Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC
COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,939,762 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,674,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $4.0M
- Funders on record
- 40
- Grants received
- $17M
- Net assets
- $6.4M
What Council on Criminal Justice Inc does
Mission
The council on criminal justice works to advance understanding of the criminal justice policy choices facing the nation and builds consensus for solutions that enhance safety and justice for all. Independent and nonpartisan, we are an invitational membership organization and think tank, serving as a center of gravity and incubator of policy and leadership for the criminal justice field. Harnessing the experience and vision of the nation's top experts, innovators, and influencerS, we are a catalyst for progress based on facts, evidence and fundamental principles of justice. above all, the council is founded on the belief that a fair and effective criminal justice system is essential to democracy and a core measure of our nation's well-being.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
policy: During 2025, the council facilitated expert task forces, produced analyses, and convened experts on critical issues in criminal justice policy. Policy projects included: Veterans justice commission, women's justice commission, task force on artificial intelligence.
$2,865,530 spent64% of program spendinggeneral membership: The Council nominated, vetted, and elected new members in 2025, growing its representation of leaders, thinkers, and influencers from across the criminal justice and policy fields. Most notably, the COuncil hosted its tri-annual member Summit in September 2025.
$760,588 spent17% of program spendingresearch: The Council conducted, commissioned, and published a variety of stand-alone research products in 2025, including a variety of pieces on crime trends.
$540,404 spent12% of program spendingtask forces: During 2024, the Council on Criminal Justice facilitated expert task forces, produced analyses, and convened experts on critical issues in criminal justice policy: Veterans Justice Commission, Crime Trends Working Group, Womens Justice Commission, artificial intelligence.
$296,129 spent7% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,462,651.
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 2020 to 2021, from $3.8M to $8.2M (+116%).
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.
95% of COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Adam Gelb
President & CEO
Board chair
Diane Williams
Chairman
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose $1.4M → $3.1M.
5 of 40 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% 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 COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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
COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% 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
53% 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 COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 44% · 2021 68% · 2022 23% · 2023 20% — 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
38% of COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 15 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $6.4M 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
COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,337 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
66%
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 COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL 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 COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC?
- COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 40 organizations whose IRS filings report $16,939,762 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($5,674,500). 20 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 40 organizations giving $16,939,762 in grants to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC, 20 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $5,674,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 40 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