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Justice Action Network Foundation

The mission of the Corporation is to maximize the effective and fair use of limited public resources in the criminal justice system.

$70k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2024
17
Organizations funded FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.5M
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$980kCivil Rights$50kReligion$50k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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OH
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CA
UT
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VA
KS
DC
LA
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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Justice Action Network Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Due Process Institute$150,000126%
Prison Fellowship Ministries$100,00010%
Human Rights for Kids$100,000114%
R Street Institute$75,00020%
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation$75,00012%
Libertas Network$55,00020%
Pelican Institute for Public Policy$50,00012%
The Archer Group$50,00013%
Dreamorg$50,00011%
National District Attorneys Association$50,00011%
Americans of Faith$50,00017%
Tholos Foundation$50,00021%
The Buckeye Institute$50,00011%
Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc$50,00016%
Community Legal Services Inc$50,00010%
Center for American Progress$50,00010%
Youth Rights & Justice$25,00010%

Where it is load-bearing

Justice Action Network Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDue Process Institute: $150,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPrison Fellowship Ministries: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHuman Rights for Kids: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetR Street Institute: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFamilies Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetLibertas Network: $55,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPelican Institute for Public Policy: $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Archer Group: $50,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetDreamorg: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational District Attorneys Association: $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmericans of Faith: $50,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetTholos Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Buckeye Institute: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetKansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetCommunity Legal Services Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for American Progress: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Rights & Justice: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.

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.

Coalition for Public SafetyDC30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Coalition for Public Safety · Justice Action Network · Donors Trust Inc · New Venture Fund · Charles Koch Institute · Charles Koch Foundation · The Pew Charitable Trusts · Clean Slate Initiative Inc · Atlas Economic Research Foundation · The Seminar Network Inc · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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How do I get to Justice Action Network Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Justice Action Network Foundation 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.

About Justice Action Network Foundation

How much does Justice Action Network Foundation give?
Justice Action Network Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $70,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does Justice Action Network Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (91%), Civil Rights (5%), Religion (5%).
Who are Justice Action Network Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2023 to FY2024: Due Process Institute ($150k), Prison Fellowship Ministries ($100k), Human Rights for Kids ($100k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Justice Action Network Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Coalition for Public Safety, Justice Action Network, Donors Trust Inc.
Where is Justice Action Network Foundation based?
Justice Action Network Foundation is based in DC.

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 17 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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