· Public charity
The Bail Project Inc
The bail project ("tbp") is a national nonprofit organization that pays bail for people in need, reuniting families and restoring the presumption of innocence.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
- $250k+1 grant · $345k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION RESTORATION | $345,000 |
| THE LIBERTY INITIATIVE INC | $75,000 |
| CRAVEN COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND | $55,350 |
| BRONX FREEDOM FUND | $34,380 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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
- OROPERATION RESTORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +46%
- FCFreedom Community Center4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×15
- EWExcelsior Wellness3× · 2021–2023 · $92k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- LCLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTERone grant, 2022 · $900k · revenue -19%
- TOTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2023 · $96k · revenue -48%
- LILIBERTY INITIATIVE FUNDone grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue 0%
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.
At just liberty, we want a criminal justice system which protects families instead of disrupting them, treats everyone fairly, rewards personal responsibility, and promotes liberty, justice, and respect for human dignity.
Through litigation and community advocacy, fair fight initiative exposes mistreatment in the law enforcement system and works to end mass incarceration.
The Little Rock Freedom Fund (LRFF) is a black-led movement organization that was founded by veteran black activists in Little Rock amid the 2020 Summer of Resistance. LRFFs mission is to work alongside marginalized communities in Arkansas…
We are a group working to end Death by Incarceration also known as life without parole sentencing, build a pathway out of the prisons back to our communities through commutation reform, support successful possibilities for people formerly…
Black kansas citians are disproportionately criminalized and caged while awaiting trial, due to over-policing and institutional anti-blackness. operation liberation aims to remove barriers to black liberation, end cash bail and pretrial…
Freedom for Immigrants is an abolitionist organization that envisions a world without prisons or cages of any kind. We work to abolish immigration incarceration, recognizing we are part of a broader movement fighting for our freedom at the…
The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.
Justice Unlocked bridges the gap between those within the community who cannot afford an attorney, but don't qualify for legal assistance.
First Defense Legal Aid mobilizes lawyers and community members to fill gaps in public defense and create, protect, and engage replicable alternatives to the criminal system, starting with its entry points.
The Lioness Justice Impacted Women's Alliance is a nonprofit organization led by currently and formerly incarcerated girls, women, and gender-expansive individuals. Its mission is to reduce incarceration and address systemic inequities…
Transforming the narrative of criminalization: an abolitionist approach. ending the reliance on the private prison industry decarceration: advocating for policies that reduce the prison population, such as bail reform and funding…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoring Justice and the most unlike its peers is Mano Amiga Sm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 OPERATION RESTORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR JUST AND MORAL GOVERNANCE ↗
- Who funds Freedom Community Center ↗
- Who funds LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Excelsior Wellness ↗
- Who funds JAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds THE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIBERTY INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND ↗
- Who funds OPERATION LIBERATION ↗
- Who funds RESTORING JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MANO AMIGA SM ↗
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: Vera Institute of Justice Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Tides Center · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Bail Project Inc 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.
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