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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
LALA LAND FOUNDATION$50,000
A NEW WAY OF LIFE$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
INTHRIVE FILM FESTIVAL$10,000
THE FORGE OF READING$10,000
SAPPHO & LAROYCE FOUNDATION$10,000
ENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY$10,000
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 (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 its 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%URBAN DREAMS: $25k → 10%PITTSBURGH CONSERVATION CORPS - DBA LANDFORCE: $10k → 11%BRO2GO: $25k → 12%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
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

IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CA
VA
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
MS
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 100% of Criminal Justice Reform Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 14% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 0%.

Criminal Justice Reform Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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%
-2%

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
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

  • 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

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

—
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
TURN90

Turn90 is a nonprofit employment social enterprise that combines job training, supportive services, and peer mentorship to create a pathway to success after prison.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rehabilitation Enables Dreams Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

82 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/82
Grantees still filing
42/82
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetUNITED JUSTICE COALITION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRESTOREHER USAMERICA INC: $135,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LADIES OF HOPE MINISTRIES INC: $135,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetA NEW WAY OF LIFE REENTRY PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNewark Community Street Team Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN: $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $75,659 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBRO2GO LLC: $60,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetARDELLA'S HOUSE INC: $55,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTOMORROWS NEIGHBORS: $55,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetTime For Change Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAMIRACLE4SURE INC: $50,000 over 3y, 2.4% 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 budgetCREATIVE VISIONS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetPROMISE NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE LEHIGH VALLEY: $35,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREHABILITATION ENABLES DREAMS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 4.0% 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 budgetBLACK MEN HEAL: $30,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetENTREPRENEURS ACADEMY: $30,000 over 2y, 3.3% 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 budgetPHILADELPHIA FIGHT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PITTSBURGH CONTINGENCY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSoul Food Community Development Corporation Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetURBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER PHILADELPHIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDC JUSTICE LAB: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED CHARITABLE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA TRI-COUNTY AREA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetTHE FORGE INITIATIVE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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

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 Criminal Justice Reform Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Criminal Justice Reform Foundation. 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 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
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.

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

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