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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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2019–2024.

Crime & Legal$1.2MPublic Benefit$1.1MCivil Rights$613kArts & Culture$570kPhilanthropy$560kEducation$465kCommunity Improvement$454kHuman Services$367kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $507k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WALLO267 FOUNDATION INC$500,000
UNITED JUSTICE COALITION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE$50,000
LALA LAND FOUNDATION$50,000
TEXAS POLICY FOUNDATION$25,000
DC JUSTICE LAB$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA$16,250
ABOVE ALL ODDS$15,000
MUMINEEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$13,125
YOUTH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY$12,500
RECA FOUNDATION INC$10,075
BRIDGE TO FREEDOM$10,000
THE MASTERMIND COOPERATIVE$10,000
SECOND CHANCER FOUNDATION$10,000
GIVING OTHERS DREAMS GOD INC$10,000
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 (FY21–24, $422k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $25k → 7%AMIRACLE4SURE: $25k → 12%RE-ENTRY ONE: $9k → 15%MUMINEEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $13k → 16%REALITY SPEAKING: $10k → 7%THE FORGE OF READING: $10k → 11%AMIRACLE4SURE: $15k → 12%MUMINEEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $9k → 16%GIVING OTHERS DREAMS GOD INC: $10k → 14%AMIRACLE4SURE: $10k → 12%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $50k → 17%PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS - DBA LANDFORCE: $10k → 11%BRO2GO: $25k → 12%URBAN DREAMS: $25k → 10%BRO2GO: $25k → 12%URBAN DREAMS: $10k → 10%BRO2GO: $10k → 12%LALA LAND FOUNDATION: $50k → 17%THE EDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES: $15k → 22%A WEALTH OF WOMEN: $10k → 22%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $30k → 22%ARDELLAS HOUSE: $25k → 22%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.

Which US states your grants reach

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
GA
TX
FL

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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 100% of Criminal Justice Reform Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Criminal Justice Reform Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.3M · 39 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
33

Total granted

$3.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
-5%

Still filing today

79%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $804k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth 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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $603k · revenue +17%
  • D
    DREAMORG
    3× · 2019–2021 · $400k · revenue +8%
  • AO
    AMERICANS OF FAITH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $350k · revenue +244% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +70%
  • SC
    SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -53%
  • SJ
    SAFE & JUST MICHIGAN
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -63%

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
Judge Alexander Williams Jr Center for Education Justice & Eth
Crime & Legal
2
Recovery Career Services

Recovery Career Services exists to support individuals in recovery from substance use and those impacted by the criminal justice system in obtaining and maintaining employment. The organization provides career coaching, job readiness…

Human Services
3
Leveled Up Re-Entry

To promote collaborative services to our participants returning to free society through accountibility and accessibilty, while developing strategies in their individual lives to "strive and thrive" by offering a "net" that "works" of…

Crime & Legal
4
Elevated Community Development Corporation

Training and jobs for exoffenders

Employment
5
The Osborne Association Inc

The association's purpose is to provide services to defendants, incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people and their families: to provide alternatives to incarceration; to provide job training and job placement; to provide reentry…

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6
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
7
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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8
Ex-Cons for Community and Social Change

Violence De-escalation, criminal justice reform, re-entry service, behavior modification, socio-emotional learning and mentorship programming

Human Services
9
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
10
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc

We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.

Employment
11
The Revive Center for Returning Citizens

To empower those impacted by the criminal justice system, advance multi-dimentional solutions to the effects of incarceration, and achieve racial justice.

Crime & Legal
12
Reimagine Reentry Inc

Reimagine reentry aims to reduce recidivism in allegheny county by providing opportunities, reducing barriers, and supporting returning citizens in a holistic way. our work relies heavily on a strengths based approach for those formerly…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rehabilitation Enables Dreams Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mumineen Community Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Sports ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Community College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%13%<5yr14%32%5–10yr19%25%10–20yr16%11%20–35yr13%15%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%20%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%35%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/99
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,466

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

82 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 82 of the 101 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
40/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WALLO267 FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · OtherWALLO267 FOUNDATION INCAMERICANS OF FAITH — $350,000 · OtherAMERICANS OF FAITHTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $200,000 · OtherTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATIONSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN — $100,000 · OtherTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $135,000 · OtherA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $100,000 · OtherRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC — $135,000 · Other+48 more — $1,133,984 · Other+48 moreUNITED JUSTICE COALITION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $200,000 · Crime & LegalUNITED JUSTICE…Newark Community Street Team Inc — $100,000 · Crime & LegalNewark Communi…COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY RESO…GEORGIA JUSTICE PROJECT INC — $75,000 · Crime & LegalGEORGIA JUSTIC…TOMORROWS NEIGHBORS — $55,000 · Crime & LegalTOMORROWS NEIG…Televerde Foundation — $30,000 · Crime & LegalSEAL Inc — $30,000 · Crime & LegalSafer Foundation — $28,750 · Crime & LegalPENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY — $27,500 · Crime & Legal+8 more — $110,000 · Crime & Legal+8 moreAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC — $602,500 · Social ScienceAMERICAN CO…TIDES FOUNDATION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUN…UNITED CHARITABLE — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $250,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $100,000 · EducationSHAWN CART…ATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC — $35,000 · EducationATHLETICS …YOUTH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY - YEDA — $32,500 · EducationYOUTH EDUC…ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY — $30,000 · EducationENTREPRENE…THE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC — $25,000 · EducationTHE FORGE INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 · Education+2 more — $30,000 · Education+2 moreBRO2GO LLC — $60,000 · Human ServicesARDELLA'S HOUSE INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesAMIRACLE4SURE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesLA LA LAND FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesURBAN DREAMS — $35,000 · Human ServicesYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA — $25,000 · Human ServicesMumineen Community Development Corporation — $22,500 · Human ServicesEDUCATION CULTURE OPPORTUNITIES FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human Services+6 more — $59,250 · Human ServicesDREAMORG — $400,000 · Environment+1 more — $7,500 · Environment
Other$2,653,984Crime & Legal$756,250Social Science$602,500Philanthropy$525,000Education$522,500Human Services$421,750Environment$407,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC — $602,500 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDREAMORG — $400,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICANS OF FAITH — $350,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetUNITED JUSTICE COALITION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC — $135,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC — $135,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetNewark Community Street Team Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN — $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS — $75,659 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBRO2GO LLC — $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetTOMORROWS NEIGHBORS — $55,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetARDELLA'S HOUSE INC — $55,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetAMIRACLE4SURE INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTime For Change Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLA LA LAND FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPEOPLES OAKLAND INC — $45,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL IOWA — $35,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetREHABILITATION ENABLES DREAMS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetPROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY — $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetURBAN DREAMS — $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT ACADEMY - YEDA — $32,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetTeleverde Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY — $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBLACK MEN HEAL — $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSafer Foundation — $28,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY — $27,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION — $27,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPHILADELPHIA FIGHT — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSoul Food Community Development Corporation Inc — $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDC JUSTICE LAB — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMumineen Community Development Corporation — $22,500 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetACCLIVUS INC — $22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY COUNTY REENTRY COALITION — $20,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetTeamwork Englewood Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FORGE INITIATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% 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.

The Philadelphia Foun…Philadelphia City Fun…The Alfred and Mary D…Philanthropy Network …United Way of Greater…Bread and Roses Commu…The Barra Foundation …Poise FoundationNfl Foundation IncThe Philadelphia Pove…DreamorgBvm Capacity Building…
The Philadelphia FoundationPA25.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Criminal Justice Reform Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Newark Community Street Team Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
25report 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

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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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