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Public Defender Association

The purpose dignity action advances social and racial equity and community health through reform of the criminal justice system. Grounding reform in a public health and safety framework, pda develops new strategies and implements models that improve on conventional responses to crime and public order issues. In collaboration with…

$3.6M
Granted FY2020
5
Itemized grants FY2020
5
Organizations funded FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$48k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$10,000
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$22M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Revive Center for Returning Citizens$10,0001n/a
Solid Ground Washington$10,00010%
Washington Recovery Alliance$10,00012%
Progress Pushers$10,00011%
You Grow Girl$7,50011%

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Public Defender Association

How much does Public Defender Association give?
Public Defender Association reported 5 itemized grants totaling $47,500, out of $3,598,533 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing.
What does Public Defender Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2020, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (42%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Youth Development (21%).
Who are Public Defender Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2020: The Revive Center for Returning Citizens ($10k), Solid Ground Washington ($10k), Washington Recovery Alliance ($10k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Public Defender Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Public Defender Association based?
Public Defender Association 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 5 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $2.2M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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