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Foundation for the Improvement of Justice

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$90k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Crime & Legal$385kPhilanthropy$15kEducation$10kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$10kCivil Rights$10kPublic Benefit$10kYouth Development$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Kidz2Leaders$15,000
For the People$15,000
Sherry Black Foundation$15,000
Good Call NYC$15,000
Individual grant recipient$15,000
Last Prisoner Project$15,000
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 (FY17–23, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Crime Victims United Charitable Found: $10k → 6%Ayuda: $10k → 14%Florida Justice Technology Center: $10k → 19%Hope for Justice: $10k → 14%The First 72: $10k → 23%Elizabeth Smart Foundation: $10k → 8%Disability Rights Washington: $10k → 9%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

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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.

03Your 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.

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Justice Unlocked

Justice Unlocked bridges the gap between those within the community who cannot afford an attorney, but don't qualify for legal assistance.

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2
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
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Justice Reform Foundation
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4
Fair Fight Initiative Inc

Through litigation and community advocacy, fair fight initiative exposes mistreatment in the law enforcement system and works to end mass incarceration.

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5
The Promise of Justice Initiative

The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.

Crime & Legal
6
Stopdv

Special team on the prevention of domestic violence

Crime & Legal
7
Nacdl Foundation for Criminal Justice

To preserve and promote the core values of america's justice system guaranteed by the constitution - among them due process, freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, fair sentencing and assistance of effective counsel - by educating…

Crime & Legal
8
Fund for Justice

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…

Crime & Legal
9
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
10
The Justice Reform

The justice reform is answering the cry for justice by bringing reformation from city to city. we seek to be a voice for the voiceless, bring hope to the hopeless, and bring light into the darkness.

Arts & Culture
11
Sexual Violence Law Center

Sexual Violence Law Center (SVLC) is a nonprofit law firm that protects the safety, privacy, and civil rights of survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Washington through holistic and trauma-informed practices rooted in race and…

Human Services
12
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is KIDZ2LEADERS Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sherry Black Foundation Fka Sherry Black Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%24%5–10yr19%29%10–20yr16%33%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%5%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%30%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr16%32%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
4%
1/23
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,542

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 44 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
11/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherEnd Violence Against Women — $10,000 · OtherOhio Crime Victim Justice Center — $10,000 · OtherSTARTING RIGHT NOW — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherSuffolk U Law Sch Legal Innovation & Tech Lab — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherFamily & Feiends of Wrongfully Convicted — $10,000 · OtherCayley's Calling — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherBerkeley Law Policy Advocacy Clinic — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherTuscon Family Advocacy Program — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherParabon NanoLabs Inc — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $10,000 · OtherFOR THE PEOPLE — $15,000 · Crime & LegalFOR THE PEOPLELAST PRISONER PROJECT — $15,000 · Crime & LegalLAST PRISONER PROJECTSHERRY BLACK FOUNDATION FKA SHERRY BLACK EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Crime & LegalSHERRY BLACK FOUNDATI…Good Call NYC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalGood Call NYCCourthouse Dogs Foundation — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCourthouse Dogs Found…TZEDEK DC INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalTZEDEK DC INCFLORIDA JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalFLORIDA JUSTICE INSTI…CRIME VICTIMS UNITED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Human ServicesCRIME VICTIMS UNITE…AYUDA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesAYUDA INCHope for Justice Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesHope for Justice In…THE PATH Childrens Advocacy Center Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE PATH Childrens …The First 72 — $10,000 · Human ServicesThe First 72DISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON — $10,000 · Human ServicesDISABILITY RIGHTS W…Florida Justice Technology Center Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesFlorida Justice Tec…Elizabeth Smart Foundation — $10,000 · Human ServicesElizabeth Smart Fou…BARD COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $10,000 · EducationKIDZ2LEADERS INC — $15,000 · ReligionTHE MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Public BenefitNEW JERSEY CRIME VICTIM LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAlaska Native Justice Center — $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$235,000Crime & Legal$90,000Human Services$80,000Education$20,000Religion$15,000Public Benefit$10,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Civil Rights$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOR THE PEOPLE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLAST PRISONER PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSHERRY BLACK FOUNDATION FKA SHERRY BLACK EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGood Call NYC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetKIDZ2LEADERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCourthouse Dogs Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetTZEDEK DC INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSTARTING RIGHT NOW — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRIME VICTIMS UNITED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTHE MILESTONE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW JERSEY CRIME VICTIM LAW CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetAYUDA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope for Justice Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA JUSTICE INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Maryland Medical System Foundation Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PATH Childrens Advocacy Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe First 72 — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDISABILITY RIGHTS WASHINGTON — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlaska Native Justice Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida Justice Technology Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetElizabeth Smart Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% 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.

Shell USA Company Fou…Morgan Stanley Global…Paypal Charitable Giv…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Shell USA Company FoundationTX10.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Shell USA Company Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Foundation for the Improvement of Justice 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    7report 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.

    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Foundation for the Improvement of Justice?

    Find your warmest path to Foundation for the Improvement of Justice through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 44 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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