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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.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
21
Grants FY2024
2
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$70,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$406,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 2
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
10
Total assets, FY2024
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Justice Catalyst Partnerships funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$1.3M95%
FY20232$130k100%
FY20221$100kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.5MCivil Rights$481kCrime & Legal$438kHealth$263kHuman Services$100kCommunity Improvement$45k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
MT
IL
NY
CA
MO
WV
KS
DC
LA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kaplan & Grady LLC$167,6721n/a
Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center$140,66011%
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc$140,00019%
Justice Catalyst Law Inc$100,00014%
Gernstein Harrow LLP$97,5002n/a
Community Education Group Inc$95,00016%
National Police Accountability Project Inc$70,00018%
Cuneo Gilbert & Laduca LLP$70,0001n/a
Pregnancy Justice Inc$70,00011%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc$70,00011%
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All grantees of Justice Catalyst Partnerships by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kaplan & Grady LLC$167,6721n/a
Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center$140,66011%
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc$140,00019%
Justice Catalyst Law Inc$100,00014%
Gernstein Harrow LLP$97,5002n/a
Community Education Group Inc$95,00016%
National Police Accountability Project Inc$70,00018%
Cuneo Gilbert & Laduca LLP$70,0001n/a
Pregnancy Justice Inc$70,00011%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc$70,00011%
New York Legal Assistance Group Inc$70,00010%
American Civil Liberties Union of Alaska Foundation$70,00016%
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP$65,0001n/a
National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc$52,50011%
Legal Aid at Work$52,50010%
Freedom Community Center$45,00013%
Urban Justice Center$35,00010%
Upper Seven Law$35,00013%
Latinojustice Prldef$35,00010%
Civil Rights Corps$35,00011%
Earthrights International Inc$35,00010%
Law Office William Most LLC$8,9501n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Justice Catalyst Partnerships supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRoderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center: $140,660 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSurveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc: $140,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetJustice Catalyst Law Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCommunity Education Group Inc: $95,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNational Police Accountability Project Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetPregnancy Justice Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLegal Action Center of the City of New York Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNew York Legal Assistance Group Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Civil Liberties Union of Alaska Foundation: $70,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetNational Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild Inc: $52,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLegal Aid at Work: $52,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFreedom Community Center: $45,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetUrban Justice Center: $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Seven Law: $35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetLatinojustice Prldef: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCivil Rights Corps: $35,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEarthrights International Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Catalyst Partnerships?

Find your warmest path to Justice Catalyst Partnerships 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 Catalyst Partnerships

How much does Justice Catalyst Partnerships give?
Justice Catalyst Partnerships reported 21 grants totaling $1,735,782 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does Justice Catalyst Partnerships fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (65%), Civil Rights (13%), Crime & Legal (12%).
Who are Justice Catalyst Partnerships's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Kaplan & Grady LLC ($168k), Roderick and Solange MacArthur Justice Center ($141k), Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc ($140k).
Does Justice Catalyst Partnerships fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Justice Catalyst Partnerships?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc, The Ford Foundation.
Where is Justice Catalyst Partnerships based?
Justice Catalyst Partnerships is based in VA.

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 23 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.

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