California · Nonprofit
ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE
ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,791,452 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($32,257,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $60M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $116M
- Net assets
- $65M
What Alliance for Safety and Justice does
Mission
Just safe's mission is to educate the public about the needs of communities most impacted by crime, violence, and incarceration; and promote new safety solutions through community-building, leadership development, grassroots mobilization, and advocacy. We support a range of new safety solutions, including reducing the overuse of incarceration, and expanding violence prevention, community health, rehabilitation, economic mobility, and trauma recovery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
On its FY2024 return the organization reported starting a significant new program.
In fy25, just safe significantly expanded our scaling safety program, which aims to build a new, resident-powered public safety ecosystem across the u.s. By combining catalytic investments in community safety solutions with capacity building support, municipal advocacy and deep coordination among diverse stakeholders
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 2).
Californians for safety and justice (csj) just safe's flagship state-based program engages in public education, issue advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and strategic communications. Csj aims to move california's justice system away from overuse of incarceration and towards approaches that stop crime and increase community safety, wellbeing, and access to economic opportunity.
$3,234,957 spentof which $40,000 as grants9% of program spendingCrime survivors speak (css) is a membership program for victims of crime that is educating the public, building community together, and advocating for trauma recovery and smart public safety solutions. Css provides support, community building, and leadership development opportunities to diverse victims of crime, elevates their experiences and voices through outreach, storytelling, public education, and advocacy to build support for victim services and a balanced approach to safety.
$6,887,023 spentof which $107,150 as grants18% of program spendingScaling safety is a collaboration between Alliance for Safety and Justice and community-based public safety collective to invest in community-based public safety programs in five cities, document their impact, and promote replication nationwide. Selected by ted's the audacious project as a 2024 cohort grantee, scaling safety is focused on scaling up and supporting the growth of resident-powered programs that provide trauma recovery, crisis assistance, and violence interruption services. These programs are proven to save lives and heal neighborhoods.
$15,355,787 spentof which $14,218,518 as grants41% of program spendingTimedone provides support, community-building, and leadership development opportunities to diverse people with old records, and elevates their experiences and voices through outreach, storytelling, public education, and advocacy to build support for economic mobility and a balanced approach to public safety.
$11,990,656 spentof which $249,648 as grants32% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $37,468,423.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $52M to $79M (+52%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
90% of ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Robert Rooks
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 20 funders, grant income rose $13M → $29M.
14 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 71% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
82% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 40% · 2022 25% · 2023 81% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
71% of ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $34M that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside California, across 8 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $82M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $190 on record.
- REFUNDS - GENERAL $190
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE?
- ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE (California) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $115,791,452 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($32,257,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 71% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $115,791,452 in grants to ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $32,257,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALLIANCE FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 39 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing