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URBAN JUSTICE CENTER
The URBAN JUSTICE CENTER was established to engage in legal advocacy on behalf of the homeless, indigent, disenfranchised, and those members of the general public who have been deprived of civil and economic rights in the new york city metropolitan area.
$587k
Granted FY2022
7
Grants
3
Communities
$298k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2022.
Human Services$10MCivil Rights$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.3MCrime & Legal$877kCommunity Improvement$773kInternational$78kEducation$26kOther$298k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
—
2020
low-income
2021
—
2022
educationpartnervaluesanti-oppressionpro-blacknessredistributiondivestment
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2022 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $57k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $231k
- $250k+1 grant · $298k
$26,001
Median grant
3
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT$297,905
- WRITE YOUR WAY OUT INC$175,000
- LASTMILE$56,050
- PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND$26,001
- FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$20,426
- 911 HEALTH CHARITY LLC$11,021
- NEW YORK ROAD RUNNER$5,530
02The need
04
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 (FY19–20, $10.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — 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.
46%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.1M · 6 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
6
5
Total granted
$7.1M
$8.1M
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+22%
+388%
Still filing today
83%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalInternationalOther
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
- WRWORTH RISES (FKA CORRECTIONS ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT)2× · 2019–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +129%
- VAVETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +22%
PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $78k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IRINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $7.1M · revenue +82% · 54% of their budget
DETROIT JUSTICE CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $877k · revenue +324% · 82% of their budget- TBTHE BRAVE HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $68k · revenue +13939% · 39% 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
Federal Defenders of New York Inc
The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.
Crime & Legal
2
Communities United for Police Reform Action Fund
CPRAF works to end discrimination and abusive policing in NYC, promotes effective public policy solution that promotes safety for all and strenghten police accountability.
Community Improvement
3
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc
Provides legal assistance to farmworkers and other low wage workers in New York State.
Crime & Legal
4
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
5
The Bronx Defenders
The bronx defenders provides legal representation and other related services to more than 20,000 low-income people in the bronx, every year, free of charge.
Crime & Legal
6
Equal Justice Center
The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…
Civil Rights
7
New Jersey Policy Perspective Inc
New jersey policy perspective (njpp) is a nonpartisan think tank that drives policy change to advance economic, social, and racial justice through evidence-based, independent research, analysis, and strategic communications.
Arts & Culture
8
Legal Services Nyc
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
Crime & Legal
9
Disability Advocates Inc
Provide legal assistance, information, referral and advocacy.drny is the designated protection and advocacy system for persons with disabilities in new york.
Public Safety & Disaster
10
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc
Recruit and train legal advocates committed to immigrant justice.
Crime & Legal
11
Riders Alliance Inc
Riders alliance is fighting for a world-class public transit system that meets the everyday needs of all new yorkers and takes us toward a more equitable city and sustainable future.
Civil Rights
12
Her Justice Inc
Provide free legal help to women living in poverty in nyc, as well as address systematic legal boundaries. her justice provides legal assistance that helps women achieve stability.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Refugee Assistance Project and the most unlike its peers is New York Road Runners Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$10,341,463Civil Rights$1,629,225Philanthropy$1,338,026Crime & Legal$877,000Community Improvement$773,094Other$297,601International$77,733Education$26,000
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 INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSITANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WORTH RISES (FKA CORRECTIONS ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT) ↗
- Who funds VETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DETROIT JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC ( DBA TAKE ROOT JUSTICE ) ↗
- Who funds PEACE DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BRAVE HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OLD PRO PROJECT - SOCIAL GOOD FUND ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SUVEILLANCE TECHNOLOGY OVERSIGHT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK ROAD RUNNER ↗
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 Charitable Foundation IncDC15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ford Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 organisation URBAN JUSTICE CENTER 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DETROIT JUSTICE CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.2× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 822295339 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on DETROIT JUSTICE CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 17 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Urban Justice Center?
Find your warmest path to Urban Justice Center through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines