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NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
The NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM (nicjr) is a non-profit organization providing technical assistance, consulting, research, and organizational development in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice, youth development, and violence prevention.
$475k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants
5
Communities
$80k
Largest
01What you fund
0168% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Education$150kCommunity Improvement$100kCrime & Legal$87kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHuman Services$20kYouth Development$15kOther$202k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2023
healthsocialreducetogetheryoungencourageblack men
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $125k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $342k
$20,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
- THOMAS RIDELY'S 1 LIKE ME INC$80,000
- COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS$80,000
- COMMUNITY AND YOUTH OUTREACH INC (CYO)$71,147
- YOUTH ALIVE$60,695
- INDY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION (IPSF)$50,000
- INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK$20,000
- GREATNESS UNLIMITED$20,000
- TOGETHER WE RISE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT MODEL LLC$20,000
- THE BLACK MAN LAB$20,000
- YAAY ME INC$15,000
- CURE VIOLENCE ATLANTA INC$10,000
- GIRASSOL WELLNESS$10,000
- CULTURAL TRIBES PEACE NETWORK$10,000
- ADVOCATE 4 PEACE AND URBAN UNITY$7,200
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Urban Youth Ministry of Greater
Youth
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2
Keeping Communities Safe
Youth Mentoring Program /Community Advocacy Agency
Philanthropy
3
Urban Peace Movement
Urban Peace Movement (UPM) launched in 2009 with a mission to build youth leadership in Oakland and Alameda Counties to transform the social conditions that drive violence and mass incarceration, issues that disproportionately impact BIPOC…
Youth Development
4
Community Youth Initiative
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5
Young Adult Institute Inc
Yai's mission is to empower people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) to live the lives they truly desire. we provide a wide range of supports and services that are person centered and person directed. by seeing beyond…
Human Services
6
BlackPush Inc
Our organization combats gun violence works to turn out the vote pushes for laws to help previously incarcerated and issues related to social injustice.
Religion
7
Man Up Inc
Man up adopts proven strategies and models that work to decrease the rate of recidivism, increase higher educational achievment and positively impact economic stability in the inner city, especially for african american and lationo young…
Crime & Legal
8
Community Violence Intervention Center
Preventing violence. promoting safety. building hope. cvic's safer tomorrows road map is unprecedented in its multi-faceted approach to end interpersonal violence by simultaneously addressing safety, healing and prevention/education.
Human Services
9
Minnesota Acts Now
Crime and communities violence interve
Crime & Legal
10
Cultures United
Free soccer programing to youth and young adults
Unclassified
11
You Yes You Project Inc
Our vision is that by connecting incarcerated fthers with their children and resources prior to release will do three things (1) enhance the relationships between father and child while giving them a foundation to build upon after release…
Human Services
12
Aya House Inc
AYA House provides transitional housing in a home environment to individuals coming out of incarceration, substance abuse treatment, and chronic homelessnes HOLISTIC HEALTH, SOBRIETY, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT
Crime & Legal
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yaay Me Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community & Youth Outreach Inc. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$201,842Education$149,500Community Improvement$100,000Crime & Legal$87,200Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Human Services$20,000Youth Development$15,000
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 Columbia University ↗
- Who funds THOMAS RIDELY'S 1 LIKE ME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY AND YOUTH OUTREACH INC (CYO) ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ALIVE ↗
- Who funds INDY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION (IPSF) ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE BLACK MAN LAB ↗
- Who funds YAAY ME INC ↗
- Who funds CURE VIOLENCE ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds GIRASSOL WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATE 4 PEACE AND URBAN UNITY ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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 organisation NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE BLACK MAN LAB.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 844788993 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE BLACK MAN LAB, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform?
Find your warmest path to National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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