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Common Justice Inc

Common justice develops and advances solutions to violent crime that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Community Improvement$600kCivil Rights$500kCrime & Legal$123kHuman Services$23kYouth Development$15k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER$100,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%QUEENS ROYAL PRIESTHOOD INC: $15k → 13%NOT ANOTHER CHILD: $15k → 20%BRONX WORKS INC: $8k → 28%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 3 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$1.1M
$121k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+91%

Still filing today

67%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FC
    Freedom Community Center
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +83%
  • HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $500k · revenue +6%
  • BW
    BE WISE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k

Funded once

  • BS
    BOTH SIDES OF THE VIOLENCE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $17k
  • NT
    NYC Together Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +144%
  • QR
    QUEENS ROYAL PRIEST HOOD INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -18%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Endangered Kind Inc

Endangered Kind mission is to reduce gun violence using a community-driven approach that fosters trust to reach, restore, and sustain quality of life for high-risk youth and young adults ages 15-27 in the City of Philadelphia.

Human Services
2
Urban Youth Ministry of Greater Indianapolis Inc

Youth

3
Bridging the Gap Hp Nfp

Bridging the Gap HP NFP aims to reduce violence through incident tracking, mediations, canvasing and program service delivery for high risk individuals. It is the goal of the organization to create a healthier and beloved community through…

Crime & Legal
4
Former Inmates for Change

Former Inmates for Change is a Nonprofit Org. that mentors young men and women, to assist in the reduction of violent crimes and reducing recidivism. Most of our speakers a former inmates (volunteers) and we partner with local schools,…

Crime & Legal
5
Youth Justice Network Inc

Youth Justice Network (YJN)s mission is to break cycles of incarceration and build an equitable justice system by providing young people with individualized advocacy, mentorship, and opportunities to grow, thrive, and lead. (SEE SCHEDULE O)

Human Services
6
Let Your Voice Be Heard
Civil Rights
7
Life After Next

We promote healing and growth of oneself and within our communities.We walk with our members all the way home.

Crime & Legal
8
Creative Community Connectors Inc

Creative Community Connectors is created and formed to address eliminate community violence in the City of Erie by building rapport in the community and bridging community relational efforts. The intention and vested effort is focused…

9
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
10
Western Avenue Community Action Inc

Provide resources, education and services to the underserved African-American youth population in Los Angeles.

Community Improvement
11
Street Corner Resources Inc

The mission of Street Corner Resources is to eliminate gun and gang violence and to create a more peaceful and productive community by providing teenagers, young adults and community members greater access to real employment, education,…

Human Services
12
30TH Precinct Community Council

Community resources in conjunction with nypd 30th precint

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rising Ground Inc and the most unlike its peers is Queens Royal Priest Hood 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Freedom Community Center — $600,000 · Community ImprovementFreedom Community Center+1 more — $17,000 · Community ImprovementHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $500,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INCQUEENS ROYAL PRIEST HOOD INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesNOT ANOTHER CHILD INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesRISING GROUND INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesBRONXWORKS INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesBE WISE INC — $39,824 · OtherTOGETHER WE CAN — $6,000 · OtherNYC Together Inc — $15,000 · Crime & LegalWHEELCHAIRS AGAINST GUNS INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalEAST FLATBUSH VILLAGE INC — $15,000 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$617,000Environment$500,000Human Services$53,000Other$45,824Crime & Legal$30,000Youth Development$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFreedom Community Center — $600,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetQUEENS ROYAL PRIEST HOOD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetEAST FLATBUSH VILLAGE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWHEELCHAIRS AGAINST GUNS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNOT ANOTHER CHILD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRISING GROUND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRONXWORKS INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of New York CityNY19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of New York City · 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 Common Justice Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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