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Fines and Fees Justice Center Inc
The fines and fees justice center, inc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEO PHILANTHROPY | $25,000 |
| MICHIGAN LEAGUE FOR PUBLIC POLICY | $20,000 |
| CANNABIS EQUITY COALITION | $20,000 |
| STREET DEMOCRACY | $20,000 |
| HUMANITY FOR PRISONERS | $20,000 |
| CHICAGO 400 ALLIANCE | $20,000 |
| LIVE FREE IL | $20,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
We are a group working to end Death by Incarceration also known as life without parole sentencing, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly…
Connecting and amplifying the power of individuals to build a just, equitable, and inclusive city.
Felony Murder Elimination Project is a grassroots organization of families and community members impacted by incarceration. Our goal is to eliminate the felony murder rule from California law and bring an end to extreme sentences,…
Enhancing the capacity of citizens to hold public institutions accountable through the practice of investigative journalism. The Organization adheres to the central principle that citizens have co-responsibility with the government for…
Our mission is to provide greater access to stable employment and housing for people whose past criminal records are holding them back. We provide free legal advice to determine whether a criminal record is eligible to be sealed or…
Building support for the rights of working people through coalitions of labor and community and through public education.
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.
Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…
Through litigation and community advocacy, fair fight initiative exposes mistreatment in the law enforcement system and works to end mass incarceration.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neo Philanthropy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Innocent. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 Fines and Fees Justice Center 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.
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.
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