· Public charity
Justice Catalyst Partnerships
To promote valuable public interest legal work that seeks to improve the lives of those most often denied access to justice and to achieve systemic change within the legal system and profession.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $253k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $406k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH STAR FUND INC | $406,000 |
| KAPLAN & GRADY LLC | $167,672 |
| RODERICK AND SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER | $140,660 |
| SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT PROJECT INC | $140,000 |
| COMMUNITY EDUCATION GROUP INC | $95,000 |
| CUNEO GILBERT & LADUCA LLP | $70,000 |
| LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC | $70,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALASKA FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| NATIONAL ADVOCATES FOR PREGNANT WOMEN | $70,000 |
| NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP | $70,000 |
| THE NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT | $70,000 |
| NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAYWERS GUILD | $52,500 |
| LEGAL AID AT WORK | $52,500 |
| FREEDOM COMMUNITY CENTER | $45,000 |
| EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…
CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE CENTER (CLDC) educates the general public about their rights and privileges under the US Constitution and provides free legal support to climate and social justice activists.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…
Justice for the People Legal Centers mission shall include but not be limited to the provision of legal services, grassroots organizing, and education to people and communities who have historically endured harm and trauma caused by our…
The public justice center (pjc) pursues systemic change to build a just society. (see schedule o)the pjc uses legal advocacy tools to pursue social justice, economic and race equity, and fundamental human rights for people who are…
The Asian Law Caucus's mission is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist…
Towards justice is a nonprofit law firm that seeks to advance economic equity and worker power through impact litigation, strategic policy advocacy, and collaboration with organizers and public agencies. we were founded in response to the…
The federation for american immigration reform's (fair) mission is to educate the public about the economic, sociological, environmental, demographic and other effects of mass immigration to the united states.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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.
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.
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center ↗
- Who funds SURVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY EDUCATION GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PREGNANCY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Legal Aid at Work ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom Community Center ↗
- Who funds CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds LATINOJUSTICE PRLDEF ↗
- Who funds UPPER SEVEN LAW ↗
- Who funds EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · The Impact Fund · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Skadden 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 Justice Catalyst Partnerships 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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