Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Justice Policy Institute
Justice Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,626,470 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($1,199,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $660k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $127k
What Justice Policy Institute does
Mission
The Justice Policy Institute is dedicated to reducing the use of incarceration and involvement in the justice system by promoting fair and effective policies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Justice Reform efforts in DC, Maryland and Virginia - JPI continued to provide research and policy support for justice reform initiatives in DC, Maryland, and Virginia. JPI supported various coalitions to advance reform initiatives and building strategic partnerships and relationships to enhance justice reform in the region. JPI worked on various policy issues including parole reform, second look, higher education in prison, community investment, electronic monitoring, and youth justice.
$317,611 spent42% of program spendingOther JPI engaged in a variety of other juvenile and criminal justice reform program activities in support of its mission, including serving as a fiscal sponsor for More Than Our Crimes; conducting research and policy work to reduce the use of long prison terms; enhancing community responses to those involved in violent crime and returning to the community after incarceration.
$149,457 spent20% of program spendingPublic Information Officers Learning Collaborative - JPI served as a project partner and convenor of the Public Information Officers Learning Collaborative in partnership with the Georgetown University Center for Youth Justice (formerly Center for Juvenile Justice Reform), providing support to youth justice and child welfare PIOs from across the country.
$125,494 spent17% of program spendingIRAA Implementation Support Support to District-wide efforts to build a comprehensive response to the needs of those released under the Incarceration Reduction Amendment Act of 2016 (IRAA) and the Second Look Act of 2020, including providing coordination among funded legal services and reentry service providers.
$90,340 spent12% of program spendingEmerging Adult Justice Reform Work in Washington, DC JPI worked in coalition with partner organizations and advocates related to advancing implementation of the Emerging Adult Strategic Plan (18-to-24-year-olds) as required under the Amended Youth Rehabilitation Act of 2018. As part of this work JPI published the report Building a Brighter Future: A Plan to Invest in DCs Emerging Adults, as well as participated in the Columbia University Emerging Adult Justice Projects innovation site cohort.
$71,634 spent9% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $754,536.
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 2018 to 2019, from $407k to $1.3M (+222%).
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: 2019 11% · 2020 8% · 2022 11% · 2023 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
90% of Justice Policy Institute’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (94% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 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
Jasmine Tyler
Executive Director
Board chair
Katharine Huffman
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose $231k → $827k.
10 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 Justice Policy Institute’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
Justice Policy Institute has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 80% · 2019 42% · 2020 42% · 2021 32% · 2022 19% · 2023 30% — 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
50% of Justice Policy Institute's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
Justice Policy Institute draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 9 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $951k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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
Justice Policy Institute's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 12 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,661 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Justice Policy Institute
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
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 Justice Policy Institute: 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 Justice Policy Institute?
- Justice Policy Institute (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,626,470 to it, the largest being Annie E Casey Foundation Inc ($1,199,250). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Justice Policy Institute have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $6,626,470 in grants to Justice Policy Institute, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Justice Policy Institute?
- Annie E Casey Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,199,250 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Justice Policy Institute 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 FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 28 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