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Arc of Justice

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.7M
Granted FY2022
93
Grants FY2022
17
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Civil Rights$2.9MInternational$1.7MPhilanthropy$1.1MCrime & Legal$312kPublic Benefit$285kHousing & Shelter$255kEnvironment$239kCommunity Improvement$220kOther$0
02FY2022 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k19 grants · $89k
  • $10k–50k67 grants · $900k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $403k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIAL GOOD FUND$500,000
GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL$500,000
CODE PINK$355,350
CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS$200,000
WORLD BEYOND WAR$100,000
FOOD SERVICE DIRECT$53,182
SOLIDAIREPROTEUS FUND$50,000
ETINA$45,000
INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
WASHINGTON LEGAL CLINIC FOR THE$20,000
ROOTS & REBOUND$20,000
FLORIDA IMMIGRANT COALITION$20,000
ACLU$20,000
NATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BORDER ANGELS: $10k → 11%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $5k → 9%BORDER ANGELS: $10k → 11%BACKBONE CAMPAIGN: $5k → 9%DOMESTIC WORKERS UNITED: $5k → 20%ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 12%TIDES CENTER: $40k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%SANT LA HAITIAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $5k → 15%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%JUSTICE FIRST: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 127 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

127 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2022, 48 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

127
77

Total granted

$8.0M
$558k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+17%

Still filing today

61%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’22
InternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationReligionOther

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

  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.4M · revenue +189%
  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
    5× · 2017–2022 · $126k · revenue +14%
  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    5× · 2017–2022 · $81k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • AS YOU SOW
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue +22%
  • CO
    COUNCIL ON HEMISPHERIC AFFAIRS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
3
Guernica Centre for InternationalJustice

The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…

International
4
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
5
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
6
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
7
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
8
Right to Democracy Project

Advance democracy, equity, and self-determination in U.S. territories through participatory advocacy, narrative and cultural change, and ecosystem building.

Civil Rights
9
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
10
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
11
Rules Foundation

/The Rules is a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality, climate change, and poverty around the world.

12
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is Washington Interfaith Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsImmigrant Worker SupportAffordable Housing Developm…Women & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Food Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Jewish Community Organizati…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%41%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr16%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%38%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%4/125
the rest of the field
13%
240,393/1,819,440

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.

04the grantee network

120 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 223 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
115/120
Grantees still filing
85/120
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CODE PINK — $1,307,950 · OtherCODE PINKSOLIDAIREPROTEUS FUND — $225,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $215,000 · OtherWORLD BEYOND WAR — $180,740 · Other+128 more — $2,688,004 · Other+128 moreGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,450,000 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INCINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $126,000 · InternationalCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $85,000 · International+27 more — $804,316 · International+27 moreCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $550,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR …GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE — $70,000 · Civil RightsGRASSROOTS …CAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Civil RightsFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $50,000 · Civil RightsJobs with Justice — $35,100 · Civil RightsFREE PRESS ACTION FUND — $35,000 · Civil RightsThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $35,000 · Civil Rights+10 more — $155,000 · Civil Rights+10 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $855,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOO…Exchange for Change Inc — $45,000 · Education+2 more — $15,000 · EducationENVIRONMENTALISM THROUGH INSPIRATION & NONVIOLENT ACTION — $105,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $50,000 · EnvironmentHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $50,000 · Environment350ORG — $40,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $35,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY — $180,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE DOE FUND INC — $20,000 · Housing & ShelterTIDES CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesBORDER ANGELS — $20,000 · Human ServicesTeambrownsville Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesBackbone Campaign — $10,000 · Human ServicesJUSTICE FIRST — $5,800 · Human Services+3 more — $15,000 · Human Services
Other$4,616,694International$2,465,316Civil Rights$980,100Education$915,000Environment$285,000Housing & Shelter$200,000Human Services$160,800

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $1,450,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $855,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $550,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY — $180,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES — $126,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTALISM THROUGH INSPIRATION & NONVIOLENT ACTION — $105,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $80,925 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE — $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $70,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTEACHING FOR CHANGE — $70,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetGREENPEACE INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $60,550 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH — $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCAIR-FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFlorida Immigrant Coalition Inc — $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetHIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetExchange for Change Inc — $45,000 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $40,200 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC — $40,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC — $40,050 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMADRE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budget350ORG — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNational Coalition for the Homeless — $40,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetROOT & REBOUND — $40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEMPOWER DC — $40,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetJobs with Justice — $35,100 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMON DREAMS INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetGUATEMALA HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION USA — $35,000 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE EARTH — $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUBILEE USA NETWORK — $35,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPUBLIC COMMUNICATORS INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFREE PRESS ACTION FUND — $35,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetNonviolent Peaceforce — $35,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice — $35,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPeace Development Fund — $32,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCASA INC — $30,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY BLOSSOMS INC — $30,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL LABOR RIGHTS FORUM — $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetAlianza Americas — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $30,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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 GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS
  • Who funds ORGANIZING NEIGHBORHOOD EQUITY
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTALISM THROUGH INSPIRATION & NONVIOLENT ACTION
  • Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC
  • Who funds Alliance for Global Justice Corp
  • Who funds GRASSROOTS GLOBAL JUSTICE
  • Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT
  • Who funds TEACHING FOR CHANGE
  • Who funds GREENPEACE INC
  • Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE
  • Who funds PUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER
  • Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC AND POLICY RESEARCH
  • Who funds CAIR-FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Florida Immigrant Coalition Inc
  • Who funds CHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC
  • Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID
  • Who funds Exchange for Change Inc
  • Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR POPULAR DEMOCRACY INC
  • Who funds JEWS UNITED FOR JUSTICE INC
  • Who funds MADRE INC
  • Who funds 350ORG

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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC41.8× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Tides Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co · Proteus Fund Inc · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Open Society Action Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Open Society Institute · Impactassetsinc

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 Arc of Justice 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 130%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Urban Oasis Project Inc12% of income from government
  • Casa Inc8% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc6% of income from government
  • Fusion Partnership Inc3% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Arc of Justice?

Find your warmest path to Arc of Justice 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 223 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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