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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
8
States reached
$700k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2022 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $775k
  • $250k+1 grant · $700k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Justice Action Network Foundation$700,000
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation$150,000
Prison Fellowship Ministries$150,000
Human Rights for Kids$75,000
Pelican Institute for Public Policy$50,000
Americans of Faith$50,000
Dream Corps$50,000
Community Legal Services Inc$50,000
The Buckeye Institute for Public Policy Solutions$50,000
Due Process Institute$50,000
National District Attorneys Association$50,000
Clause 40 Foundation$50,000
Pegasus Institute Inc$25,000
Americans for Tax Reform Foundation$25,000
R Street Institute$25,000
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 (FY18–22, $828k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Life Learning Center Inc: $50k → 11%Life Learning Center Inc: $13k → 11%Louisville Urban League: $13k → 15%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $285k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $150k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $100k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $78k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $70k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $50k → 14%Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $20k → 14%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

WI
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
RI
CA
UT
KY
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 26 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +71% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2022, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
27

Total granted

$6.6M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+12%

Still filing today

96%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Crime & LegalPublic BenefitCivil RightsHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementReligionOther
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

  • PF
    PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES
    5× · 2018–2022 · $750k · revenue +51%
  • AO
    AMERICANS OF FAITH
    5× · 2017–2022 · $360k · revenue +244%
  • TF
    Tholos Foundation
    5× · 2017–2022 · $355k · revenue +118%

Funded once

  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +271%
  • DP
    DRUG POLICY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -23%
  • KA
    Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -11%
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
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
2
Prison Policy Initiative

The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.

Civil Rights
3
Abolitionist Law Center

Legal services & public interest law.

Crime & Legal
4
American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

The american enterprise institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity, and strengthening free enterprise. aei pursues these ideals through independent thinking and the…

Social Science
5
Center for Effective Public Policy Inc

Cepp works collaboratively to improve systems of justice and advance community well-being by sharing expertise, promoting research-informed and emerging practices, and facilitating change.

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6
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights
7
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
8
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
9
Competitive Enterprise Institute

Competitive enterprise institute (cei) is a non-profit public policy organization dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government. we believe that consumers are best helped not by government regulation but by being…

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10
The Promise of Justice Initiative

The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.

Crime & Legal
11
Justice Policy Institute

The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.

Crime & Legal
12
National Police Accountability Project Inc

To promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution or laws of the United States.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Texas Public Policy Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hope House Ministries 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

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 56 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)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INC: $875,000 · OtherFREEDOMWORKS FOUNDATION INCTholos Foundation: $355,000 · OtherTholos FoundationThe Buckeye Institute: $350,000 · OtherThe Buckeye InstitutePegasus Institute Inc: $190,000 · OtherPegasus Institute IncHUMAN RIGHTS FOR KIDS: $300,000 · OtherHUMAN RIGHTS FOR KIDSAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC: $250,000 · OtherAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIO…ASSOCIATION OF PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS INC: $100,000 · OtherDRUG POLICY ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Other+12 more: $331,000 · Other+12 morePRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES: $750,000 · Crime & LegalPRISON FELLOWSHIP MIN…GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC: $130,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA JUSTICE PROJE…CLAUSE 40 FOUNDATION: $105,000 · Crime & LegalCLAUSE 40 FOUNDATIONKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $100,000 · Crime & LegalKansas Appleseed Cent…PARTNERSHIP FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $100,000 · Crime & LegalPARTNERSHIP FOR SAFET…NACDL FOUNDATION FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE: $100,000 · Crime & LegalNACDL FOUNDATION FOR …DUE PROCESS INSTITUTE: $100,000 · Crime & LegalDUE PROCESS INSTITUTEFLORIDA CARES CHARITY CORP: $100,000 · Crime & LegalFLORIDA CARES CHARITY…+7 more: $140,000 · Crime & Legal+7 moreJustice Action Network Foundation: $700,000 · Civil RightsJustice Action Ne…CENTER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESS: $500,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR AMERIC…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $100,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $200,000 · Public BenefitTHE LEADERSH…PELICAN INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $185,000 · Public BenefitPELICAN INST…Libertas Network: $151,500 · Public BenefitLibertas Net…TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · Public BenefitTEXAS PUBLIC…Rhode Island Center for Freedom and Prosperity: $71,000 · Public BenefitRhode Island…BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE: $62,500 · Public BenefitBEACON CENTE…BADGER INSTITUTE INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitHENRY CLAY CENTER FOR STATESMANSHIP: $42,500 · Public BenefitRio Grande Foundation Inc: $35,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $25,000 · Public BenefitFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION: $752,655 · Human ServicesFAMILIES AGA…OPERATION RESTORATION: $100,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RE…Life Learning Center Inc: $62,500 · Human ServicesLife Learnin…+1 more: $12,500 · Human ServicesDREAMORG: $520,000 · EnvironmentAMERICANS OF FAITH: $360,000 · ReligionHope House Ministries Inc: $100,000 · Religion
Other$2,851,000Crime & Legal$1,625,000Civil Rights$1,350,000Public Benefit$972,500Human Services$927,655Environment$520,000Religion$460,000

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 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
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.

Justice Action NetworkJustice Action Networ…Charles Koch Foundati…Charles Koch InstituteDonors Trust IncState Policy NetworkThe Seminar Network I…The Roe FoundationAtlas Economic Resear…The Just Trust for Ed…The Lynde and Harry B…New Venture Fund
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Coalition for Public Safety funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Coalition for Public Safety. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association: 6% of income from government
  • Florida Cares Charity Corp: 0% of income from government
  • The Aleph Institute Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report 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.
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How do I get to Coalition for Public Safety?

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.

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 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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