Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Coalition for Public Safety
Coalition for Public Safety (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,224,075 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,333,944). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2023
- $327
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $0
What Coalition for Public Safety does
Mission
The mission of the Corporation is to maximize the effective and fair use of limited public resources in the criminal justice system.
As stated on its FY2023 Form 990.
Programs
Education: The Coalition for Public Safety (CPS), the nation's largest bipartisan coalition addressing criminal justice reform, leveraged its partners to launch educational campaigns geared towards the general public, advocates, law enforcement, and policy leaders. CPS worked across the political spectrum to pursue a comprehensive set of federal, state and local criminal justice reforms to reduce prison populations and associated costs; end the systemic problems of overcriminalization and overincarceration particularly in low-income communities and communities of color; ensure swift and fair outcomes for both the accused and the victim; and make communities safer by reducing recidivism and breaking down barriers faced by those returning home after detention or incarceration.CPS partnered with other nonprofit organizations to host a series of virtual events to build public awareness for the need for criminal justice reform. The events, which included webinars and virtual community events, worked to reach diverse audiences and share information on key criminal justice issuesCPS also disseminated criminal justice information through media interviews, informational meetings with…
$849 spentof which $849 as grants55% of program spendingCoalition Building / Outreach: The Coalition for Public Safety (CPS) continued engagement with core partners to form a bipartisan coalition of organizations that represent diverse memberships. CPS worked with its partners and other key criminal justice advocates to develop common principals and goals on justice issues, promoting a dialogue with their respective members about criminal justice issues.
$695 spentof which $695 as grants45% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,544.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
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 $2.1M to $0 (−100%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 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
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose $1.5M → $3.0M.
1 of 5 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 45% 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 Coalition for Public Safety’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
Coalition for Public Safety leans on a few funders — its largest provides 45% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
45% 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 Coalition for Public Safety.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 100% · 2019 91% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% — 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
Coalition for Public Safety draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 3 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $7.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state 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.
Organizations like Coalition for Public Safety
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, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
472% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
34%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Justice Action Network · exempt
- Justice Action Network Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Coalition for Public Safety: 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 Coalition for Public Safety?
- Coalition for Public Safety (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,224,075 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,333,944). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Coalition for Public Safety have?
- IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $16,224,075 in grants to Coalition for Public Safety, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Coalition for Public Safety?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $7,333,944 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Coalition for Public Safety find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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