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· Public charity
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE
To protect the constitutional rights of americans.
$104k
Granted FY2025
6
Grants
3
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Education$1.3MPublic Benefit$127kCivil Rights$120kOther$136k
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
2020
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2021
computer equipmentequipment internetinternet studentsstudents participatingparticipating c'sc's scholarship
2022
cash prizeprize givengiven placesouth sideside pitchpitch finalist
2023
studentcash prizeprize givengiven placeplace southsouth sideside pitch
2024
cash prizeprize givengiven placeplace southsouth sideside pitchpitch finalist
2025
cash prizeprize givengiven placeplace southsouth sideside pitchpitch finalist
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $64k
$14,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$178M
Total assets
Largest grants
- American legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)$20,000
- State Policy Network$20,000
- InHeirit$14,000
- 7323 Chicago Caf$10,000
- National Conference of State legislature$7,500
- Daniel's Test Kitchen$6,000
02The need
04
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:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of your 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.
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.
15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$264k · 3 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
15
Total granted
$264k
$1.4M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+37%
+3%
Still filing today
100%
33%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EducationPublic BenefitCivil RightsOther
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
- ALAmerican legislative Exchange Council6× · 2020–2025 · $127k · revenue +37%
- SPState Policy Network6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +90%
- TFTHE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY2× · 2023–2024 · $17k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- EIEDCHOICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1.3M · revenue +43%
- SOSERVING OUR CHILDREN INCone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -17%
- RCR CITY KITCHEN GROUPone grant, 2024 · $13k
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.
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Washington School Principals Education
Support k-12 education for pupils and professional development to principals in wa state.
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2
The Seed Public Charter School of
The seed public charter school of washington, dc is a public college-preparatory boarding school whose primary mission is to provide an outstanding intensive educational program that prepares children, both academically and socially, for…
Education
3
Dc Preparatory Academy
Dc prep is a network of public charter schools serving pk3-8th grade students in washington, dc.
Education
4
Washington Federation of Independent
Strengthening education as the advocate and voice of private schools.
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5
Center City Public Charter Schools
Center city public charter schools (center city pcs) empowers our students for lifelong success by building strong character, promoting academic excellence, and generating public service throughout washington, d.c.
Education
6
Capitol Hill Day School
Capitol Hill Day School is a co-educational independent school serving students from pre-kindergarten through 8th grade. Capitol Hill Day School deeply engages a diverse community of students in connecting the classroom with the larger…
Education
7
Council for Court Excellence
Bring people together to research, educate, & advocate for a fair, equitable dc legal system.
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8
Dc Policy Center
The d.c. policy center is a non-partisan, independent think tank focused on advancing policies for a vibrant and growing economy in the district of columbia. the d.c. policy center provides objective, targeted, and high-quality data…
Public Benefit
9
Washington Episcopal Day School Inc
Washington Episcopal School inspires academic and personal excellence within a joyful learning environment to develop students who are kind, confident, and prepared.
Education
10
American Law Institute
The institute's mission, as set out in its certificate of incorporation, is to promote the clarification and simplification of the law and its better adaptation to social needs, to secure the better administration of justice, and to…
Crime & Legal
11
Harvard Club of Washington Dc
To inform & enrich the intellectual lives of the 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the dc area & to assist the university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Education
12
Educare Dc
To eliminate the opportunity gap with high-quality early learning for children prenatal to age 5.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Federalist Society for Law and and the most unlike its peers is University of Wisconsin Foundation. 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
8 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$1,334,923Other$135,699Public Benefit$127,000Civil Rights$120,000
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.
- Who funds EDCHOICE INC ↗
- Who funds American legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) ↗
- Who funds State Policy Network ↗
- Who funds SERVING OUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY FOR LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA ↗
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.
National Philanthropic TrustPA6.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · 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 organisation INSTITUTE FOR 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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: EDCHOICE INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
high risk
~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 351978359 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 EDCHOICE INC, 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 11% 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 Institute for Justice?
Find your warmest path to Institute for Justice 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.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines