How much did CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Crime & Legal$756kSocial Science$603kPhilanthropy$525kEducation$513kHuman Services$422kEnvironment$408kReligion$350kPublic Benefit$300kCommunity Improvement$284kOther$1.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

conservativedoors

2020

regrant partnerpartner cjrf

2021

regrant partnerpartner cjrf

2022

regrant partnerpartner cjrf

2023

regrant partnerpartner cjrf

2024

regrant partnerpartner cjrf

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 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

States reached

$60M

Total assets

Largest grants

WALLO267 FOUNDATION INC$500,000
UNITED JUSTICE COALITION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$100,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE$50,000
LALA LAND FOUNDATION$50,000
DC JUSTICE LAB$25,000
TEXAS POLICY FOUNDATION$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
ATHLETICS FOR EDUCATION AND SUCCESS INC$10,000
NOLEF TURNS INC$10,000
ILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR REENTRY AND JUSTICE$10,000
BOYS TO MEN MENTORING$10,000

02The need

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% — the area typically sits at 11%. 83% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 92% 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$3.2M · 37 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +133% since the first grant, against +59% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.2M

$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+133%

+59%

Still filing today

76%

82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $831k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth 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 FOUNDATION
3× · 2019–2021 · $603k · revenue +52%
AO
AMERICANS OF FAITH
2× · 2020–2021 · $350k · revenue +244% · 33% of their budget
TP
TEXAS POLICY FOUNDATION
2× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +137%

Funded once

TIDES FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue +23%
CU
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
one grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +13%
SJ
SAFE & JUST MICHIGAN
one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -55%

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.

Out for Justice Inc

Out for Justice Inc. OFJ is an organization comprised of individuals who are directly or indirectly impacted by the criminal justice system advocating for the reform of policies & practicesthat adversely affect successful reentry to…

Crime & Legal

Reentry Reimagined

Reeducation

Crime & Legal

Elevated Community Development Corporation

Training and jobs for exoffenders

Employment

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

Until We Are All Free Movement

Until We Are All Free is a human rights organization led by formerly incarcerated criminal justice experts. We focus on building capital, resources and support to provide pathways to civic and economic liberation for individuals…

Human Services

The Reentry Initiative

To provide comprehensive services inside and outside prison walls that empower adults tolive fulfilling and crime-free lives in their community, including resources for education,employment, housing and therapeutic services to support…

Crime & Legal

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

Scores Reentry

SCORES Reentry is an independent, privately supported, non-sectarian agency. The agency mission is to create opportunities for individuals impacted by the criminal justice system, poverty or substance abuse. The agency seeks to make…

Human Services

Root & Rebound

Root & rebound's mission is to restore power and resources to the families and communities most harmed by mass incarceration through legal advocacy, public education, policy reform and litigation model rooted in the needs and expertise of…

Crime & Legal

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

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

Justice and Accountability Center

The justice and accountability center of louisiana helps people recover from the criminal justice system.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rehabilitation Enables Dreams Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tides Foundation. 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.

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 field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/100

the rest of the field

11%

206,164/1,819,465

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.

06the grantee network

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

78/79

Grantees still filing

61/79

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,663,984Crime & Legal$756,250Social Science$602,500Philanthropy$525,000Education$512,500Human Services$421,750Environment$407,500

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

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 FoundationPA24.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Philadelphia Foundation · The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation · Philadelphia City Fund Inc · Bread and Roses Community Fund · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Poise Foundation · Dreamorg · Philanthropy Network Greater · Nfl Foundation Inc · The Barra Foundation Inc · The Philadelphia Poverty Action Fund · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 organisation 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: AMERICANS OF FAITH.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 5 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 200742507 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on AMERICANS OF FAITH, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Criminal Justice Reform Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Criminal Justice Reform Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Criminal Justice Reform Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

79 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Criminal Justice Reform Foundation?

More from the funding graph