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The National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls

The mission of the national council for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls (national council) is to end incarceration of women and girls.

$462k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of THE NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR INCARCERATED AND FORMERLY INCARCERATED WOMEN & GIRLS’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $325,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $462,009 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $137,009 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

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $205k
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING$75,000
THE REMEDY PROJECT INC$70,000
STEP BEYOND WOMEN AND GIRLS INC$60,000
WOMEN AND GIRLS IN SISTERHOOD FOR HEALING INC$30,000
WHY NOT PROSPER$25,000
ILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR RE-ENTRY AND JUSTICE$25,000
VERMONT FREEDOM FUND$10,000
A WOMAN WORTH PROJECT$10,000
SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC$10,000
WOMENS JUSTICE INSTITUTE (FISCALLY SPONSORED PROJECT OF A SAFE HAVEN FDN)$10,000
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 (FY18–23, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%MOTHER'S IN CHARGE: $50k → 22%THE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY INC: $20k → 17%WITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION INC: $25k → 17%WITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION: $20k → 17%WE ARE BETTER TOGETHER WARREN DANIEL HAIRSTON PROJECT INC: $25k → 16%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

VT
IL
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PA
NJ
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CA
MD
NC
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GA
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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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$898k · 9 repeat orgs$894k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

$898k
$754k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+24%

Still filing today

56%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • FF
    FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $275k · revenue +9%
  • WA
    WOMEN AGAINST MASS INCARCERATION IN
    2× · 2020–2021 · $163k · revenue -68% · 87% of their budget
  • SB
    STEP BEYOND WOMEN AND GIRLS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $120k

Funded once

  • CC
    CHANGE COMES NOW INC
    one grant, 2020 · $110k
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $90k · revenue +24%
  • WJ
    Women's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $89k · revenue -68% · 71% of their budget

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
Women Who Never Give Up Inc

Our mission is to help people currently and previously incarcerated and their families get justice in our criminal justice and prison system. WWNG Up Inc. works daily with the NJ DOC and other state agencies legislatures and communities…

Community Improvement
2
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
3
Women Initiating Success Envisioned Inc

To counsel, educate, and prepare women inmates for successful re-entry into their communities to train, support, and assist women upon release to overcome discrimination, negative stigmas, and other obstacles associated with their past and…

Crime & Legal
4
Goodworks Inc

To assist women upon release

Human Services
5
The Liberty Initiative Inc

Work to end mass incarceration led by the voices of the families and individuals of those directly impacted. we envision a community that centers safety, prevention of harm, and alternatives to incarceration.

Crime & Legal
6
Life After Justice

Life After Justice (LAJ) fights to free the wrongfully convicted and provides support in reclaiming their lives after justice. Created by exonerees, the majority exoneree-led Board of Directors' approach is rooted in the knowledge,…

Crime & Legal
7
Prison Policy Initiative

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

Civil Rights
8
Out for Justice Inc

Out for Justice Inc. OFJ is an organization comprised of individuals who are directly or indirectly impacted by the criminal justice system advocating for the reform of policies & practicesthat adversely affect successful reentry to…

Crime & Legal
9
Unapologetically Hers

support for incarcerated individuals

Civil Rights
10
Initiate Justice Action

To end mass incarceration in CA by mobilizing the political power of people impacted by the prison system.

Crime & Legal
11
After Innocence

After Innocence provides free re-entry assistance to individuals nationwide who have been released from prison after having been convicted of crimes they did not in fact commit, and advocates with them for a justice system that is more…

Crime & Legal
12
Perfect

Perfect Inc. empowers formerly incarcerated women to achieve success while they transition back to their community by providing training and paid internships that result in guaranteed employment with fair pay and benefits.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Vermont Freedom Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 7 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%16%<5yr14%45%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%18%<5yr14%43%5–10yr19%24%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%2%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 16% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 6% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/34
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,531

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

26 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. 26 of the 34 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
15/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC — $275,000 · OtherFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INCSTEP BEYOND WOMEN AND GIRLS INC — $120,000 · OtherSTEP BEYOND WOMEN AND GIRLS INCCHANGE COMES NOW INC — $109,780 · OtherCHANGE COMES NOW INCWOMEN AND GIRLS IN SISTERHOOD FOR HEALING INC — $90,000 · OtherWOMEN AND GIRLS IN SISTERHOOD FOR HEALING INCThe Remedy Project Inc — $70,000 · OtherThe Remedy Project IncEMPOWERMENT BEFORE DURING AND AFTER INC — $60,000 · OtherEMPOWERMENT BEFORE DURING AND AFTER INCRESIST INC — $55,000 · OtherRESIST INCFREE HEARTS INC — $50,000 · Other+8 more — $125,000 · Other+8 moreWOMEN AGAINST MASS INCARCERATION IN — $163,000 · Crime & LegalWOMEN AGAINST MASS I…NEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC — $90,000 · Crime & LegalNEW BEGINNINGS REENT…HOMIES UNIDOS INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalHOMIES UNIDOS INCAlliance of Families for Justice Inc — $25,000 · Crime & LegalAlliance of Families…VERMONT FREEDOM FUND INC — $20,000 · Crime & LegalVERMONT FREEDOM FUND…MOTHERS IN CHARGE — $50,000 · Human ServicesWITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION INC — $45,000 · Human ServicesWE ARE BETTER TOGETHER WARREN DANIEL HAIRSTON PROJECT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS — $20,000 · Human ServicesLIFE AFTER RELEASE INC — $65,000 · Community ImprovementWhy Not Prosper Inc — $25,000 · Community ImprovementTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Community ImprovementWomen's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc — $89,000 · Civil RightsILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR REENTRY — $25,000 · Civil RightsJustice For Housing Inc — $65,000 · Housing & ShelterTALK 2 ME FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterA LITTLE PIECE OF LIGHT INC — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $60,000 · Environment
Other$954,780Crime & Legal$323,000Human Services$140,000Community Improvement$115,000Civil Rights$114,000Housing & Shelter$85,000Environment$60,000

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 budgetFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC — $275,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetWOMEN AGAINST MASS INCARCERATION IN — $163,000 over 2y, 87% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS REENTRY SERVICES INC — $90,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetWomen's Justice & Freedom Initiative Inc — $89,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetThe Remedy Project Inc — $70,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRESIST INC — $55,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetWITNESS TO MASS INCARCERATION INC — $45,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetWE ARE BETTER TOGETHER WARREN DANIEL HAIRSTON PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWhy Not Prosper Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW DIMENSIONS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetILLINOIS ALLIANCE FOR REENTRY — $25,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetTHE REACHING EDUCATING FOR COMMUNITY HOPE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetAlliance of Families for Justice Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE ORDINARY PEOPLE SOCIETY TOPS — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetA SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHow Our Lives Link Altogether Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncNY28.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: NEO Philanthropy Inc · Solidago Foundation · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc · A New Way of Life Reentry Project · The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc · Wild Geese Foundation Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · New York Foundation · The Tow Foundation Inc

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 National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2023
2021222324
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc55% of income from government
  • Justice for Housing Inc22% of income from government
  • Resist Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY2024

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.

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 34 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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