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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.

$510k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$345k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$3.4MHuman Services$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.0MEnvironment$287kHealth$92kPublic Benefit$49kAnimals$49k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $34k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
  • $250k+1 grant · $345k
$75,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION RESTORATION$345,000
THE LIBERTY INITIATIVE INC$75,000
CRAVEN COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND$55,350
BRONX FREEDOM FUND$34,380
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 (FY20–25, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MANO AMIGA: $10k → 10%OPERATION RESTORATION: $752k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $345k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $331k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $161k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $113k → 23%OPERATION RESTORATION: $48k → 23%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

WA
IL
NY
CA
MO
VA
AR
TN
NC
LA
TX
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 10 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$5.4M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-30%
0%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • OR
    OPERATION RESTORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +46%
  • FC
    Freedom Community Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue ×15
  • EW
    Excelsior Wellness
    3× · 2021–2023 · $92k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $900k · revenue -19%
  • TO
    TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $96k · revenue -48%
  • LI
    LIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $49k · revenue 0%
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
Just Liberty

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.

—
2
Fair Fight Initiative Inc

Through litigation and community advocacy, fair fight initiative exposes mistreatment in the law enforcement system and works to end mass incarceration.

—
3
Seeds of Liberation Inc

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…

Education
4
Lets Get Free- the Women & Trans

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…

Public Benefit
5
Prison Policy Initiative

The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.

Civil Rights
6
Operation Liberation

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…

Civil Rights
7
Freedom for Immigrants

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…

Civil Rights
8
Transformative Justice of Williamson County
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9
First Defense Legal Aid

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.

Crime & Legal
10
Lioness Justice Impacted Womens Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
11
Justice Unlocked

Justice Unlocked bridges the gap between those within the community who cannot afford an attorney, but don't qualify for legal assistance.

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12
National Legal Advocacy Network Dba Glow

The National Legal Advocacy Network d/b/a Grassroots Law & Organizing for Workers is a legal non-profit organization dedicated to using legal strategies as a tool to build power for marginalized workers and create systemic change through…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Restoring Justice; the most unlike its peers is Operation Liberation. 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

14 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. 14 of the 16 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
5/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR JUST AND MORAL GOVERNANCE: $1,694,300 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR JUST AND MORAL GOVERNANC…LAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $900,000 · Crime & LegalLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER+3 more: $190,541 · Crime & Legal+3 moreOPERATION RESTORATION: $1,749,894 · Human ServicesOPERATION RESTORATION+1 more: $9,700 · Human ServicesFreedom Community Center: $1,021,700 · Community ImprovementFreedom Community C…TEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $96,000 · Community ImprovementTEXAS ORGANIZING PR…HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $324,800 · EnvironmentCRAVEN COUNTY COMMUNITY BAIL FUND: $182,750 · OtherTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT: $91,771 · OtherLIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND: $49,000 · OtherExcelsior Wellness: $91,793 · HealthTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $83,731 · Arts & CultureOPERATION LIBERATION: $48,750 · Animals
Crime & Legal$2,784,841Human Services$1,759,594Community Improvement$1,117,700Environment$324,800Other$323,521Health$91,793Arts & Culture$83,731Animals$48,750

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOPERATION RESTORATION: $1,749,894 over 6y, 19% of budgetCOMMUNITY ADVOCATES FOR JUST AND MORAL GOVERNANCE: $1,694,300 over 3y, 21% of budgetFreedom Community Center: $1,021,700 over 4y, 22% of budgetLAWNDALE CHRISTIAN LEGAL CENTER: $900,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $324,800 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTEXAS ORGANIZING PROJECT EDUCATION FUND: $96,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetExcelsior Wellness: $91,793 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJAIL PROJECT OF TEXAS: $88,342 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE BRONX FREEDOM FUND INC: $83,731 over 2y, 93% of budgetLIBERTY INITIATIVE FUND: $49,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRESTORING JUSTICE: $27,199 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMANO AMIGA SM: $9,700 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

Vera Institute of Jus…Borealis PhilanthropyTides CenterNEO Philanthropy IncImpactassetsincThe Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Vera Institute of Justice IncNY15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bail Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bail Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Bail Project Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Bail Project Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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