New York · Nonprofit
COMMON JUSTICE INC
COMMON JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,288,499 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,074,250). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.4M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $33M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Common Justice Inc does
Mission
Common justice develops and advances solutions to violent crime that transform the lives of those harmed and foster racial equity without relying on incarceration. Locally, we operate the first alternative-to-incarceration and victim service program in the united states that focuses on violent felonies in the adult courts. Nationally, we leverage the lessons from our direct service to transform the justice system through partnerships, advocacy, and elevating the experience and power of those most impacted. Rigorous and hopeful, we build practical strategies to hold people accountable for harm, break cycles of violence, and secure safety, healing and justice for survivors and their communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct services - we operated a restorative justice-based alternative to incarceration and victim service program for young people who have committed violent crime and those they harm in brooklyn, the bronx, and manhattan. Our work demonstrated that participatory, non-prison-based responses to violent crime can: break cycles of violence by providing dignified pathways to accountability for those responsible for harm and meaningful pathways to healing for those harmed; improve the mental health and wellbeing of crime survivors and provide and for more equitable services for young men of color and other under-served survivors; avert the damaging effects of incarceration for individuals and communities; and increase people's experience of fairness and safety in the aftermath of harm.
$2,973,529 spent51% of program spendingAdvocacy - common justice raised awareness about new york state's victim compensation program in order to eliminate barriers to access that survivors face. We expanded awareness that survivors are no longer required to report their harm to the police in order to be eligible for victim compensation. We have also worked to eliminate the state's contributory conduct policy, which bars survivors from receiving victim compensation if they or the loved one they lost to violence are deemed to have had a hand in their own harm. The organizing team also worked with community members to develop strategies that will change the way media outlets report on crime, violence and safety.
$989,341 spent17% of program spendingPartnerships & training - common justice worked to demonstrate that our interventions are possible and can be successful, creating space for others to do similar work across the country. We have laid the groundwork for replication and expansion by building national and local partnerships, especially in jurisdictions where violence is a central concern. We assessed potential sites through a collaborative process that considered alignment with our principles and key structural factors. Based on that assessment, we engaged partners at varying levels, ranging from full implementation of our model to broader field-building efforts.
$1,062,300 spentof which $100,000 as grants18% of program spendingCommunications - common justice worked to shift public narratives about violence by centering the experiences and perspectives of survivors and those directly impacted by the criminal legal system. We used media engagement, digital communications, public events, and creative projects to influence how violence and accountability are discussed. Our messaging is present across a wide range of platforms and audiences, aiming to reframe public discourse around safety, punishment, and alternatives to incarceration.
$844,786 spent14% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $5,869,956.
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 2021 to 2022, from $9.7M to $17M (+77%).
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: 2018 7% · 2019 12% · 2020 5% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 16% · 2024 24% · 2025 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of COMMON JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Danielle Sered
Executive director & presi
Board chair
Ian Fuller
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 26 funders, grant income rose $976k → $6.8M.
24 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 48% 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 COMMON JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 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
COMMON JUSTICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 COMMON JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 43% · 2019 46% · 2020 31% · 2021 15% · 2022 28% · 2023 59% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of COMMON JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
66% of COMMON JUSTICE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $16M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 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
COMMON JUSTICE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 84 social science nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 84 social science nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like COMMON JUSTICE INC
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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
74% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 27 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for COMMON JUSTICE INC: 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 COMMON JUSTICE INC?
- COMMON JUSTICE INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $33,288,499 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($6,074,250). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COMMON JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $33,288,499 in grants to COMMON JUSTICE INC, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COMMON JUSTICE INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $6,074,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COMMON JUSTICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 61 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