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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.

$15M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$14M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Public Safety & Disaster$14MHealth$282kCrime & Legal$253kPhilanthropy$145kEducation$143kScience & Tech$124kPublic Benefit$124kHousing & Shelter$82kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $156k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $271k
  • $250k+1 grant · $14M
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
REPAC FS TIDES ADVOCACY$10,000
STARTING OVER INC$10,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT$10,000
ESSIE JUSTICE$10,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Broken by Violence: $26k → 10%FLOWERS AND BULLETS: $15k → 15%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

MI
OH
NJ
CA
AZ
TN
LA
MS
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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$586k · 4 repeat orgs$15M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +2% since the first grant, against -46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$586k
$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
-46%

Still filing today

75%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $372k
  • NC
    Newark Community Street Team Inc
    2× · 2022–2025 · $92k · revenue +2%
  • AF
    Accounting For Your Future
    4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +113% · 56% of their budget

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -58%
  • SJ
    SAFE & JUST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -76%
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -47%
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
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
2
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
3
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
4
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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5
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
6
California Partnership Safe Communities

stakeholders concerned with violence to build working alliances that span the often deep divisions among criminal justice agencies, the community, and young people at highest risk of gun violence. By prioritizing respect and dignity for…

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7
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,…

Crime & Legal
8
Coalition for Public Safety

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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9
Social Justice and Solidarity Fund

The Funds mission is to provide sustained support to grassroots organizing projects and movements rooted in the multi-racial working class which rely on their members and constituency to build power in the community.

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10
OneJustice

OneJustice's mission is to strengthen the legal services sector's expertise and capacity to advance justice and equity.

—
11
Injustice Watch Nfp

Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.

Civil Rights
12
Silicon Valley De-Bug

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
11/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Community Based Public Safety Collective Inc: $14,083,518 · Public Safety & DisasterCommunity Based Public Safety Collective IncREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $372,186 · OtherThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $72,400 · OtherAccounting For Your Future: $75,000 · OtherBROKEN BY VIOLENCE: $25,800 · OtherEX-OFFENDER FELLOWSHIP NETWORK: $25,000 · Other+10 more: $104,600 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 · HealthA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $46,700 · HealthPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $75,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN: $70,000 · PhilanthropyUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $18,586 · EducationSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN: $100,000 · Public BenefitOne Voice: $15,000 · Public BenefitNewark Community Street Team Inc: $91,700 · Crime & LegalCOURT WATCH NOLA: $10,000 · Crime & LegalEssie Justice Group: $10,000 · Crime & Legal
Public Safety & Disaster$14,083,518Other$674,986Health$196,700Philanthropy$145,000Education$118,586Public Benefit$115,000Crime & Legal$111,700

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 budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN: $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewark Community Street Team Inc: $91,700 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAccounting For Your Future: $75,000 over 4y, 56% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $72,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $46,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROKEN BY VIOLENCE: $25,800 over 1y, 57% of budgetEX-OFFENDER FELLOWSHIP NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $18,586 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLOWERS AND BULLETS: $15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetCOURT WATCH NOLA: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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 CenterMarguerite Casey Foun…NEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationAmalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Tides CenterCA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Alliance for Safety and Justice funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Safety and Justice. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Newark Community Street Team Inc: 38% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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.

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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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