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The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

THE ANTI-RECIDIVISM COALITION (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$332k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

7
’21
2
’22
6
’23
11
’24
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$428kCrime & Legal$175kHuman Services$166kEducation$159kHousing & Shelter$113kHealth$83kYouth Development$60kCommunity Improvement$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $637,501, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,100,203 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $462,702 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $332k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$42M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%THE PLACE4GRACE: $41k → 11%ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ACTION FUND: $125k → 12%SACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $113k → 12%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.
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.

22%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$254k · 5 repeat orgs$877k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
8

Total granted

$254k
$349k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+24%

Still filing today

80%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $528k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $83k · revenue +100%
  • JG
    JAIL GUITAR DOORS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $66k · revenue +121%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $50k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SD
    SACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $113k · revenue +24%
  • YJ
    YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $71k · revenue +47%
  • CS
    CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
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
Community Justice Center

Cultivating individual and collective well-being, shared accountability, and healing through community-driven research and evidence-based restorative processes.

Crime & Legal
2
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

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,…

Crime & Legal
3
Beyond Us & Them

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…

Human Services
4
Alliance for Safety and Justice

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,…

Crime & Legal
5
Peace and Justice Law Center

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…

Crime & Legal
6
University of California Student Association

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…

Education
7
California State Student Association

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.

Education
8
The Connie Rice Institute for Urban Peace

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.…

Crime & Legal
9
Justice Innovation Inc

The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.

Crime & Legal
10
Arts for Healing and Justice Network

Ahjn is an organization providing structure and coordination for the collaborative work of community-based arts education organizations serving system-impacted youth in the los angeles county, in order to provide alternatives to…

Arts & Culture
11
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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12
Collective Remake Art Business Education Jobs News People and Rec

COLLECTIVE REMAKE: Art, Business, Education, Jobs, News, People, and Recycling for Sustainability is a unique social co-operative-in Los Angeles County-designed to support the creation of worker-owned businesses and other kinds of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Swan Within Inc: $332,000 · OtherSwan Within IncCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTO: $55,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SACRAMENTOROCK OF REFUGE PRISON MINISTRY: $30,000 · OtherROCK OF REFUGE PRISON MINISTRYTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $20,000 · Other+1 more: $9,167 · OtherAlliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice: $125,000 · Human ServicesAlliance for Safety and J…SACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $113,184 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNC…THE PLACE4GRACE: $41,000 · Human ServicesTHE PLACE4GRACETIDES CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesJAIL GUITAR DOORS: $66,333 · Crime & LegalJAIL GUITAR …GREEN ARROW CO-LAB: $25,000 · Crime & LegalGREEN ARROW …REEVOLUTION: $16,250 · Crime & LegalREEVOLUTIONCHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC: $16,250 · Crime & LegalCHOICES FOR …THE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE: $16,250 · Crime & LegalTHE AHIMSA C…YOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $71,400 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH JUSTI…JUSTICE BY UNITING IN CREATIVE ENERGY: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentJUSTICE BY …CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $50,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA…SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationSAN DIEGO …UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…UNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST: $10,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…BLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $82,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $56,667 · Community Improvement
Other$466,167Human Services$289,184Crime & Legal$140,083Youth Development$131,400Education$125,000Health$82,500Community Improvement$56,667

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAlliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice: $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSACRAMENTO DISTRICT COUNCIL ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $113,184 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBLACK WOMEN FOR WELLNESS: $82,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetYOUTH JUSTICE COALITION INC: $71,400 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetJAIL GUITAR DOORS: $66,333 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetJUSTICE BY UNITING IN CREATIVE ENERGY: $60,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS: $56,667 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES AUXILIARY SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PLACE4GRACE: $41,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN ARROW CO-LAB: $25,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREEVOLUTION: $16,250 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCHOICES FOR FREEDOM INC: $16,250 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE AHIMSA COLLECTIVE: $16,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE WEST: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Heising-Simons Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…The California Endowm…The California Wellne…The San Francisco Fou…California Community …Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Heising-Simons FoundationCA15.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Anti-Recidivism Coalition funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Anti-Recidivism Coalition. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 24 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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