· Public charity
The Just Trust for Education
Accelerate momentum for justice reform and public safety innovation in every corner of the country.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $674k
- $50k–250k89 grants · $10.0M
- $250k+32 grants · $15M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE | $1,000,000 |
| FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| THE MARSHALL PROJECT | $875,000 |
| JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA | $850,000 |
| THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN AND G | $850,000 |
| FOR THE PEOPLE | $600,000 |
| VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE | $500,000 |
| THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY | $500,000 |
| PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES | $500,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE USA | $500,000 |
| FORMERLY INCARCERATED CONVICTED PEOPLE AND FAMILIES MOVEMENT | $450,000 |
| DREAMORG | $400,000 |
| FORWARD JUSTICE | $400,000 |
| REPRESENT JUSTICE (FORWARD IMPACT) | $400,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.4M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +65%
- EJEQUAL JUSTICE USA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +30%
- FTFOR THE PEOPLE2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28% · 30% of their budget
Funded once
- RIRECIDIVIZ INCone grant, 2023 · $2.5M · revenue -38%
- CJCRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +20%
- ACAMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINCone grant, 2023 · $700k · revenue -13%
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.
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.
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…
Southern coalition for social justice partners with communities of color and economically disadvantaged communities across the south to defend and advance their political, social, and economic rights. through an intersectional and…
Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.
Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…
Colorofchange.org works to strengthen the voice of black americans and increase the level of accountability and responsiveness of elected officials to underrepresented black constituencies using the internet as a lobbying and…
To advance economic and social liberties and a free enterprise society through strategic litigation, training, communication, activism and research. in addition, the center will train law students, lawyers and policy activists in the…
To promote the accountability of law enforcement officers and their employers for violations of the Constitution or laws of the United States.
Legal services & public interest law.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
To provide legal assistance to people living in poverty in order to promote social welfare.
The Southern Center for Human Rights is working for equality, dignity, and justice for people impacted by the criminal legal system in the Deep South. SCHR fights for a world free from mass incarceration, the death penalty, the…
To promote advocacy on legislative issues in support of civil rights and liberties. to advance the organization's civil rights and civil liberties agenda in the state of louisiana legislature.
How this is measured
143 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. 143 of the 149 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds RECIDIVIZ INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTLEADERSHIPUSA INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEXAS PUBLIC POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOR THE PEOPLE ↗
- Who funds FORWARD JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds PRISON FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BETTER ANGELS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SENTENCING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF THE EXPERIENCED VOTE ↗
- Who funds FORWARD IMPACT ↗
- Who funds DREAMORG ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Prison Policy Initiative ↗
- Who funds LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE UNION FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds CIVIL RIGHTS CORPS ↗
- Who funds THE REACH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS FOR KIDS ↗
- Who funds Third Space Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTA FULTON COUNTY PREARREST DIVERSION INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GROUNDTRUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE BIRD CLINIC ↗
- Who funds Newark Community Street Team Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR APPALACHIAN KENTUCKY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: New Venture Fund · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Laura and John Arnold Foundation · Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation Incorporated · The Ford Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Borealis Philanthropy
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Just Trust for Education funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Just Trust for Education. Bigger dots raise more.
- Newark Community Street Team Inc: 38% of income from government
- White Bird Clinic: 29% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc: 12% of income from government
- Tulsa Community Foundation: 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- The Poynter Institute for Media Studies Inc: 1% of income from government
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