Funding search · criminal justice reform · New Jersey
Who funds criminal justice reform work in New Jersey
15 funders have a record of paying for criminal justice reform work by New Jersey recipients: 23 grants totaling $2.8M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are The Heinz Endowments ($180,000), The Institute for Intergovernmental ($213,561) and Fund for New Jersey ($200,000).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to New Jersey recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
Largest: $90,000 to THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM INC — to engage and educate pittsburgh volunteers, primarily undergraduate students from local universities, to provide 1:1 and small group tutoring to incarcerated and formerly incarcer…
The Institute for IntergovernmentalTallahassee, FLCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $213,561 · through 2022Largest: $78,075 to CAMDEN COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS — opioid overdose prevention activities and care programs upon release from incarceration
Largest: $100,000 to ACLU OF NJ FOUNDATION — to reduce incarceration and to defend democracy, housing equity, workers' rights, and other policy initiatives.
The Sentencing ProjectWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $30,000 · through 2023Largest: $10,000 to NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE — support stipend to race council members all formerly incarcerated for their time attending the biweekly meetings and for organizing and leading voting in prison education efforts. …
Largest: $15,000 to THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM — college bridge program for incarcerated learners
Largest: $400,000 to NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC — to support njisj's policy and advocacy efforts to advance economic justice, criminal justice reform, and democracy and justice in new jersey.
Largest: $1.1M to RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY — to continue support for the humanities action labs nationwide climates of inequality and states of incarceration initiatives, based out of the rutgers-newark campus
Ascendium Education SolutionsMadison, WICharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $518,500 · through 2024Largest: $518,500 to THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM INC — grant, expanding college readiness and success for incarcerated learners grant, travel grant - higher education in prison grantee convening -al
Largest: $3,000 to PETEY GREENE PROGRAM — supports the academic and career goals of incarcerated people through education
The Philadelphia FoundationPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
1 matching grant · $22,500 · through 2023Largest: $22,500 to PETEY GREENE PROGRAM — tutoring for incarcerated, formerly incarcerated,
Largest: $15,000 to THE PETEY GREENE PROGRAM INC — educational tutoring of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals in pittsburgh and waynesburg, pa.
Largest: $12,325 to THE TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY — to investigate the role mass incarceration contributes to poverty among the elderly, with a focus on racial disparities.
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