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The Sentencing Project

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

$204k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2021–2024.

Crime & Legal$564kPublic Benefit$105kCivil Rights$40kEnvironment$20kCommunity Improvement$15kHuman Services$10k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OK APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE$65,000
DROP LWOP NEW ENGLAND$20,000
COLORADO CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM COALITION$20,000
CELWOP$15,000
TEAMCHILD$15,000
OLE EDUCATION FUND$10,000
CONNECTICUT JUSTICE ALLIANCESEE$10,000
HEALING OUR LAND INC$10,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC$10,000
PENNFRANCHISE PROJECT$10,000
INITIATE JUSTICE$10,000
TEXAS CIVIL RIGHTS PROJECT$8,000
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 (FY22–23, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $10k → 16%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: $10k → 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

WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MD
NM
DC
LA
TX

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$391k · 11 repeat orgs$363k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
19

Total granted

$391k
$265k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+29%

Still filing today

64%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Crime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • NA
    NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
    2× · 2023–2024 · $130k · revenue +50%
  • SA
    SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $60k · revenue +53%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE STUDIES
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TL
    Together Louisianagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +157%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +169%

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
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
2
Fund for Justice

Fund for Justice is a nationally connected social impact research and advocacy organization that works to achieve fundamental, systemic reform by addressing policies and practicies that prevent individuals from reaching their full…

Crime & Legal
3
The Promise of Justice Initiative

The promise of justice initiative works to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system at the intersection of impact litigation, direct services and community engagement.

Crime & Legal
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
5
Prison Policy Initiative

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

Civil Rights
6
Choosing Justice Initiative

Representing defendants in their court cases at no cost to the defendants.

Crime & Legal
7
District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal
8
Los Angeles Innocence Project Inc

The purpose is to exonerate the wrongly convicted, uncover and remedy past misuse of evidence in the courtroom, and improve the dialogue among stakeholders in the criminal legal system to prevent future injustice.

Crime & Legal
9
Equal Justice Society

The Equal Justice Society (EJS) is transforming the nations consciousness on racethrough law, social science, and the arts. EJS works to dismantle structural andinstitutional racism to advance robust equal protection under the Fourteenth…

Civil Rights
10
Arizona Capital Representation Project

ACRP is a non-profit legal services organization that assists indigent persons facing the death penalty and sentenced to death in Arizona through direct representation, pro-bono consulting services and training for capital defense…

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11
Justice League

The mission of Ohio Crime Victim Justice Center (OCVJC) is to ensure that the constitutional and statutory rights of Ohio crime victims are protected and enforced in state and federal jurisdictions in all 88 Ohio counties. To fulfill this…

Crime & Legal
12
Alliance for Justice

Alliance for justice builds the strength of progressive movements by training and educating nonprofit organizations on advocacy, while harnessing their collective power to transform our state and federal courts.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Abolitionist Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Together Louisiana. 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 17 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%9%<5yr14%27%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%8%<5yr14%26%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%8%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
5%
2/37
the rest of the field
13%
240,394/1,819,528

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

29 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. 29 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $130,000 · Crime & LegalNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PU…NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT — $25,000 · Crime & LegalNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECTCRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY COALITION INC — $22,000 · Crime & LegalCRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY COALITION INCYOUTH LAW CENTER — $20,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH LAW CENTERColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit — $20,000 · Crime & LegalColorado Criminal Justice Reform CoalitDROP LWOP NEW ENGLAND — $20,000 · Crime & LegalDROP LWOP NEW ENGLANDINITIATE JUSTICE — $20,000 · Crime & LegalINITIATE JUSTICEWYOMING CHILDRENS LAW CENTER — $15,000 · Crime & LegalABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $10,000 · Crime & LegalAlliance of Families for Justice Inc — $10,000 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC — $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVE…CENTER FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE STUDIES — $25,000 · OtherCENTER FOR LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE S…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $25,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION F…STAND IN FOR NEBRASKA — $24,000 · OtherSTAND IN FOR NEBRASKANEW LIFE WORSHIP CENTER — $20,000 · OtherNEW LIFE WORSHIP CENTERIOWA JUSTICE ACTION NETWORK — $20,000 · OtherIOWA JUSTICE ACTION NETWORKCELWOP INC — $15,000 · OtherCELWOP INCPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION — $10,000 · OtherLIVING BEYOND BARS — $10,000 · OtherNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children — $10,000 · OtherHEALING OUR LAND INC — $10,000 · OtherThe PENNFranchise Project — $10,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $8,000 · OtherChicago Votes — $20,000 · Civil RightsChicago VotesTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE OLE EDUCA…BRIDGE Maryland Inc — $10,000 · Civil RightsBRIDGE Maryla…SYLVIA WOODS JOSEPHINE WYATT AND CLARICE DURHAM — $10,000 · Civil RightsSYLVIA WOODS …Oregon Justice Resource Center — $10,000 · Civil RightsOregon Justic…OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $10,000 · Civil RightsOHIO JUSTICE …FELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT — $10,000 · Civil RightsFELONY MURDER…SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $60,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AN…Together Louisiana — $25,000 · Public BenefitSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN — $10,000 · Public BenefitCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 · Public BenefitTogether Making a Better Community — $15,000 · Community ImprovementTeamChild — $15,000 · Community ImprovementTHE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC — $20,000 · Human Services
Crime & Legal$292,000Other$217,000Civil Rights$90,000Environment$60,000Public Benefit$45,000Community Improvement$30,000Human Services$20,000

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 budgetNEBRASKA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $130,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTogether Louisiana — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF RHODE ISLAND INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY COALITION INC — $22,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetYOUTH LAW CENTER — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChicago Votes — $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetColorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalit — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE OLE EDUCATION FUND — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDROP LWOP NEW ENGLAND — $20,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetINITIATE JUSTICE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTogether Making a Better Community — $15,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetTeamChild — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWYOMING CHILDRENS LAW CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPROGRESS NOW EDUCATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE & JUST MICHIGAN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBRIDGE Maryland Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSYLVIA WOODS JOSEPHINE WYATT AND CLARICE DURHAM — $10,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetOregon Justice Resource Center — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMON CAUSE EDUCATION FUND — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFELONY MURDER ELIMINATION PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlliance of Families for Justice Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC — $8,000 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.

Amalgamated Charitabl…NEO Philanthropy IncTides FoundationNew Venture FundVital Projects Fund I…ImpactassetsincPublic Welfare Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Proteus Fund IncFoundation to Promote…Skyline FoundationThe Tow Foundation Inc
Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC23.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Vital Projects Fund Inc · Impactassetsinc · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Skyline 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 Sentencing Project 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Oregon Justice Resource Center — 26% of income from government
  • New England Innocence Project — 12% 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)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 37 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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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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