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: 109 grants totaling $20.8M, most recently in 2025 — mostly private foundations, plus grantmaking charities. The largest by matched giving are John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated) ($8.3M), The Heinz Endowments ($2.8M) and Hillman Family Foundations ($1.6M).
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: $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: $450,000 to REIMAGINE REENTRY INC — reimagine reentry program for citizens returning from incarceration
Largest: $10,000 to YOUTH SENTENCING AND REENTRY PROJECT INC — reentry planning
Largest: $916,622 to TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — to conduct research with the philadelphia district attorney's office to evaluate which prosecutor-driven policies can improve fairness and efficiency in the criminal justice system…
Largest: $8,307 to MEDIA INEQUALITY & CHANGE CENTER — to support research on criminal justice coverage in the media
Largest: $50,000 to NEW LEASH ON LIFE USA — first-time support for a philadelphia-based innovative prison diversion and reentry organization that uses the power of the human-animal bond to prepare justice-involved individual…
United Way of Berks CountyReading, PACharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.8M · through 2025Largest: $680,527 to CONNECTIONS WORK — partner agency investments: prisoner reentry services; workforce development focused grant: reentry works
Largest: $25,000 to REIMAGINE REENTRY INC — to support the multi-craft core (mc3) pre-apprenticeship training program for citizens returning to allegheny county from incarceration
The Philadelphia FoundationPhiladelphia, PACharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $363,500 · through 2024Largest: $125,000 to SELF INC — women's reentry program
Largest: $13,000 to MARK STRANDQUIST — to support reentry think tank project, which brings together a collective of advocates from philadelphia who have experienced incarceration to collaborate with photographers, civil…
Largest: $50,000 to ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER — support for advocacy for incarcerated people with disabilities
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