New York · Public charity
Criminal Justice Reform Foundation
The mission of the reform alliance is to dramatically reduce the number of people who are unjustly under the control of the criminal justice system starting with probation and parole. To win, we will leverage our considerable resources to change laws, policies, hearts and minds.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 55
- Grants FY2024
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 69%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 39
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $60M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 69% of the organizations Criminal Justice Reform Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 62% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 55 | $1.2M | 47% |
| FY2023 | 39 | $980k | 69% |
| FY2022 | 33 | $771k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $870k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $1.1M | 78% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $150k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Conservative Union Foundationinc | $602,500 | 3 | 9% |
| Wallo267 Foundation Inc | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dreamorg | $400,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Americans of Faith | $350,000 | 2 | 33% |
| United Justice Coalition Charitable Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Texas Public Policy Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Restoreher Usamerica Inc | $135,000 | 4 | 3% |
| The Ladies of Hope Ministries Inc | $135,000 | 2 | 4% |
| A New Way of Life Reentry Project | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 96 grantees
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Criminal Justice Reform Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 72 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation · Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Bread and Roses Community Fund · The Barra Foundation Inc · Poise Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund · Dreamorg · Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc
How this is measured
Compare Criminal Justice Reform Foundation with peer funders
About Criminal Justice Reform Foundation
- How much does Criminal Justice Reform Foundation give?
- Criminal Justice Reform Foundation reported 55 grants totaling $1,253,870 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 39 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Criminal Justice Reform Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (20%), Public Benefit (19%), Civil Rights (10%).
- Who are Criminal Justice Reform Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: American Conservative Union Foundationinc ($603k), Wallo267 Foundation Inc ($500k), Dreamorg ($400k).
- Does Criminal Justice Reform Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 69% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Criminal Justice Reform Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Philadelphia Foundation, Philadelphia City Fund Inc, The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation.
- Where is Criminal Justice Reform Foundation based?
- Criminal Justice Reform Foundation is based in NY.
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