California · Nonprofit
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,094,726 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,851,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $16M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $22M
- Net assets
- $16M
What National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform does
Mission
The National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (nicjr) is a non-profit organization providing technical assistance, consulting, research, and organizational development in the fields of juvenile and criminal justice, youth development, and violence prevention. Nicjr provides consultation, program development technical assistance, and training to an arrayof organizations; including government agencies, non-profit organizations, and philanthropic foundations.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Caps - during fiscal year 2024 (fy24), nicjr and the other caps partners continued to provide training and ta to the first cohort of caps cities (baltimore, baton rouge, indianapolis, and newark-with nicjr serving as the lead in baltimore and indianapolis). In baltimore, nicjr and its partner the california partnership for safe communities (cpsc) supported the city in implementing a gun violence reduction strategy (gvrs) through developing shooting reviews and coordination meetings. Nicjr also supported gvrs leadership with coaching and ta. Additionally, nicjr provided training, ta, and $240,000 in nicjr giving initiative funding to key cbos within the city's gvrs. In indianapolis, nicjr continued to make monthly tta visits to provide training, ta, assessment, support, and detailed recommendations related to shooting reviews, coordination meetings, and other violence intervention work. Nicjr also provided regular training and ta to the city's frontline workers (life coaches, violence interrupters, outreach workers) and $525,000 in nicjr giving initiative funding to key cbos within the city's gvrs. Additionally, nicjr completed research for cohort 1 cities that began the prior…
$1,469,354 spentof which $1,050,000 as grants38% of program spendingGvrs - in fy24, nicjr supported 20 jurisdictions in planning, implementing, and refining data-driven, evidence-based gvrs. Examples of this work included: indianapolis: nicjr continued to support the city's implementation of its gvrs throughout fy24. A team of four to five nicjr team members visited indianapolis for a full week every month to provide training, ta, assessment, and support, including training street outreach workers, intensive life coaches, and violence interrupters hired by the city. These efforts are paying off. By the end of cy23, the city had experienced a 30% reduction in murders since the implementation of gvrs, with further increases through the end of fy24. Knoxville: in june 2023, nicjr began providing comprehensive training and ta to support knoxville's implementation of gvrs. This has included conducting a cost of gun violence study and landscape analysis, providing ongoing support to the office of community safety and engagement director and staff, and delivering life coaching trainings. Nicjr also facilitated an oakland site visit where representatives from knoxville were able to gain firsthand insight into oakland's gvrs. Additionally, nicjr has…
$1,084,835 spentof which $429,262 as grants$1,004,442 earned by the program28% of program spendingJustice system reforms - community-based alternatives to youth incarceration initiative (cbayi): in late 2022, nicjr was chosen to serve as the ta provider for the office of juvenile justice and delinquency prevention (ojjdp) cbayi initiative. Nicjr and its partner catalyze justice hosted a seven-month community of practice for government officials from 11 jurisdictions to learn about effective models for increasing community-based alternatives to youth incarceration. Nicjr and catalyze justice also hosted a march 2024 site visit to new york city, where participants visited innovative youth facilities and heard from community and government leaders. As an extension of this work, nicjr also developed a brief highlighting innovative practices to support jurisdictions looking to minimize the use of juvenile detention and secure residential placement. Nicjr also provided some level of individual training and ta to sites. For example, nicjr completed sites visits to puerto rico and hawaii to better understand their needs and developed a memo for the new orleans office of criminal justice that provided recommendations on allocation of $4.45 million in american rescue plan act funding…
$407,867 spent11% of program spendingOther programs - direct programming, advocacy, ypoc, novpn, school-based services, training and development, the giving initiative, reserach and data, cvipi.
$904,156 spentof which $35,000 as grants$755,265 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,866,212.
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 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $20M (+48%).
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: 2021 0% · 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 3% · 2025 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
82% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (95% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 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
David Muhammad
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose $150k → $4.0M.
12 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 55% 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 43% · 2020 25% · 2021 25% · 2022 27% · 2023 42% — 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
60% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
55% of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM'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 $9.9M that is directly attributable, 75% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M 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
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 152 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 152 crime & legal nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.5M on record.
- Department of Justice$5.5M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
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
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
39%
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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM: 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 NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM?
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $22,094,726 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($10,851,000). 17 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $22,094,726 in grants to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM, 17 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,851,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM 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.
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 36 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