Funding search · criminal justice reform · Pennsylvania
Who funds criminal justice reform work in Pennsylvania
15 funders have a record of paying for criminal justice reform work by Pennsylvania recipients: 70 grants totaling $14.2M, most recently in 2024 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated) ($8.3M), Hillman Family Foundations ($1.6M) and The Heinz Endowments ($726,340).
From IRS Form 990-PF and 990 Schedule I filings, 2019–2025. Grants already paid to Pennsylvania recipients — evidence of what these funders back, not open calls.
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
12 matching grants · $8.3M · through 2024Largest: $1.3M to City of Philadelphia Pennsylvania — to support philadelphia's participation as an implementation site in the safety and justice challenge, the foundation's criminal justice reform initiative aimed at reducing over-in…
Largest: $450,000 to REIMAGINE REENTRY INC — reimagine reentry program for citizens returning from incarceration
Largest: $100,000 to MARY S DAUGHTER FOR THE FORMERLY INCARCERATED — for education and creative expression programming that will empower formerly incarcerated black and brown women, trans and non-binary people in allegheny county as a part of the di…
Largest: $100,000 to AMISTAD LAW PROJECT — to amplify the voices of people directly impacted by gun violence and mass incarceration.
Largest: $50,000 to ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — support for advocacy for incarcerated people with disabilities
Largest: $29,000 to ASHLEY HENDERSON — to educate the public about trauma related to incarceration and to develop a transformative justice training program, focused on trauma and healing
Largest: $25,000 to REIMAGINE REENTRY INC — to support a mental health program pilot for individuals who have been released from incarceration within the last 3 years
Largest: $202,802 to DREXEL UNIVERSITY — to plan and pilot a randomized controlled trial examining if providing targeted housing subsidies directly after release from incarceration impacts rates or recidivism and homeless…
Pennsylvania VoicePhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
3 matching grants · $298,475 · through 2024Largest: $124,859 to MOTHER'S OF INCARCERATED SONS — public education and civic engagement
Largest: $268,000 to THE ART AND ADVOCACY SOCIETY — to support the right of return fellowship program for formerly incarcerated artists and planning and capacity building for the art and advocacy society
Largest: $123,666 to PENNSYLVANIA U OF — 78806 investigating the causal impacts of state incarceration policies on racial disparities in health among infants and young adults
Largest: $106,000 to PENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY — expand research on health of incarcerated people
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