Ohio · Nonprofit
OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER
OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,131,285 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($976,181). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 62
- Grants received
- $7.1M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Ohio Justice and Policy Center does
Mission
To create fair, intelligent, redemptive criminal justice systems through zealous client-centered advocacy, innovative policy reform and cross-sector community education.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Second chance:this strategic goal aims to expand the freedom of people with criminal records to participate fully in the community. People with criminal records face unprecedented, lifelong barriers to obtaining and retaining gainful employment, accessing education at all levels, and finding stable housing. Ojpc's second chance community legal clinics provide expert 1 on 1 legal support to people with criminal records. Through the legal clinics and our community partnerships, we screen people for criminal record sealing, help individuals obtain court-issued rehabilitation certificates for employment purposes , provide representation to human trafficking survivors; resolve court fines, fees, and costs; and help ohioans in removing other legal barriers to employment, licensing, housing, or civic participation.
$448,040 spent36% of program spendingDecarceration:ojpc's beyond guilt project addresses our strategic goal to reduce the size and racial disparity of the state population of incarcerated people safely and substantially. Launched in the spring of 2019, beyond guilt works to free over-punished people who have served significant portions of their sentences and can demonstrate rehabilitation and readiness to rejoin society. Based on the premise that all people are capable of achieving rehabilitation and redemption, including people who committed a violent crime or other serious offense, we believe (to paraphrase sister helen prejean and bryan stevenson) that people should not be forever defined by their worst acts. Beyond guilt aims to do for the over-punished prisoners who admit guilt what innocence projects have done for wrongfully convicted persons. To date, beyond guilt has freed more than 56 people.we are also litigating two lawsuits against the ohio parole board to force changes that would help mor.e individuals who have rehabilitated themselves gain their freedom.
$473,923 spent38% of program spendingHuman rights in prison:through its impact litigation and advocacy, ojpc's third strategic goal is to eliminate unconstitutional and dangerous conditions of confinement for those living in ohio prisons. In 1982, there were approximately 17,000 people incarcerated in ohio prisons, but there are approximately 45,000 today (down from approximately 50,000 at the beginning of 2020). As the prison population has rapidly grown over the years, and the state has struggled to pay the costs of incarcerating so many people, prison conditions have significantly deteriorated. Incarcerated people face an enormous range of legal and health issues likely to result in serious harm or death. Ojpc also advocates for statewide policies that eliminate unfair treatment of incarcerated people.
$145,870 spent12% of program spendingOjpc's other work includes training future leaders; hosting a handful of summer interns, offering both undergraduate students and law students legal experiences. Our managing attorney supervises the students.ojpc also works to educate the public about the need for criminal legal system reform through various community presentations.
$189,549 spent15% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,257,382.
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 2018 to 2019, from $892k to $1.8M (+98%).
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: 2017 4% · 2018 10% · 2019 5% · 2020 3% · 2021 25% · 2022 41% · 2023 11% · 2024 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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
Gabriel Davis
Chief executive officer
Board chair
David Zimmerman
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $388k → $876k.
14 of 62 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 34% 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 OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 62 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
OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 14% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
52% 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 OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 32% · 2019 24% · 2020 25% · 2021 23% · 2022 26% · 2023 34% — broadly stable.
“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
26% of OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
50% of OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER's grant income comes from Ohio funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.5M 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
OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER is better cushioned than half of the 978 civil rights nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 978 civil rights nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER
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 Ohio
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
79%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER: 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 OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER?
- OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER (Ohio) receives grants from 62 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,131,285 to it, the largest being THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION ($976,181). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER have?
- IRS filings report 62 organizations giving $7,131,285 in grants to OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER?
- THE GREATER CINCINNATI FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $976,181 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OHIO JUSTICE AND POLICY CENTER find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ohio. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 62 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