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Clean Slate Initiative Inc

The clean slate initiative passes and implements laws that automatically clear eligible records for people who have completed their sentence and remained crime-free, and expands who is eligible for clearance.

$9.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$850k
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, FY2023 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$3.8MPublic Benefit$3.3MSocial Science$747kEducation$745kCommunity Improvement$655kCivil Rights$613kHuman Services$586kEmployment$194kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $566k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $3.7M
  • $250k+10 grants · $4.8M
$80,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$64M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RIGHT ON CRIMETEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION$850,000
SEARCH GROUP INC$708,043
RBIJNEO PHILANTHROPY$700,000
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$495,305
PRESIDENT & BOARD OF SANTA CLARA$424,880
OHIO TRANSFORMATION FUND$350,000
DUE PROCESS INSTITUTE$350,000
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATION$325,000
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND$322,435
EMPOWER MO$250,000
R STREET INSTITUTE$200,000
UNTIL WE ARE FREE$170,000
SHORE LEGAL ACCESS$170,000
GREATER BOSTON LEGAL$165,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES$160,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $671k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SHORE LEGAL ACCESS: $170k → 10%CENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES: $28k → 19%KY FORUM FOR RIGHTS ECONOMIC AND EDUCATION: $63k → 4%UNTIL WE ARE FREE: $170k → 11%EMPOWER MO: $140k → 21%DELAWARE FAMILY-SPONSORING HEADS UP: $15k → 10%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $60k → 17%COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $25k → 17%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

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
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.

9%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 4 repeat orgs$10M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +178% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$1.0M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+178%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • EM
    EMPOWER MISSOURI
    2× · 2023–2024 · $390k · revenue +229%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $245k · revenue +26%
  • CO
    CONGREGATION ORGANIZED FOR A NEW CT
    2× · 2023–2024 · $230k · revenue +3% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • CF
    CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.3M · revenue -21%
  • FA
    FAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $120k · revenue +26%
  • AC
    American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +7%
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
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
5
Liberty Justice Center

To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…

Crime & Legal
6
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
7
Philadelphia Area Jobs With Justice

Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.

Employment
8
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

—
9
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Delaware Inc

The organization monitors legislation that could impact civil liberties and takes the necessary action to support or oppose such legislation.

—
11
Fines and Fees Justice Center Inc

The fines and fees justice center, inc. ("ffjc") is the only national organization focused exclusively on the unjust and harmful fines and fees imposed in the legal system. through education and advocacy, ffjc works to create a justice…

Crime & Legal
12
Civil Liberties Defense Center

CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc; the most unlike its peers is Delaware Family Restoration Services Inc. 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

53 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. 53 of the 59 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
20/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $1,333,333 · Public BenefitCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INCTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $850,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATIONNEO Philanthropy Inc: $700,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy IncAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC: $325,000 · Public BenefitAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INCSEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED: $708,043 · Crime & LegalSEARCH GROUP INCORPORAT…DUE PROCESS INSTITUTE: $350,000 · Crime & LegalDUE PROCESS INSTITUTEOUT For JUSTICE INC: $153,000 · Crime & LegalOUT For JUSTICE INCOKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC: $150,000 · Crime & LegalOKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL…COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $150,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICE…CABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $145,000 · Crime & LegalCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AIDCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $139,000 · Crime & LegalCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW …Clean Slate Utah: $100,000 · Crime & LegalExpunge Colorado: $96,998 · Crime & LegalLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $85,000 · Crime & Legal+5 more: $209,782 · Crime & Legal+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $368,217 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND …GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $245,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SE…CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $185,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY AL…ILLINOIS COALITION TO END PERMANENT PUNISHMENTS: $145,000 · OtherILLINOIS COALITION TO E…LIVE FREE CHICAGO: $145,000 · OtherLIVE FREE CHICAGOPARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC: $124,991 · OtherPARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIE…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC: $98,512 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $86,455 · OtherMissouri Workers Center: $170,200 · OtherMissouri Workers CenterDREAMORG: $111,427 · OtherINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $134,500 · OtherINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF …THE ARCHER GROUP: $126,500 · OtherTHE ARCHER GROUPMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP: $80,000 · Other+6 more: $246,047 · Other+6 moreTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $495,305 · EducationTHE HOWARD U…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $424,880 · EducationPRESIDENT-BO…R STREET INSTITUTE: $200,000 · EducationR STREET INS…JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION II INC: $75,000 · EducationJUSTICE REFO…VIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 · EducationEMPOWER MISSOURI: $390,000 · Human ServicesEMPOWER M…SHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC: $170,000 · Human ServicesSHORE LEG…UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $170,000 · Human ServicesUNTIL WE …COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $85,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY…KENTUCKY FORUM FOR RIGHTS ECONOMICS AND EDUCATION: $63,451 · Human ServicesKENTUCKY …+2 more: $42,650 · Human ServicesGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $350,000 · Community ImprovementCONGREGATION ORGANIZED FOR A NEW CT: $230,000 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $150,000 · Civil RightsFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $120,000 · Civil RightsWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $110,000 · Civil RightsAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc: $100,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $60,000 · Civil RightsJUSTICE FORWARD VIRGINIA: $50,000 · Civil Rights
Public Benefit$3,208,333Crime & Legal$2,286,823Other$2,266,849Education$1,245,185Human Services$921,101Community Improvement$630,000Civil Rights$590,000

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 budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $1,333,333 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $850,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSEARCH GROUP INCORPORATED: $708,043 over 1y, 14% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $700,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $495,305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $424,880 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER MISSOURI: $390,000 over 2y, 25% of budgetDUE PROCESS INSTITUTE: $350,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetGreater Cleveland Neighborhood Centers: $350,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION INC: $325,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $245,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCONGREGATION ORGANIZED FOR A NEW CT: $230,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetR STREET INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $185,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMissouri Workers Center: $170,200 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetSHORE LEGAL ACCESS INC: $170,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetUNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE MOVEMENT: $170,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetOUT For JUSTICE INC: $153,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetOKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSALVATION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE A NJ N: $150,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCABRINI GREEN LEGAL AID: $145,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLIVE FREE CHICAGO: $145,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetCOLORADO CENTER ON LAW AND POLICY: $139,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetINTERFAITH ALLIANCE OF COLORADO: $134,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE ARCHER GROUP: $126,500 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPARTNERS FOR A HEALTHIER COMMUNITY INC: $124,991 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFAITH AND FREEDOM COALITION INC: $120,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDREAMORG: $111,427 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWorkers Center For Racial Just NFP: $110,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Delaware Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetClean Slate Utah: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF KENTUCKY FOUNDATION INC: $98,512 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetExpunge Colorado: $96,998 over 1y, 66% of budgetLEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $85,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK: $85,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PRISON WRITING WORKSHOP: $80,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetJUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION II INC: $75,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetKENTUCKY FORUM FOR RIGHTS ECONOMICS AND EDUCATION: $63,451 over 1y, 40% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC: $60,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVIRGINIA NEW MAJORITY EDUCATION FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNOLEF TURNS: $50,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetJUSTICE FORWARD VIRGINIA: $50,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetFORWARD JUSTICE: $44,782 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDELAWARE CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $40,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR URBAN FAMILIES INC: $27,650 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

New Venture FundBorealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…United States Energy …Chan Zuckerberg Initi…Windward FundLaura and John Arnold…Foundation to Promote…Tides FoundationHopewell FundNEO Philanthropy IncJustice Action Network
New Venture FundDC57.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · United States Energy Foundation · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Advocacy · Windward Fund · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Tides Foundation · Hopewell Fund · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Justice Action Network

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 Clean Slate Initiative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clean Slate Initiative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 36%
  • Delaware Center for Justice: 73% of income from government
  • Salvation and Social Justice a Nj N: 52% of income from government
  • Center for Urban Families Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Partners for a Healthier Community Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shore Legal Access Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Clean Slate Initiative Inc?

Find your warmest path to Clean Slate Initiative Inc 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 59 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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