California · Nonprofit
THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE
THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,086,658 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($4,750,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $13M
- Funders on record
- 30
- Grants received
- $9.1M
- Net assets
- $8.2M
What The Connie Rice Institute for Urban Peace does
Mission
Urban peace institute reduces and prevents community violence by applying a public health approach to understand the underlying reasons for violence and create innovative, holistic ways to change the conditions that lead to them. (continued on schedule o)we provide technical assistance and training to communities throughout california and across the country, supporting safety efforts to ensure that children can learn, families can thrive, and communities can prosper.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Capacity building strengthens community-based organizations (cbos) by supporting organizational infrastructure, enhancing operational capacity, and applying research-informed approaches. The organization facilitates collaboration among partners, promotes effective grant management systems, and engages in policy advocacy to advance community violence intervention (cvi) efforts. Through an emphasis on accountability and partnership, this work increases local impact and supports the long-term sustainability of both community organizations and the systems that serve them.
$4,405,340 spentof which $3,301,189 as grants$748,935 earned by the program62% of program spendingTraining and regional support provides education and technical assistance through the urban peace academy to residents, peacemakers, community practitioners, and public-sector partners on public healthbased approaches to violence reduction. Training curricula emphasize effective community engagement, mediation and conflict resolution, professional standards, trauma-informed practices, worker wellness, and culturally grounded strategies that support safe and effective community violence intervention (cvi) work.through this program, the organization has trained thousands of individuals nationwide and provided regional support to communities seeking to strengthen local cvi (continued on schedule o) infrastructure. In addition, the organization delivers technical assistance to community-based organizations and multi-sector partners to support the development, implementation, and sustainability of violence intervention strategies.
$1,646,091 spentof which $324,226 as grants23% of program spendingJustice transformation (formerly smart justice): urban peace institute (upi) advances justice transformation by developing alternatives to mass incarceration and juvenile detention, with a focus on preventing system involvement for black, indigenous, and other youth of color. Upi's work is grounded in training, advocacy, and youth empowerment. Upi trains prison-and facility-based violence intervention workers (credible messengers) to deliver youth development, restorative justice, and trauma-informed programming within juvenile facilities. Through coalition-based advocacy, upi supports accountability and improved conditions in youth justice systems and promotes investment in community-based prevention and youth development strategies. Upi also empowers system-impacted youth (continued on schedule o)through leadership and fellowship programs that elevate youth voice and support positive outcomes.
$887,846 spent13% of program spendingThe policy and advocacy department develops and promotes systemic solutions to advance new systems of community-led safety and justice that address the root causes of harm and violence. Grounded in the lived experiences of those closest to harm, our policy work aims to bridge community members and policymakers to advance legislative and systems change.community violence intervention: the organization administers community violence intervention (cvi) funding to support community-based violence prevention and public safety efforts. The organization serves as a fiscal intermediary, providing grant administration, compliance oversight, reporting, and monitoring while distributing substantially all program funds to subrecipient partners delivering direct services. A limited administrative fee is retained to cover program management and compliance activities.
$135,816 spent2% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,075,093.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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 $6.1M to $11M (+79%).
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: 2022 22% · 2023 45% · 2024 41% · 2025 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE’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. 1 of the last 5 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
Fernando Rejon
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $100k → $461k.
10 of 30 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 62% 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 THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE’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
THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
78% 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 THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 43% · 2022 53% · 2023 56% — 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
36% of THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE's funders are still giving 2 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
62% of THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE'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 $3.5M that is directly attributable, 80% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $5.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE 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 THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $12.1M on record.
- Department of Justice$12.1M
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 THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
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 THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE: 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 THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE?
- THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE (California) receives grants from 30 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,086,658 to it, the largest being GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ($4,750,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 62% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE have?
- IRS filings report 30 organizations giving $9,086,658 in grants to THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE?
- GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC is the largest funder on record, with $4,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CONNIE RICE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN PEACE 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 2021–2025), and the filings of 30 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