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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $4,478,784, the rows itemized in this filing. The $8,548,784 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,070,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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.

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. 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -51% for those 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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People's Forum Inc; 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 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. 10 of the 12 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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 →

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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 Justice and Education Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Justice and Education Fund 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%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, 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.
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    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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