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The Anti-Recidivism Coalition
THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Anti-Recidivism Coalition’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Action For Safety And Justice, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Anti-Recidivism Coalition named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $638k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 12 grants below total $637,501 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,100,203 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $462,702 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $332k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SWAN WITHIN INC MEREDITH HARPER | $332,000 |
| JUSTICE BY UNITING IN CREATIVE ENERGY | $60,000 |
| JAIL GUITAR DOORS | $58,000 |
| TREE YOGA COOPERATIVE | $56,667 |
| SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CAL STATE LA UNIVERSITY AUXILIIARY SERICES INC | $25,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION | $20,000 |
| GREEN ARROW CO-LAB | $16,667 |
| UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST | $10,000 |
| STUDIOS 4 STUDENTS | $9,167 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $289k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS2× · 2021–2022 · $83k · revenue +100%- JGJAIL GUITAR DOORS2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +75%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- SDSACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $113k · revenue +31%
- YJYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue +47%
- CSCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTOone grant, 2023 · $55k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Cultivating individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research and evidence-based restorative processes.
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization,…
The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…
To offer programs and training that resource individuals and organizations in self-awareness, self-regulation, effective communication and to promote structures of belonging, utilizing council and other practices, to encourage social…
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,…
To advance community safety and constitutional rights, including the causes of equal protection under the law and the advancement of First Amendment rights, exclusively for charitable and educational purposes in accordance with Section…
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
Urban peace institute reduces and prevents community violence by applying a public health approach to understand the underlying reasons for violence and create innovative, holistic ways to change the conditions that lead to them.…
California western school of law is an independent, aba/aals and wasc senior college and university commission (wscuc) accredited s.d. law school that prepares graduates for the practice of law through a carefully sequenced program of…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
CSSA as a student-led organization strives to improve the lives of California State University (CSU) students by advocating for student needs and engaging students in systemwide, state, and federal higher education policy making.
Court diversion programs as an alternative to traditional criminal justice processing of offenders which includes education, employment, information and other services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners and the most unlike its peers is Justice By Uniting in Creative Energy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 14% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 24 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Swan Within Inc ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS ↗
- Who funds YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds JAIL GUITAR DOORS ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE BY UNITING IN CREATIVE ENERGY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE PLACE4GRACE ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GREEN ARROW CO-LAB ↗
- Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC ↗
- Who funds REEVOLUTION ↗
- Who funds THE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB ↗
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 tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Heising-Simons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · California Community Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organization The Anti-Recidivism Coalition 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.
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 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.