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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 FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$232k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$232,284
Median grant
1
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY LAW JUSTICE CENTER$232,284
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–20, $10.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSITANCE PROJECT INC: $3.1M → 17%ASYLUM SEEKERS ASSITANCE PROJECT INC: $90k → 17%INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $7.1M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.8M · 6 repeat orgs$8.3M to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$8.8M
$8.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+82%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Civil RightsHuman ServicesCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AS
    ASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $3.2M · revenue +13% · 53% of their budget
  • WR
    WORTH RISES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $1.6M · revenue +129%
  • VA
    VETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • IR
    INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7.1M · revenue +82% · 54% of their budget
  • Detroit Justice Centergraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $877k · revenue +324% · 82% of their budget
  • WY
    WRITE YOUR WAY OUT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $175k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Youth Represent Inc

Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…

Crime & Legal
2
Worker Justice Center of New York Inc

Worker Justice Center of New York, Inc. (WJCNY) pusues juistice for those denied hian rights, with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional…

Crime & Legal
3
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
4
Immigrant Justice Corps Inc

Ijc's mission is to recruit, train, and populate the immigration field with the highest quality legal advocates to create a new generation of leaders with a lifelong commitment to immigrant justice.

Crime & Legal
5
Detention Watch Network

Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.

Human Services
6
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
7
New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc

Nylpi's mission is to advance equality and civil rights, with a focus on health justice, disability rights and environmental justice, through the power of community lawyering and partnerships with the private bar.

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8
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
9
Communities Resist Inc

We join our clients in the struggle to organize, assert their rights and protect their homes. we work to ensure that community voices are centered in the decisions that impact their lives and neighborhoods.

Housing & Shelter
10
New York County Defender Services Inc

New york county defender services (nycds) is a not-for-profit corporation, incorporated under the laws of new york state. as such, many of its obligations are defined by law. nycds' purpose is to represent indigent persons in resolving…

Crime & Legal
11
Federal Defenders of New York Inc

The organization provides representation and related defense services to indigent persons charged with federal crimes.

Crime & Legal
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund for the City of New York Inc; the most unlike its peers is Queens Economic Development Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC: $7,108,437 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INCASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $3,233,026 · Human ServicesASYLUM SEEKER ADVOCACY PROJECT INCFAMILY JUSTICE LAW CENTER INC: $1,813,726 · Crime & LegalFAMILY JUSTICE LA…Detroit Justice Center: $877,000 · Crime & LegalDetroit Justice C…WORTH RISES INC: $1,551,518 · Civil RightsWORTH RISE…BRAVE HOUSE INC: $68,092 · Civil Rights+1 more: $9,615 · Civil RightsVETERAN ADVOCACY PROJECT INC: $1,317,600 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,426 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PROJECT INC: $773,094 · Community ImprovementQUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 · Community ImprovementWRITE YOUR WAY OUT INC: $175,000 · OtherLASTMILE: $106,050 · Other911 HEALTH CHARITY LLC: $11,021 · Other+1 more: $5,530 · OtherPeace Development Fund: $77,733 · InternationalSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $26,000 · Education
Human Services$10,341,463Crime & Legal$2,690,726Civil Rights$1,629,225Philanthropy$1,338,026Community Improvement$833,094Other$297,601International$77,733Education$26,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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 budgetPeace Development Fund: $77,733 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBRAVE HOUSE INC: $68,092 over 1y, 39% of budgetQUEENS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $60,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $26,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 Charitabl…The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Robin Hood FoundationTides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Urban Justice Center funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urban Justice Center. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    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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