How much did VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC grant in FY2023?

Crime & Legal$19MHuman Services$14MHealth$3.3MInternational$3.2MCivil Rights$2.4MPublic Benefit$1.5MEducation$1.3MCommunity Improvement$1.0MPhilanthropy$445kOther$16M

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

reaching underservedunderserved victimsresource cerntercernter reachingresource reachingsafe

2020

backyards seeschedule partreaching underservedunderserved victimssee scheduleresource cerntercernter reaching

2021

resource reachingunderservedreachingunderserved victimsvictims underservedunderserved resourcemadeunwindingdeepening

2022

childrenlawcivileconomicimmigrationcatholiclegal advocacy

2023

childrens holisticholistic immigrationimmigration representationproblemsconviction historiesaimsfurther

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k2 grants · $18k
$10k–50k28 grants · $697k
$50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
$250k+18 grants · $12M

$55,278

Median grant

States reached

$256M

Total assets

Largest grants

ACTIVATING CHANGE$2,185,031
ACACIA CENTER FOR JUSTICE$1,700,000
MILPA$1,051,159
ESPERANZA IMMIGRANT RIGHTS PROJECT CATHOLICCHARITIES OF LOS ANGELES INC$946,174
IMMIGRATION CENTER FOR WOMEN$776,762
COMMUNITY JUSTICE ALLIANCE INC$757,013
CENTRAL AMERICA RESOURCE CENTER$619,652
PROJECT GUARDIANSHIP INC$429,000
KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE (KIND)$390,000
EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT$376,859
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND$353,864
EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER$352,432
NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER$346,640
CANAL ALLIANCE$332,250
BET TZEDEK LEGAL SERVICES$323,761

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $12.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 94% 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$36M · 101 repeat orgs$27M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2023, 60 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101

Total granted

$36M

$21M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%

+57%

Still filing today

88%

80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesCrime & LegalCivil RightsPublic BenefitEducationHealthOther

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

IJ
IMMIGRATION JUSTICE CORPS INC
2× · 2022–2023 · $3.7M · revenue +115%
AC
ACACIA CENTER FOR JUSTICE
2× · 2022–2023 · $3.3M · revenue +1475%
AC
ACTIVATING CHANGE
2× · 2022–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +53% · 81% of their budget

Funded once

TF
THE FLORENCE IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE RIGHTS PROJECTgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.7M · revenue +338%
AF
ABA FUND FOR JUSTICE & EDUCATIONgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $1.5M · revenue +37%
NI
NATIONAL IMMIGRANT JUSTICE CENTER
one grant, 2022 · $1.3M · revenue -39%

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.

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

Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center JAC pilots an innovative model that advances the rights of immigrant communities by connecting cutting-edge impact litigation and compelling narrative and communications content. The purpose of JAC is to advance the…

Civil Rights

Asian Americans Advancing Justice -

The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…

Crime & Legal

Public Interest Law Initiative

PILI engages, inspires and empowers those advancing equal access to justice.

Crime & Legal

Advocates for Immigrant Survivors

AIS's mission is to provide immigration legal services and social services to aid survivors in accessing the rights to justice, dignity, and restoration. AIS's main programs are our Immigration Legal Services Program, our Case Management…

Human Services

Pangea Legal Services

Pangea's mission is to provide deportation defense services, advocate for policy change, and provide education and legal empowerment for our immigrant communities.

Crime & Legal

OneJustice

Strengthen the legal services sector's expertise and capacity to advance justice and equity.

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California Collaborative for Immigrant

Ccij utilizes coordination, advocacy, and legal services to fight for the liberation of immigrants in detention in california.

—

Inner City Law Center

Fighting for justice and housing by providing legal representation for the homeless and working poor.

Crime & Legal

Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc

Lawyers for civil rights, inc. (the organization") is a nonprofit, nonpartisan legal organization that fosters equal opportunity and fights discrimination on behalf of people of color immigrants and low-income people. the organization…

Crime & Legal

Immigration Reform Law Institute Inc

To promote diligent enforcement of immigration laws in keeping with congressional intent.

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Texas Immigration Law Council

It is the mission of the Texas Immigration Law Council to protect and promote the basic rights of immigrants and refugees of all nationalities within Texas.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Immigrant Rights Project and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%4/223

the rest of the field

11%

206,160/1,819,342

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.

05the grantee network

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

190/197

Grantees still filing

162/197

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Crime & Legal$19,497,215Other$19,150,919Human Services$13,643,628Health$3,311,635International$3,191,646Civil Rights$2,429,520Public Benefit$1,534,040

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.

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.

Equal Justice WorksDC67.5× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Equal Justice Works · Borealis Philanthropy · Immigrant Justice Corps Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Fwdus Education Fund Inc · Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc · Immigrant Legal Resource Center · New Venture Fund · The Skadden Foundation · Hispanics in Philanthropy · Public Welfare Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors 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 organisation VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC 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

6get no government money at all

5rely on government for over half their income

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: ACTIVATING CHANGE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 880922290 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 ACTIVATING CHANGE, 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 8 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 81% 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 Vera Institute of Justice Inc?

Find your warmest path to Vera Institute of Justice Inc 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.

VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vera Institute of Justice Inc?

More from the funding graph

VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

197 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vera Institute of Justice Inc?

More from the funding graph