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Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights

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$354k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$8k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$731kHuman Services$250kCivil Rights$108kPhilanthropy$105kInternational$50kEducation$15k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $8,202, the rows itemized in this filing. The $354,163 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $345,961 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.
$8,202
Median grant
1
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FREE OUR VOTE$8,202
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 (FY20–21, $333k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $165k → 10%MANO AMIGA SM: $25k → 10%TRANSGENDER ADVOCATES KNOWLEDGEABLE EMPOWERING: $10k → 16%YWCA GREATER BATON ROUGE: $69k → 19%OPERATION RESTORATION: $60k → 23%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $5k → 10%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

ME
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NV
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$545k · 5 repeat orgs$714k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +14% since the first grant, against -25% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
30

Total granted

$545k
$706k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-25%

Still filing today

60%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Crime & LegalCivil RightsHuman ServicesHealthInternationalPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HB
    HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $170k · revenue +127%
  • JC
    Just City Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +14%
  • UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $25k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • YO
    YWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $69k · revenue +148%
  • CC
    CHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue -94%
  • OR
    OPERATION RESTORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +46%
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
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
4
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
5
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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6
Live Free Chicago

Live Free Illinois is a statewide organization partnering with over 120 congregations and directly impacted individuals to build safer more equitable communities across Illinois. Operating at the intersection of criminal justice reform and…

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7
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.

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8
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberationof immigrants in detention in california. we seek to empower immigrants in detentionand their communities through technical assistance, education, and…

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9
Barred Business Foundation

Help formerly incarcerated people who are disproportionately affected by the US legal system.

Human Services
10
Forward Justice Action Network

Forward Justice Action Network is a nonprofit with the purpose to engage in educational and advocacy activities to promote political and grassroots support for public policies that advance racial social and economic justice in North…

Human Services
11
The Justice Reform

The justice reform is answering the cry for justice by bringing reformation from city to city. we seek to be a voice for the voiceless, bring hope to the hopeless, and bring light into the darkness.

Arts & Culture
12
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Louisiana

To support the work of the amercian civil liberties union of louisiana through litigation, public education and limited lobbying in support of civil liberties.

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; the most unlike its peers is O D Aid. 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

32 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. 32 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/32
Grantees still filing
14/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UPTRUST INC: $200,000 · OtherUPTRUST INCROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC: $75,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION C…NEW ORLEANS FREEDOM FUND: $30,000 · OtherNEW ORLEANS FREEDOM FUNDST MARKS PARISH: $30,000 · OtherST MARKS PARISHFAITH IN TEXAS - PICO: $20,000 · Other+6 more: $51,000 · Other+6 moreHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $169,970 · Human ServicesHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCEYWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $68,500 · Human ServicesYWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGEOPERATION RESTORATION: $60,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATIONMANO AMIGA SM: $25,000 · Human ServicesMANO AMIGA SM+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesJust City Inc: $75,000 · Crime & LegalJust City IncCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $60,000 · Crime & LegalCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FU…Freedom Fund Network Inc: $53,500 · Crime & LegalFreedom Fund Network IncNorthwest Community Bail Fund: $25,000 · Crime & LegalNorthwest Community Bail …MINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND: $25,000 · Crime & LegalMINNESOTA FREEDOM FUNDYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $15,000 · Crime & LegalJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalMARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND: $10,000 · Crime & LegalNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $10,000 · Crime & LegalACTION FOR LIBERATION: $25,000 · Civil RightsACTION FOR…UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $25,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE …PROGRESSIVE LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE OF NEVADA: $25,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESSIV…Freedom for Immigrants: $22,500 · Civil RightsFreedom fo…ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: $10,000 · Civil RightsORGANIZATI…FREE OUR VOTE INC: $8,202 · Civil RightsFREE OUR V…THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · PhilanthropyDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 · EnvironmentAfghan-American Community Organization: $14,970 · EducationTRAMUTOPORTER FOUNDATION: $5,102 · Education
Other$406,000Human Services$333,470Crime & Legal$283,500Civil Rights$115,702Philanthropy$75,000Environment$25,000Education$20,072

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $169,970 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJust City Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetYWCA OF GREATER BATON ROUGE: $68,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCHICAGO COMMUNITY BOND FUND: $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $60,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFreedom Fund Network Inc: $53,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetDALLAS SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS: $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANO AMIGA SM: $25,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetACTION FOR LIBERATION: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorthwest Community Bail Fund: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFreedom for Immigrants: $22,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFAITH IN TEXAS - PICO: $20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetYOUTH REPRESENT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAfghan-American Community Organization: $14,970 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMARCH FOR OUR LIVES ACTION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNASHVILLE COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetO D AID: $10,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCOLOROFCHANGEORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRAMUTOPORTER FOUNDATION: $5,102 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetZANMI BENI FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Tides CenterActblue Charities IncNEO Philanthropy IncEntertainment Industr…Borealis PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitabl…Tides FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…ImpactassetsincThe Yelp FoundationPublic Welfare Founda…Proteus Fund Inc
Tides CenterCA30× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Tides Center · Actblue Charities Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Entertainment Industry Foundation · Borealis Philanthropy · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Yelp Foundation · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Proteus Fund Inc

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 Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    6report 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 36 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 2023, released 2023. 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 $280k 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 FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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