New York · Nonprofit
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,300,804 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,450,350). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $44M
- Funders on record
- 42
- Grants received
- $46M
- Net assets
- $57M
What Criminal Justice Reform Foundation does
Mission
The mission of the reform alliance is to dramatically reduce the number of people who are unjustly under the control of the criminal justice system starting with probation and parole. To win, we will leverage our considerable resources to change laws, policies, hearts and minds.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
A justice system that holds people accountable and redirects back to work and wellbeing leads to stronger families and safer communities. Instead of keeping people trapped in a revolving door from probation/parole to prison which costs taxpayers billions of dollars we're working to move people from the justice system into stability.
$13,396,753 spentof which $1,253,870 as grants$1,184,783 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,396,753.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 2023 to 2024, from $35M to $60M (+69%).
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 CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 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.
Board chair
Robert Williams
Co-chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 28 funders, grant income rose $10k → $12M.
16 of 42 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 57% 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 CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 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
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
79% 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 CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 91% · 2021 50% · 2022 30% · 2023 25% — 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
36% of CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
57% of CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION'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 $20M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 13 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $26M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 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
CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 254 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 254 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Organizations like CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
82%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Reform Action Fund · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION?
- CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION (New York) receives grants from 42 organizations whose IRS filings report $46,300,804 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($18,450,350). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 42 organizations giving $46,300,804 in grants to CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $18,450,350 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM FOUNDATION 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 FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 42 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