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY BASED PUBLIC SAFETY COLLECTIVE | $14,083,518 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE | $124,062 |
| NEWARK COMMUNITY STREET TEAM | $76,700 |
| MICHIGAN JUSTICE FUND-COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN | $70,000 |
| ACCOUNTING FOR YOUR FUTURE | $25,000 |
| RECORD CLEARANCE PROJECT FS THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERS | $18,586 |
| EMPACT COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION | $15,200 |
| ONE VOICE | $15,000 |
| FLOWERS AND BULLETS | $15,000 |
| BOYS TO MEN TUCSON | $15,000 |
| INDEPENDENT ARTS AND MEDIA | $12,000 |
| A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| REPAC FS TIDES ADVOCACY | $10,000 |
| STARTING OVER INC | $10,000 |
| ESSIE JUSTICE | $10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +2% since the first grant, against -46% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE3× · 2023–2025 · $372k
- NCNewark Community Street Team Inc2× · 2022–2025 · $92k · revenue +2%
- AFAccounting For Your Future4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +113% · 56% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -58%
- SJSAFE & JUST MICHIGANone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -76%
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -47%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…
The mission of the Corporation is to maximize the effective and fair use of limited public resources in the criminal justice system.
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OneJustice's mission is to strengthen the legal services sector's expertise and capacity to advance justice and equity.
Silicon Valley De-Bug is a grassroots community organization based in San Jose, California comprised of young people and families from disadvantaged communities coming together to give voice to our typically unseen and unheard experiences…
The Network is a group of 40+ member organizations dedicated to improving the lives of those impacted by gender-based violence through education, public policy and advocacy, and connecting community members with direct service providers.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan and the most unlike its peers is Ex-Offender Fellowship Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 93% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 27 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Community Based Public Safety Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAFE & JUST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Newark Community Street Team Inc ↗
- Who funds Accounting For Your Future ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BROKEN BY VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds EX-OFFENDER FELLOWSHIP NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds One Voice ↗
- Who funds Boys to Men Tucson Inc ↗
- Who funds FLOWERS AND BULLETS ↗
- Who funds Independent Arts & Media ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds STARTING OVER INC ↗
- Who funds COURT WATCH NOLA ↗
- Who funds Essie Justice Group ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Tides Center · Marguerite Casey Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alliance for Safety and Justice funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.