How much does The Sentencing Project give?

The Sentencing Project reported 6 grants totaling $95,513 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.

What does The Sentencing Project fund?

By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (75%), Public Benefit (14%), Civil Rights (5%).

Who are The Sentencing Project's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest ($130k), Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($60k), Center for Community Alternatives Inc ($30k).

Does The Sentencing Project fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Sentencing Project?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, NEO Philanthropy Inc, Tides Foundation.

Where is The Sentencing Project based?

The Sentencing Project is based in DC.

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Washington, D.C. · Public charity

The Sentencing Project

Research and education on criminal justice policy issues, and advocacy for criminal justice reform.

$96k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 6
Grants FY2025: 12
Organizations funded FY2024: 58%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $20,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 16; FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 6
Total assets, FY2025: $10M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 58% of the organizations The Sentencing Project funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Crime & LegalCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	6	$95k	83%
FY2024	12	$203k	58%
FY2023	16	$274k	63%
FY2022	13	$167k	92%
FY2021	8	$110k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$564kPublic Benefit$105kCivil Rights$40kEnvironment$20kCommunity Improvement$15kHuman Services$10k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$130,000	2	1%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Center for Community Alternatives Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Progress Now Education	$25,000	2	0%
Center for Life Without Parole Studies	$25,000	1	n/a
New England Innocence Project	$25,000	1	1%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Rhode Island Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Together Louisiana	$25,000	1	2%
Stand in for Nebraska	$24,000	2	n/a
Criminal Justice Policy Coalition Inc	$22,000	2	40%

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All grantees of The Sentencing Project by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest	$130,000	2	1%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$60,000	3	0%
Center for Community Alternatives Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Progress Now Education	$25,000	2	0%
Center for Life Without Parole Studies	$25,000	1	n/a
New England Innocence Project	$25,000	1	1%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Rhode Island Inc	$25,000	2	1%
Together Louisiana	$25,000	1	2%
Stand in for Nebraska	$24,000	2	n/a
Criminal Justice Policy Coalition Inc	$22,000	2	40%
Fusion Partnership Inc	$20,000	1	1%
New Life Worship Center	$20,000	2	n/a
Iowa Justice Action Network	$20,000	2	n/a
Black Community Collective	$20,000	1	n/a
Youth Law Center	$20,000	1	1%
Chicago Votes	$20,000	1	1%
Dwight Hall at Yale	$20,000	1	0%
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Drop Lwop New England	$20,000	1	23%
Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit	$20,000	1	2%
Initiate Justice	$20,000	2	1%
The Ole Education Fund	$20,000	2	0%
Celwop Inc	$15,000	1	n/a
Wyoming Childrens Law Center	$15,000	1	5%
Together Making a Better Community	$15,000	1	4%
TeamChild	$15,000	1	0%
BRIDGE Maryland Inc	$10,000	1	5%
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Oregon Justice Resource Center	$10,000	1	0%
Sylvia Woods Josephine Wyatt and Clarice Durham	$10,000	1	8%
The PENNFranchise Project	$10,000	1	n/a
Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children	$10,000	1	0%
Healing Our Land Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Southwest Organizing Project	$10,000	1	1%
Felony Murder Elimination Project	$10,000	1	3%
Living Beyond Bars	$10,000	1	n/a
Abolitionist Law Center	$10,000	1	1%
Safe & Just Michigan	$10,000	1	1%
Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Ohio Justice and Policy Center	$10,000	1	0%
Common Cause Education Fund	$10,000	1	0%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc	$8,000	1	0%

The Sentencing Project supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 32 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 32.

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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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover 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.

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About The Sentencing Project

How much does The Sentencing Project give?: The Sentencing Project reported 6 grants totaling $95,513 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The Sentencing Project fund?: By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (75%), Public Benefit (14%), Civil Rights (5%).
Who are The Sentencing Project's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest ($130k), Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc ($60k), Center for Community Alternatives Inc ($30k).
Does The Sentencing Project fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Sentencing Project?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, NEO Philanthropy Inc, Tides Foundation.
Where is The Sentencing Project based?: The Sentencing Project is based in DC.