California · Nonprofit
Community Resource Initiative
Community Resource Initiative (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,017 to it, the largest being The Butler Family Fund ($75,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $262k
- Net assets
- $-266550
What Community Resource Initiative does
Mission
Full Picture Justice fights the death penalty and mitigates the harms of extreme sentencing through life history investigation, client advocacy, and community healing.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Direct Service Investigations - Services provided to legal teams for death penalty defense, mental health, and social history investigations. This includes record collection, strategy, and witness interviews for the purposes of documenting a multigenerational, biopsychosocial history of a client, family, and community. This year, FPJ continued the track record of zero death verdicts and further expanded advocacy in furtherance of individualized sentencing. FPJ also provided direct service investigations in cases where individual faced extreme sentences but not the death penalty and in Racial Justice Act investigations.
$1,316,503 spent$1,558,204 earned by the program87% of program spendingClient, Family, and Community Services - We work with communities impacted by the criminal legal system to promote healing. Through the leadership of system-impacted individuals, we create spaces and utilize restorative strategies to inspire growth, creativity, and belonging. We strive to support individuals both inside the walls and outside in our Bay Area community and beyond by exploring communication, forgiveness, and reconciliation.
$173,952 spent11% of program spendingAdvocacy and Educational Initiatives - FPJ trained and built expertise for our mitigation specialists and the capital defense community nationwide. FPJ collaborated with local, state and national organizations to help eliminate the inequities of the criminal justice system through our internship program and community newsletters.
$24,657 spent2% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,515,112.
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. 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 2017 to 2018, from $133k to $310k (+134%).
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.
19% of Community Resource Initiative’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 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
Diane Lorenzo
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 8 funders, grant income rose $2k → $95k.
9 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 54% 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 Community Resource Initiative’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
Community Resource Initiative has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% 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
54% 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 Community Resource Initiative.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 97% · 2021 67% · 2022 71% · 2023 26% — 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
25% of Community Resource Initiative's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 44% 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
54% of Community Resource Initiative'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 $121k that is directly attributable, 87% of it comes from funders outside California, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $141k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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
Community Resource Initiative runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like Community Resource Initiative
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
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Community Resource Initiative: 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 Community Resource Initiative?
- Community Resource Initiative (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $262,017 to it, the largest being The Butler Family Fund ($75,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Community Resource Initiative have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $262,017 in grants to Community Resource Initiative, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Community Resource Initiative?
- The Butler Family Fund is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Community Resource Initiative 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.
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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 2017–2025), and the filings of 16 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