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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2022
17
Grants FY2022
17
Organizations funded FY2022
18%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$50,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$700,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 25
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
8

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 18% of the organizations Coalition for Public Safety funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $775k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Crime & LegalPublic BenefitHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202217$1.6M18%
FY202115$915k27%
FY202025$2.0M52%
FY201923$1.3M43%
FY201822$2.3M59%
FY201713$607kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Crime & Legal$6.7MCivil Rights$799kPublic Benefit$719kHealth$125kReligion$100kEmployment$63kSocial Science$58kInternational$50kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Coalition for Public Safety by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Freedomworks Foundation Inc$875,00048%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation$752,65556%
Prison Fellowship Ministries$750,00050%
Justice Action Network Foundation$700,0001100%
Dreamorg$520,00055%
Center for American Progress$500,00040%
Americans of Faith$360,00058%
Tholos Foundation$355,00059%
The Buckeye Institute$350,00054%
Human Rights for Kids$300,000450%
American Conservative Union Foundationinc$250,0002n/a
The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc$200,00030%
Pegasus Institute Inc$190,0004n/a
Pelican Institute for Public Policy$185,00054%
Libertas Network$151,50030%
Texas Public Policy Foundation$150,00030%
Georgia Justice Project Inc$130,0002n/a
Clause 40 Foundation$105,000357%
Association of Prosecuting Attorneys Inc$100,000111%
Drug Policy Alliance$100,00011%
Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$100,000112%
Partnership for Safety and Justice$100,00016%
Hope House Ministries Inc$100,000112%
NAACP Empowerment Programs Inc$100,00020%
Operation Restoration$100,00012%
Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice$100,00013%
Due Process Institute$100,000214%
Florida Cares Charity Corp$100,000144%
The John Locke Foundation Inc$78,50021%
National District Attorneys Association$75,00021%
Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity$71,0001n/a
Beacon Center of Tennessee$62,50022%
Life Learning Center Inc$62,50014%
Community Legal Services Inc$50,00010%
Badger Institute Inc$50,00014%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$50,00010%
Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship$42,5002n/a
Rio Grande Foundation Inc$35,000117%
Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association$35,00013%
Texas Center for Justice and Equity$25,00011%
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth Inc$25,00013%
Arizona Free Enterprise Club$25,00012%
Hoops 4 Heroes$25,0001n/a
R Street Institute$25,00010%
We Got US Now Inc$20,00015%
Northern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center Inc$20,00021%
Justice Action Network$19,00010%
The Hope Center Inc$17,50020%
The Louisville Urban League Inc$12,50010%
Kentucky Jailers Association$10,00014%
Girls Embracing Mothers Inc$10,00012%
Truth Be Told$10,00014%
The Aleph Institute Inc$10,00010%
Casa of the Heartland$6,00022%
The Marshall Project Inc$5,00010%
Greater Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce$5,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Coalition for Public Safety supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreedomworks Foundation Inc: $875,000 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetFamilies Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $752,655 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetPrison Fellowship Ministries: $750,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJustice Action Network Foundation: $700,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetDreamorg: $520,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $500,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmericans of Faith: $360,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetTholos Foundation: $355,000 over 5y, 8.9% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $350,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetHuman Rights for Kids: $300,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetThe Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPelican Institute for Public Policy: $185,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetLibertas Network: $151,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTexas Public Policy Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetClause 40 Foundation: $105,000 over 3y, 57% of budgetAssociation of Prosecuting Attorneys Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDrug Policy Alliance: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetPartnership for Safety and Justice: $100,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetHope House Ministries Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNAACP Empowerment Programs Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Restoration: $100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice: $100,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetDue Process Institute: $100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetFlorida Cares Charity Corp: $100,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetThe John Locke Foundation Inc: $78,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNational District Attorneys Association: $75,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBeacon Center of Tennessee: $62,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetLife Learning Center Inc: $62,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCommunity Legal Services Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBadger Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRio Grande Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetOregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association: $35,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTexas Center for Justice and Equity: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetArizona Free Enterprise Club: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetR Street Institute: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWe Got US Now Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNorthern Kentucky Children's Advocacy Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJustice Action Network: $19,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Hope Center Inc: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Louisville Urban League Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKentucky Jailers Association: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetGirls Embracing Mothers Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTruth Be Told: $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetThe Aleph Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCasa of the Heartland: $6,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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.

Justice Action NetworkDC34.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Justice Action Network · Justice Action Network Foundation · Charles Koch Foundation · Charles Koch Institute · Donors Trust Inc · State Policy Network · The Seminar Network Inc · The Roe Foundation · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · The Just Trust for Education · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · New Venture 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.

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Find your warmest path to Coalition for Public Safety through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Coalition for Public Safety

How much does Coalition for Public Safety give?
Coalition for Public Safety reported 17 grants totaling $1,580,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Coalition for Public Safety fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (77%), Civil Rights (9%), Public Benefit (8%).
Who are Coalition for Public Safety's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Freedomworks Foundation Inc ($875k), Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation ($753k), Prison Fellowship Ministries ($750k).
Does Coalition for Public Safety fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Coalition for Public Safety?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Justice Action Network, Justice Action Network Foundation, Charles Koch Foundation.
Where is Coalition for Public Safety based?
Coalition for Public Safety is based in DC.

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 56 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports $2k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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