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Urban Justice Center

The organization 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.

$232k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$232,284
Largest grant, FY2025
$232,284
Organizations funded a year
1 to 6
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$35M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Urban Justice Center funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’24
Civil RightsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving1$232k0%
FY20242$1.6M100%
FY20226$566k67%
FY20213$613k67%
FY20205$5.8M60%
FY20193$7.4M100%
FY20181$877kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Crime & Legal$13MHuman Services$3.2MCommunity Improvement$561kEducation$175kCivil Rights$129kPublic Safety & Disaster$117kInternational$26kHousing & Shelter$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$7,108,437154%
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc$3,233,026253%
Family Justice Law Center Inc$1,813,7262n/a
Worth Rises Inc$1,551,5182n/a
Veteran Advocacy Project Inc$1,317,6002n/a
Detroit Justice Center$877,000182%
Community Development Project Inc$773,09426%
Write Your Way Out Inc$175,0001n/a
Lastmile$106,0502n/a
Brave House Inc$68,092139%
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All grantees of Urban Justice Center by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc$7,108,437154%
Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc$3,233,026253%
Family Justice Law Center Inc$1,813,7262n/a
Worth Rises Inc$1,551,5182n/a
Veteran Advocacy Project Inc$1,317,6002n/a
Detroit Justice Center$877,000182%
Community Development Project Inc$773,09426%
Write Your Way Out Inc$175,0001n/a
Lastmile$106,0502n/a
Brave House Inc$68,092139%
Queens Economic Development Corporation$60,00012%
Fund for the City of New York Inc$20,42610%
911 Health Charity LLC$11,0211n/a
Surveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc$9,61512%
New York Road Runners Inc$5,53010%

Where it is load-bearing

Urban Justice Center supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInternational Refugee Assistance Project Inc: $7,108,437 over 1y, 54% of budgetAsylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc: $3,233,026 over 2y, 53% of budgetDetroit Justice Center: $877,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetCommunity Development Project Inc: $773,094 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetBrave House Inc: $68,092 over 1y, 39% of budgetQueens Economic Development Corporation: $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFund for the City of New York Inc: $20,426 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSurveillance Technology Oversight Project Inc: $9,615 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNew York Road Runners Inc: $5,530 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 9.

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 IncDC14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Robin Hood Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Urban Justice Center

How much does Urban Justice Center give?
Urban Justice Center reported 1 grants totaling $232,285 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 6 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Urban Justice Center fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (75%), Human Services (19%), Community Improvement (3%).
Who are Urban Justice Center's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: International Refugee Assistance Project Inc ($7.1M), Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc ($3.2M), Family Justice Law Center Inc ($1.8M).
Does Urban Justice Center fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Urban Justice Center?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
Where is Urban Justice Center based?
Urban Justice Center is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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