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Lotta Fund for Aiding Discharged Convicts #0710900 Nutter McClennen Fish

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$49k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$169kHuman Services$52kEmployment$31k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$6,300
Median grant
8
States reached
$729k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY$6,300
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$6,300
THE FIRST 72$6,300
FORTUNE SOCIETY$6,300
CENTER ON JUVENILE & CRIMINAL JUSTICE$6,300
PRODIGAL MINISTRIES$6,300
MASS SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHARGED PRISONERS$5,800
HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER$5,800
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 (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE FIRST 72: $7k → 23%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $7k → 4%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 14%THE FIRST 72: $7k → 23%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $7k → 4%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%THE FIRST 72: $6k → 23%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $6k → 4%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $6k → 14%THE FIRST 72: $6k → 23%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $6k → 4%THE FIRST 72: $6k → 23%PRODIGAL MINISTRIES: $6k → 4%HOWARD AREA COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 14%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

IL
NY
MA
CA
MO
KY
DC
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$248k · 10 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$248k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+90%

Still filing today

90%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • CJ
    CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +175%
  • TF
    The First 72
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +42%
  • PM
    PRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • PI
    PARTAKERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +90%
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
Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services Inc

Cases' mission is to increase public safety through innovative services that reduce crime and incarceration, improve behavioral health, promote recovery and rehabilitation, and create opportunities for success in the community. we believe…

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2
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
3
Project Return Inc

People who have just been released from prison are typically stigmatized, overlooked, and pigeonholed by society. when they walk into project return, they discover that here they are valued, heard, and encouraged. while reduction of…

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4
Community Resources for Justice Inc

Community resources for justice, inc. changes lives and strengthens communities by advancing policy and delivering individualized services that promote safety, justice and inclusion.

Crime & Legal
5
The Osborne Association Inc

The association's purpose is to provide services to defendants, incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated people and their families: to provide alternatives to incarceration; to provide job training and job placement; to provide reentry…

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6
Center for Employment Opportunities Inc

We provide effective employment services to individuals recently released from incarceration.

Employment
7
Youth Justice Network Inc

Youth Justice Network (YJN)s mission is to break cycles of incarceration and build an equitable justice system by providing young people with individualized advocacy, mentorship, and opportunities to grow, thrive, and lead. (SEE SCHEDULE O)

Human Services
8
Jericho House

Housing to ex inmates

Housing & Shelter
9
The Affinity House

Sober living for women

Health
10
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

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
Second Street Second Chances Inc

Research and community leaders confirm that incarcerated individuals who receive support greatly increase their chances to continue on a path to responsible citizenship and positive engagement. second street second chances, inc. mission is…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The First 72; the most unlike its peers is Prodigal Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The First 72: $30,500 · Human ServicesThe First 72PRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC: $30,500 · Human ServicesPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INCHoward Area Community Center: $21,900 · Human ServicesHoward Area Community CenterCenter on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: $33,500 · Crime & LegalCenter on Juvenile and Criminal Ju…CRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY: $30,500 · Crime & LegalCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRYJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION: $8,000 · Crime & LegalJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATIONPARTAKERS INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalMASS SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHARGED PRISONERS: $31,800 · OtherMASS SOCIETY FOR AIDING DISCHAR…THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,500 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $8,000 · OtherCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW…THE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $22,900 · HealthTHE FORTUN…
Human Services$82,900Crime & Legal$76,000Other$70,300Health$22,900

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCenter on Juvenile and Criminal Justice: $33,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE MINISTRY: $30,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe First 72: $30,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPRODIGAL MINISTRIES INC: $30,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORTUNE SOCIETY INC: $22,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHoward Area Community Center: $21,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN HOWARD ASSOCIATION: $8,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTAKERS INC: $4,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Lotta Fund for Aiding Discharged Convicts #0710900 Nutter McClennen Fish funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lotta Fund for Aiding Discharged Convicts #0710900 Nutter McClennen Fish. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • Partakers Inc: 59% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Lotta Fund for Aiding Discharged Convicts #0710900 Nutter McClennen Fish 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.

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 11 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-PF 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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