· Public charity
National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform
The NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM (nicjr) is a non-profit organization providing technical assistance, consulting, research, and organizational development in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice, youth development, and violence prevention.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $1.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MENTORING CENTER | $275,000 |
| NURTURY INC | $250,000 |
| OPERATION GOOD FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ | $250,000 |
| INNERCITY COLLABORATIVE COMM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| END THE VIOLENCE | $250,000 |
| COMMUNITY VIOLENCE LEGAL NETWORK | $190,000 |
| WESTCARE WISCONSIN INC | $187,500 |
| ECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION | $185,000 |
| ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $160,000 |
| POSITIVE COMMUNICATION PRACTICES INC | $160,000 |
| YAAY ME INC | $150,000 |
| UNITING GARDEN HOMES INC | $125,000 |
| HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC | $105,000 |
| ASHA FAMILY SERVICES INC | $100,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $950k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $290k · revenue +17%- YAYOUTH ALIVE3× · 2023–2025 · $268k · revenue +25%
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC2× · 2023–2024 · $240k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CMCOMMUNITY MEDIATION PROGRAM INCone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue -55% · 25% of their budget
- WOWE OUR US UNITY ENGAGEMENT MENS MOVEMENTone grant, 2024 · $180k · revenue +14%
- WIWORKFORCE INCone grant, 2024 · $160k · revenue +23%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Youth
.Renounce Denounce Gang Intervention Program is a 10-week cognitive behavioral program for at risk and proven risk youth ages 10-25 who are in gangs who carry weapons or who commit other violent crimes. Our Violence Interrupters are used…
Mentoring program for gang involved youth. to provide support to theirsiblings and families by helping them reach their goals and expandingsocial networks and life experiences, followed by developing career skillsto sustain their…
Crime and communities violence interve
Goso partners with people impacted by arrest and incarceration on a journey of education, employment and emotional wellbeing and collaborates with nyc communities to support a culture of nonviolence.
Youth Mentoring Program /Community Advocacy Agency
Bridging the Gap HP NFP aims to reduce violence through incident tracking, mediations, canvasing and program service delivery for high risk individuals. It is the goal of the organization to create a healthier and beloved community through…
To provide violence prevention services youth development programs and case management and supportive resources that promote saftey stability and long term growth
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
To encompass a faith community based program that offers alternatives to detention, incarceration by connecting court-involved youth with positive resources in the local community. Provide supportive community services to justice-involved…
Resilient Agency Resilient is a 501 3 non-profit organization dedicated to providing youth development and community intervention services to underprivileged residents most impacted by violence to strengthen personal resilience develop…
To prepare, train, and connect returning, unemployed, and underemployed citizens to living wage jobs and to build a vibrant public life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eclectic Soul Voices Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Girassol Wellness 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 12 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 24% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
35 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 39 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Community & Youth Outreach Inc DBA Oakland California Youth Outreach ↗
- Who funds THE MENTORING CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ALIVE ↗
- Who funds ECLECTIC SOUL VOICES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION GOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY COLLABORATIVE COMM D ↗
- Who funds END THE VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF GREATER INDIANAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds WESTCARE WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDIATION PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WE OUR US UNITY ENGAGEMENT MENS MOVEMENT ↗
- Who funds YAAY ME INC ↗
- Who funds Positive Communication Practices Inc ↗
- Who funds ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORKFORCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Thomas Ridleys 1 Like Me Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITING GARDEN HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MILWAUKEE COMMUNITY CROSSROADS INC ↗
- Who funds TURN UP KNOX ↗
- Who funds INDY PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Brightwood Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRIGGER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NEW BREED OF YOUTH MENTORING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Black Man Lab Foundation ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY MUSLIM ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BUILDING OPP FOR SELF-SUFFICIENCY ↗
- Who funds GIRASSOL WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds CURE VIOLENCE ATLANTA ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES FOR PEACE AND URBAN UNITY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Indianapolis Foundation Inc · The California Wellness Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The California Endowment · Akonadi Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Panorama Global · Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Inc · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Central Indiana Community Foundation Inc · The San Francisco 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 National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform 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.
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Mediation Program Inc — 17% of income from government
- Center for Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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