Michigan · Public charity
Safe & Just Michigan
Works to advance policies that end michigan's overuse of incarceration and promotes community safety and healing.
- $202k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $127,001
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $127,001
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 8
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Safe & Just Michigan funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 2 | $202k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 3 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $465k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $185k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $330k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $10k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nation Outside Inc | $1,584,062 | 3 | 100% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $400,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Michigan Advocacy Program | $151,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mothering Justice | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Legal Aid of Western Michigan | $36,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Legal Services of Eastern Michigan | $36,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lakeshore Legal Aid | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan Indian Legal Services | $36,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Public Policy Associates LLC | $29,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Faith in Action | $25,000 | 2 | 9% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nation Outside Inc | $1,584,062 | 3 | 100% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $400,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Michigan Advocacy Program | $151,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mothering Justice | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Legal Aid of Western Michigan | $36,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Legal Services of Eastern Michigan | $36,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Lakeshore Legal Aid | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Michigan Indian Legal Services | $36,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Public Policy Associates LLC | $29,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Michigan Faith in Action | $25,000 | 2 | 9% |
| A Brighter Way | $20,000 | 1 | 8% |
| Recovery Concepts | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Detroit Justice Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Where it is load-bearing
Safe & Just Michigan supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 10 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Michigan State Bar Foundation · United Way for Southeastern Michigan · WK Kellogg Foundation · Legal Services Corporation · The Kresge Foundation · Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Safe & Just Michigan
- How much does Safe & Just Michigan give?
- Safe & Just Michigan reported 2 grants totaling $202,001 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 8 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Safe & Just Michigan fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (80%), Civil Rights (18%), Community Improvement (1%).
- Who are Safe & Just Michigan's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nation Outside Inc ($1.6M), American Friends Service Committee ($400k), Michigan Advocacy Program ($151k).
- Does Safe & Just Michigan fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Safe & Just Michigan?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Michigan State Bar Foundation, United Way for Southeastern Michigan, WK Kellogg Foundation.
- Where is Safe & Just Michigan based?
- Safe & Just Michigan is based in MI.
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