Washington · Nonprofit
Civil Survival Project
Civil Survival Project (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,546,055 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($717,596). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.6M
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $1.5M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Civil Survival Project does
Mission
Civil Survival organizes system-impacted people, provides legal representation and reentry support, and advocates for policy reform to restore opportunity to communities harmed by the criminal legal system in Washington State.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
In 2024, Civil Survival provided legal representation in 1,366 cases. Our team waived over $1.3 million in LFOs and successfully vacated 345 convictions. We appeared in 64 different courts across Washington and continued to offer accessible legal support, including 102 consultations through our Attorney Office Hours program. We also provided 213 criminal history reports to help individuals understand and navigate their records. In 2024, our team also added a Reentry Resource Navigator to assist legal clients with other reentry needs?playing a key role in empowering individuals impacted by the criminal legal system and expanding access to essential reentry services, ultimately helping clients overcome the challenges of reentry and build successful futures.
$717,287 spentof which $935,953 as grants40% of program spendingDuring its third year of operation, Civil Survival?s Blake Civil Impacts Project helped low-income Washingtonians vacate 86 unconstitutional drug possession convictions under State v. Blake and obtain LFO refunds. In addition to direct legal representation, Civil Survival distributed education materials to assist the public in obtaining a Blake vacation without an attorney. We also maintained a guide on its website that allows people to determine whether they have a Blake conviction. Civil Survival brought Blake information into the community, sharing resources with hundreds of people at community events and meetings.
$660,060 spentof which $863,650 as grants37% of program spendingIn 2024, Civil Survival?s advocacy team advanced several key legislative and budget priorities to promote equity and expand opportunity for individuals impacted by the criminal legal system. We helped secure the passage of major bills including SB 5974, which eliminates all juvenile LFOs by 2027, and SB 5998, which aligns vacate eligibility timelines for misdemeanors and felonies. We also supported legislation to provide state IDs upon release (HB 2099), expand gate money access (SB 5893), and ensure lived experience is represented on legislative committees (HB 1541). Our 2024 Community Empowerment Week brought together over 100 people from across the state for policy education, legislative meetings, and a DREAM rally featuring the voices of incarcerated individuals. Throughout the year, we hosted 47 Game Changer meetings to provide peer support, civic education, and legal resources, and offered over 100 ?Ask a Lawyer? consultations. Through our leadership in the Free the Vote coalition, we distributed voting rights materials to all 39 jails in Washington, registered and pre-registered voters in youth prisons, and reached over 27,000 people through direct outreach and digital…
$398,193 spentof which $147,401 as grants22% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,775,540.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2022 to 2023, from $1.1M to $1.5M (+39%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2022 70% · 2023 71% · 2024 71% · 2025 78%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Civil Survival Project’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose $48k → $537k.
7 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 31% 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 Civil Survival Project’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
Civil Survival Project leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% 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 Civil Survival Project.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 84% · 2019 48% · 2020 45% · 2021 70% · 2022 80% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
57% of Civil Survival Project's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
86% of Civil Survival Project's grant income comes from Washington funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $483k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
Civil Survival Project has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,299 community improvement nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,299 community improvement nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Civil Survival Project
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 Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Civil Survival Project: 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 Civil Survival Project?
- Civil Survival Project (Washington) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,546,055 to it, the largest being INATAI FOUNDATION ($717,596). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Civil Survival Project have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $1,546,055 in grants to Civil Survival Project, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Civil Survival Project?
- INATAI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $717,596 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Civil Survival Project find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 13 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing