Maryland · Nonprofit
PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE
PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,476,033 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($12,856,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.5M
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $19M
- Net assets
- $454k
What Pretrial Justice Institute does
Mission
Pretrial Justice Institute informs, inspires, and mobilizes local pretrial changemakers working to end mass incarceration.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
In 2023, pji continued to partner with the macarthur foundation and their initiative the safety & justice challenge- hosting one in-person and one virtual convenings for hundreds of stakeholders who are working together to rethink jails and decrease their jail populations. Pji continues to provide technological and community management support for the sjcexchange, the online community where stakeholders exchange ideas, share best practices, and connect within a community of practitioners. Pji provides training and technical assistance to jurisdictions across the country. Additionally, through the creation and dissemination of training and educational materials, courses and events, pji provides education to a variety of stakeholders. These resources equip the field with relevant, pertinent information, data and analysis to build urgency, advocacy and knowledge to support pretrial reform across the country. In june of 2023 pji published willful flight, a report that looks at the implications of applying the legal standard of willful flight from prosecution versus failure to appear in court. Pji hosted a roundtable discussion about the publications and the next steps for the field.…
$1,347,266 spent$56,960 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2023 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,347,266.
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.
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 $1.2M to $3.0M (+140%).
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 23% · 2018 5% · 2020 7% · 2021 8% · 2024 8%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $2.8M → $2.5M.
3 of 9 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 PRETRIAL JUSTICE 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
PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 66% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 56% · 2019 75% · 2020 58% · 2021 61% · 2022 51% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
75% of PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 78% 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
PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Government funding PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.7M on record — $1.7M federal, $225 state.
- Department of Justice$1.7M
- DIRECT STATE SERVICES - NON-SALARY$225
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 PRETRIAL JUSTICE 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
21%
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 PRETRIAL JUSTICE 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 PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE?
- PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE (Maryland) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $19,476,033 to it, the largest being JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION ($12,856,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $19,476,033 in grants to PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE?
- JOHN D AND CATHERINE T MACARTHUR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $12,856,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PRETRIAL JUSTICE INSTITUTE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. 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 9 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