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The Justice and Education Fund Inc

To raise awareness through education and dissemination of information about pressing problems of society and how to effect social change.

$8.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

International$26MCivil Rights$2.3MPublic Benefit$2.1MCommunity Improvement$516kEducation$491kReligion$420kArts & Culture$300kHuman Services$149k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $4,478,784 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,548,784 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,070,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.3M
$300,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$279k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEOPLE'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION$2,310,000
BREAK THROUGH MEDIA$977,000
PEOPLES DISPATCH$701,659
INDEPENDENT MEDIA INSTITUTE$300,000
INTER-RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION INC$100,000
UNION DE VECINOS DE PISO ALISO$83,000
BLACK AGENDA REPORT LLC$7,125
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 (FY20–23, $149k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PEOPLE'S FORUM INC: $67k → 17%PEOPLE'S FORUM INC: $65k → 17%PEOPLE'S FORUM INC: $17k → 17%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.

Grants abroad, by region — $4.0M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$2.6M · 65% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.

Sub-Saharan Africa$900k · 23% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.

Central America and the Caribbean$450k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.

South America$40k · 1% · 4 grants

Stated purpose: CHARITABLE, RELIGIOUS, LITERARY OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSE.

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$32M · 10 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -51% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
1

Total granted

$32M
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-51%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesReligionOther

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

  • BM
    BreakthroughBT Media Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +510% · 89% of their budget
  • UD
    UNION DE VECINOS DE PICO ALISO
    5× · 2020–2024 · $516k · revenue +19% · 66% of their budget
  • CW
    CODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $491k · revenue +86% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • Alliance for Global Justice Corp
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -51%

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
First Look Institute Inc

First Look Institute supports fearless investigative journalism, innovative and cinematic nonfiction filmmaking, and press freedom initiatives to protect the right to a free and open society and press.

Arts & Culture
2
Global Policy Forum Inc

Research and education of United Nations activities

International
3
Democracy Unlimited

Democracy Unlimited uplifts people to build a world where our systems of power prioritize the well-being of humans and the living world. We reclaim authority that has been unjustly seized by governments and corporations - all with the aim…

Education
4
Partnership for Participatory International Policy

Partnership for Participatory International Policy coordinates opportunities for elected officials, staff and community leaders to learn from people impacted by US foreign policies and practices. We do this by organizing delegations to…

Civil Rights
5
Institute for Public Accuracy

To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.

Arts & Culture
6
The Conversationalist
7
Unicorn Riot

Unicorn Riot reports underrepresented stories and sheds light on alternative perspectives and systems. We aim to provode an accessible platform for diverse stories, communities, and media makers through free nonprofit news.

Arts & Culture
8
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.

9
Injustice Watch Nfp

Injustice Watch is a Chicago-based nonprofit journalism organization that examines issues of equity and justice in the court system.

Civil Rights
10
Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
11
Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California

The unitarian universalist legislative ministry, ca is a statewide justice ministry that cultivates and connects leaders and communites to empower the public voice of those who share uu values and principles

12
Polis Institute Inc

To champion human dignity by designing the solutions to the social problems that infringe upon it.

Religion

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People's Forum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Codepink Women for Peace. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PEOPLE'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION — $17,491,000 · InternationalPEOPLE'S WELFARE ASSOCIATIONUNITED COMMUNITY FUND — $8,500,000 · InternationalUNITED COMMUNITY FUND+1 more — $10,000 · InternationalBreakthroughBT Media Inc — $2,072,685 · Arts & CultureBreakthroughBT …PEOPLES DISPATCH LTD — $1,966,444 · Arts & CulturePEOPLES DISPATC…Independent Media Institute — $300,000 · Arts & CultureIndependent Med…UNION DE VECINOS DE PICO ALISO — $516,475 · Community ImprovementCODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE — $490,886 · EducationIFCO INC — $220,000 · OtherBLACK AGENDA REPORT — $161,550 · OtherINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $200,000 · ReligionPeople's Forum Inc — $148,730 · Human Services
International$26,001,000Arts & Culture$4,339,129Community Improvement$516,475Education$490,886Other$381,550Religion$200,000Human Services$148,730

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEOPLE'S WELFARE ASSOCIATION — $17,491,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY FUND — $8,500,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBreakthroughBT Media Inc — $2,072,685 over 5y, 89% of budgetUNION DE VECINOS DE PICO ALISO — $516,475 over 5y, 66% of budgetCODEPINK WOMEN FOR PEACE — $490,886 over 3y, 28% of budgetIndependent Media Institute — $300,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetINTERRELIGIOUS FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $200,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetPeople's Forum Inc — $148,730 over 4y, 73% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management IncNY10.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · 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 Justice and Education Fund 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 The Justice and Education Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Justice and Education Fund 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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