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Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

$5.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
87
Grants FY2025still arriving
29
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$5.1MScience & Tech$3.3MCommunity Improvement$2.5MHuman Services$1.4MPhilanthropy$755kEducation$755kHealth$474kCivil Rights$432kOther$0
02FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 87 grants below total $5,622,124, the rows itemized in this filing. The $5,791,915 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $169,791 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k29 grants · $255k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $622k
  • $50k–250k22 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+5 grants · $2.4M
$16,198
Median grant
29
States reached
$80M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF CUNY$1,120,219
NPC RESEARCH$371,455
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY$304,671
TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$302,853
JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC$276,756
GWEN WRIGHT DBA CHANGE MATTERS$224,667
THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION$218,750
WHY NOT PROSPER INC$216,936
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM$156,200
FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC$142,044
STATE OF OREGON JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT$127,277
COOK COUNTY STATES ATTORNEYS OFFICE$117,932
MDRC$113,956
CHOICE OF NEW ROCHELLE INC DBA CHOICE OF NY$113,065
FRIENDS OF RECOVERY OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTIES INC$109,535
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $714k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VICTIM SERVICES CENTER: $8k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $41k → 10%FRIENDS OF RECOVERY OF DELAWARE AND OTSEGO COUNTIES INC: $110k → 13%VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: $10k → 13%INSIDE CIRCLE: $85k → 14%TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $86k → 23%TIDES CENTER: $22k → 10%KLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS: $9k → 11%TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $15k → 23%SOUTHEAST MISSOURI NETWORK AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE: $9k → 8%CHOICE OF NEW ROCHELLE INC DBA CHOICE OF NY: $113k → 9%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $75k → 13%GROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECT: $18k → 20%CHOICE OF NEW ROCHELLE INC DBA CHOICE OF NY: $37k → 9%JACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $30k → 13%IAMLEGACY: $35k → 20%SAFE HARBOR INC: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NJ
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CA
CO
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VA
MD
AZ
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DC
OK
LA
AL
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Justice Innovation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Justice Innovation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.4M · 34 repeat orgs$5.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
22

Total granted

$9.4M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-1%

Still filing today

68%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
HealthCrime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TO
    THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $685k · revenue +12%
  • EI
    EAC INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $582k · revenue +9%
  • LS
    LEGAL SERVICES NYC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $375k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.7M · revenue +38%
  • BT
    Brownsville Think Tank Matters Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $596k · revenue +18% · 25% of their budget
  • EL
    ELITE LEARNERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $315k · revenue -7%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
2
New York City Alliance Against Sexual Assault Inc

The alliance leads new york citys mission to end sexual violence through education, prevention programming, research, and policy change. until we end sexual violence in all forms, we will be here for all survivors and the organizations…

Human Services
3
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc

The legal action center (lac) uses legal policy strategies to fight discrimination, build health equity, and restore opportunity for people with arrest and conviction records, substance use disorders, and hiv or aids.

Crime & Legal
4
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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5
The District of Columbia Children's Advocacy Center

Safe shores provides survivor-centered intervention, hope and healing for children and families affected by abuse, trauma and violence in the district of columbia, and works to prevent and end child abuse and neglect through promising…

Crime & Legal
6
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…

Human Services
7
New York City Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project

The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…

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8
Therapeutic Works Incorporated

Therapeutic works incorporated (twi) provides clinical support services that are delivered directly in correctional facilities for pre-trial clients, those incarcerated for aprole violations, or other detained individuals, as well as for…

Human Services
9
The Family Center Inc

Provide social, legal & behavioral health services to individuals and families affected by life-altering events.

Human Services
10
Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
11
Avenues for Justice Inc

Avenues for justice operates a progressive diversion program for nyc court-involved and at-risk youth, ages 13 to 24, through adapted hybrid online and onsite programming, and 24/7 mentorship with community-based court advocates, the…

Crime & Legal
12
The Center for Family Justice Inc

To break the cycle of abuse and violence - domestic, sexual and child by providing services that create hope, restore lives and drive social change through education and community collaboration

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eac Inc; the most unlike its peers is New York University. 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

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 119 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
33/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $685,409 · OtherTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INCEAC INC: $581,505 · OtherEAC INCNPC RESEARCH: $555,509 · OtherNPC RESEARCHYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $408,062 · OtherYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONACook County Health Chicago: $339,959 · OtherCENTER FOR ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $336,656 · OtherGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $304,671 · OtherLOS ANGELES COUNTY REGISTRAR-RECORDERCOUNTY CLERK: $266,402 · OtherCROSSROADS ANTI-RACISM ORGANIZING & TRAINING: $335,400 · OtherELITE LEARNERS INC: $314,755 · Other+56 more: $3,437,401 · Other+56 moreTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,693,733 · HealthTHE FORTUNE SOCIET…FUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $414,616 · HealthFUND FOR PUBLIC HE…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $154,091 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE INCFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC: $90,085 · Health+11 more: $243,960 · Health+11 moreResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $1,633,601 · EducationResearch Foundatio…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $350,820 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UN…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $302,853 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF CO…AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $278,462 · EducationAMERICAN UNIVERSIT…+1 more: $30,000 · EducationBrownsville Think Tank Matters Inc: $595,889 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc: $269,305 · Community Improvement+1 more: $16,606 · Community ImprovementLEGAL SERVICES NYC: $375,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $276,756 · Crime & LegalEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC: $44,516 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION: $37,599 · Crime & LegalYOUNG NEW YORKERS INC: $28,693 · Crime & Legal+9 more: $96,426 · Crime & LegalFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $755,064 · PhilanthropyCHOICE OF NEW ROCHELLE INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF RECOVERY DEDICATED TO OTHERS INC: $109,535 · Human ServicesJACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $105,324 · Human ServicesTOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $100,767 · Human ServicesINSIDE-OUTSIDE CIRCLE FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER: $63,803 · Human ServicesSACRED PURPOSES INC: $35,200 · Human Services+8 more: $83,504 · Human Services
Other$7,565,729Health$2,596,485Education$2,595,736Community Improvement$881,800Crime & Legal$858,990Philanthropy$755,064Human Services$733,133

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $1,693,733 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $1,633,601 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC: $755,064 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC: $685,409 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBrownsville Think Tank Matters Inc: $595,889 over 1y, 25% of budgetEAC INC: $581,505 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFUND FOR PUBLIC HEALTH IN NEW YORK INC: $414,616 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA: $408,062 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES NYC: $375,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $350,820 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ALTERNATIVE SENTENCING AND EMPLOYMENT SERVICES INC: $336,656 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSROADS ANTI-RACISM ORGANIZING & TRAINING: $335,400 over 3y, 11% of budgetELITE LEARNERS INC: $314,755 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $302,853 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $278,462 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $276,756 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc: $269,305 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $154,091 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCHOICE OF NEW ROCHELLE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $148,576 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR URBAN PEDAGOGY INC: $123,288 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF RECOVERY DEDICATED TO OTHERS INC: $109,535 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJACOB A RIIS NEIGHBORHOOD SETTLEMENT: $105,324 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $100,767 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELING SERVICES OF CORTLAND COUNTY INC: $90,085 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW YORK LEGAL ASSISTANCE GROUP INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $63,803 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRONX RIVER ALLIANCE INC: $48,836 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetEXODUS TRANSITIONAL COMMUNITY INC: $44,516 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUCONNECTCARE INC: $40,591 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURES WITHOUT VIOLENCE: $40,350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALL RISE FOR JUSTICE: $39,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AID AND DEFENDER ASSOCIATION: $37,599 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALABAMA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND JUSTICE INC: $36,847 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetNew York University: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG NEW YORKERS INC: $28,693 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget914UNITED INC: $24,993 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: $21,492 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $20,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBUFFALO PRENATAL-PERINATAL NETWORK INC: $18,750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY MURAL PROJECTINC: $18,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC: $17,608 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSING WORKS INC: $16,606 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEKTOEN INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE: $13,662 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChild Abuse Network Inc dba Child Advocacy Network: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE HARBOR INC: $9,982 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Children's Law Center: $9,926 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

National Children's A…Mother Cabrini Health…Brooklyn Community Fo…Lily Auchincloss Foun…The New York Bar Foun…Pinkerton FoundationSurdna Foundation IncResearch Foundation o…Finger Lakes Performi…The Recycling Partner…Rockefeller Philanthr…The Hyde and Watson F…
National Children's Alliance IncDC24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Children's Alliance Inc · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Bar Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · Surdna Foundation Inc · Research Foundation of the City University of New York · Finger Lakes Performing Provider System Inc · The Recycling Partnership Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Hyde and Watson 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Justice Innovation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Justice Innovation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Prevention Education Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
32report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 119 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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