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Northwest Justice Project

Northwest Justice Project (NJP) provides free legal assistance to address fundamental human needs such as housing, family safety, income security, health care, education, and more. Our work challenges structural and racial inequities to promote the long-term well-being of low-income individuals, families and communities across Washington…

$5.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$150,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$4,069,034
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$38M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Northwest Justice Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving10$5.2M90%
FY20231$3.5M0%
FY20221$3.5M0%
FY20211$3.9M0%
FY20201$3.1M0%
FY20191$3.6M0%
FY20181$2.7M0%
FY20171$1.9Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$27MHealth$150k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Northwest Justice Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLegal Foundation of Washington: $26,206,764 over 8y, 25% of budgetTeamChild: $385,584 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetLiving with Conviction: $197,169 over 1y, 34% of budgetNorthwest Health Law Advocates: $171,399 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetCrisis Connections: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWashington Autism Alliance: $73,137 over 1y, 16% of budgetSkagit Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Services: $69,025 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetDisability Rights Washington: $43,001 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKind Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSolid Ground Washington: $18,773 over 1y, 0.1% 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 10.

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.

Seattle FoundationWA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Northwest Justice Project

How much does Northwest Justice Project give?
Northwest Justice Project reported 10 grants totaling $5,202,122 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Northwest Justice Project fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (99%), Health (1%).
Who are Northwest Justice Project's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Legal Foundation of Washington ($26M), TeamChild ($386k), Living with Conviction ($197k).
Does Northwest Justice Project fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northwest Justice Project?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, The Norcliffe Foundation, National Philanthropic Trust.
Where is Northwest Justice Project based?
Northwest Justice Project is based in WA.

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 10 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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