Oklahoma · Nonprofit
OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC
OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,615,830 to it, the largest being FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC ($1,658,820). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $391k
- Funders on record
- 13
- Grants received
- $3.6M
- Net assets
- $267k
What Oklahomans for Criminal Justice Reform Inc does
Mission
Oklahomans for criminal justice reform, inc ("ocjr"), an oklahoma not-for- profit corporation, was established to promote awareness and educate the cizizens and leadership of oklahoma on problems and issues facing the oklahoma corrections system on a comprehensive and on-going basis. The role of the ocjr is to educate oklahomans and facilitate meaningful reform with the help of local service providers, community and state agencies, and community and state leaders and organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The ocjr have educated oklahomans and facilitated meaningful reform with the help of local service providers, community and state agencies, and community and state leaders and organizations
The ocjr have educated oklahomans and facilitated meaningful reform with the help of local service providers, community and state agencies, and community and state leaders and organizations
$468,338 spent100% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2023 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $468,338.
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 2019 to 2020, from $133k to $346k (+160%).
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 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (94% 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
David Ligon
Chair / trea
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 7 funders, grant income fell $509k → $485k.
6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 23% 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 OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC’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
OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
83% 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 OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 67% · 2022 38% · 2023 31% — 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 OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC's funders are still giving 1 year 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
OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Oklahoma, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $831k 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
OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC's revenue fell 47% between 2019 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,538 crime & legal nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM 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 Oklahoma
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC?
- OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC (Oklahoma) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,615,830 to it, the largest being FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC ($1,658,820). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $3,615,830 in grants to OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC?
- FWDUS EDUCATION FUND INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,658,820 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OKLAHOMANS FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oklahoma. 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 13 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