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Public Welfare Foundation: all 522 grants

Largest first · $71.8M across 2021–2023 · back to the overview

• $1.4M

  Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2021

  General Support

• $1.3M

  Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2021

  General Support

• $900,000

  Michigan Center for Youth Justice · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021

  General Support - to strengthen organization's operating and programmatic infrastructure.

• $753,000

  Voices for a Second Chance · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $700,000

  National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform · Oakland, CA · 2022

  General Support and Support for policy and technical assistance on violence intervention strategies.

• $650,000

  New Jersey Institute for Social Justice · Newark, NJ · 2021

  Support for the campaign to close youth prisons and reinvest in communities.

• $620,000

  Ors Impact · Seattle, WA · 2022

  Support for the programmatic evaluation of the Foundation's work.

• $605,825

  Operation Restoration · New Orleans, LA · 2021

  General Support

• $585,000

  Ors Impact · Seattle, WA · 2021

  Support for Evaluation and Learning Framework implementation.

• $550,000

  Tulsa Community Foundation · Tulsa, OK · 2022

  Support for Oklahoma Justice Fund.

• $509,750

  Southern Center for Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2021

  General Support

• $501,605

  Hmong American Womens Association · Milwaukee, WI · 2021

  General Support

• $501,000

  Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2021

  General Support

• $500,000

  Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2023

  Support for the Michigan Justice Fund

• $500,000

  Foundation for Louisiana · New Orleans, LA · 2023

  Support for Louisiana Justice Fund

• $500,000

  The Just Trust for Education · Tulsa, OK · 2023

  Support for the Oklahoma Justice Funders Collaborative

• $500,000

  Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan · Detroit, MI · 2022

  Support to the Michigan Justice Fund, a pooled fund to support coordinated justice reform efforts in Michigan.

• $500,000

  Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2022

  Program support for Vera Louisiana to launch a criminal justice data dashboard.

• $500,000

  Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition · Denver, CO · 2021

  General Support - to strengthen organization's operating and programmatic infrastructure.

• $500,000

  Equal Justice Initiative · Montgomery, AL · 2021

  General Support

• $475,000

  New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $450,000

  Operation Restoration · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  General Support

• $411,500

  Second Chance Center · Aurora, CO · 2021

  General Support

• $409,323

  Princeton University · Princeton, NJ · 2023

  Support for Research and Practice Network on Gun Violence Reduction

• $406,250

  Voice of the Experienced · New Orleans, LA · 2021

  General Support

• $405,000

  Ors Impact · Seattle, WA · 2023

  Support for 2024 Evaluation and Learning Partnership

• $404,750

  Safe & Just Michigan · Lansing, MI · 2021

  General Support

• $401,500

  School Justice Project · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $400,200

  Allied Media Projects · Detroit, MI · 2022

  Support for Intelligent Mischief

• $400,000

  Ubuntu Village Nola · New Orleans, LA · 2023

  Support for Mission Support Funding

• $400,000

  Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  Support for Vera's True Line Project

• $400,000

  Accelerate Change · Boston, MA · 2022

  Support for Accelerate Change's criminal justice reform narrative campaign project.

• $400,000

  Social & Environmental Entrepreneurs · Calabasas, CA · 2022

  Support for Women on the Rise flagship campaign, Communities Over Cages: Close the Jail ATL.

• $394,250

  Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2022

  Support to the Mississippi Justice Funders Collaborative

• $350,000

  Promise of Justice Initiative · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  Support to Promise of Justice Initiative for a Louisiana commutation project.

• $350,000

  The Marshall Project · New York, NY · 2022

  Support for a Marshall Project newsroom in Jackson to expand local reporting on criminal justice.

• $325,000

  Latino Coalition for Community Leadership · Colorado Springs, CO · 2022

  Support to Latino Coalition for Community Leadership to continue providing technical assistance and capacity building for the Transforming Justice Initiative.

• $318,167

  Open Buffalo · Buffalo, NY · 2021

  Emergency Support for Buffalo Relief.

• $315,000

  Youth Radio · Oakland, CA · 2021

  General Support

• $301,515

  Tulsa Community Foundation · Tulsa, OK · 2021

  General Support

• $300,000

  Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition · Denver, CO · 2023

  General Support

• $300,000

  Dc Justice Lab · Washington, DC · 2023

  General Support

• $300,000

  Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa-USA · New York, NY · 2023

  Support for Advancing Education and Leadership Opportunities for Women and Youth in West Africa

• $300,000

  Neighborhood Defender Service · New York, NY · 2023

  Support for NDS Jackson / NDS PACE

• $300,000

  Operation Restoration · New Orleans, LA · 2023

  Support for Continuing to meet the needs of our community

• $300,000

  Southern Center for Human Rights · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  Support for SCHR 2024 - 2026 Campaign to Transform Georgia's Criminal Legal System

• $300,000

  The Praxis Project · Oakland, CA · 2023

  Support for General support for Free Hearts

• $300,000

  Vera Institute of Justice · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

  Support for Vera Louisiana to launch a criminal justice data dashboard.

• $300,000

  Voice of the Experienced · New Orleans, LA · 2023

  General Support

• $300,000

  Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition · Denver, CO · 2022

  General Support

• $300,000

  Dc Justice Lab · Washington, DC · 2022

  General Support

• $300,000

  Formerly Incarcerated College Graduates Network · Durham, NC · 2022

  Support to establish the Pathways to Leadership Advancement and Career Excellence (PLACE) program.

• $300,000

  National Public Radio · Washington, DC · 2022

  Support for National Public Radio's (NPR) coverage of criminal justice reform and to fund a criminal justice education fly-in session in Washington D.C.

• $300,000

  New Profit · Boston, MA · 2022

  Support for New Profit's third Unlocked Futures Catalyze cohort.

• $300,000

  Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2022

  Support Catalyze Justice to guide youth, community, system, and funding leaders in building community-led alternatives to youth incarceration and conducting a process evaluation of the Zero Youth Corrections (ZYC) grant… read allSupport Catalyze Justice to guide youth, community, system, and funding leaders in building community-led alternatives to youth incarceration and conducting a process evaluation of the Zero Youth Corrections (ZYC) grant work in Milwaukee. less
• $300,000

  Sisterreach · Memphis, TN · 2022

  General Support

• $300,000

  Voice of the Experienced · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  General Support

• $300,000

  Women With a Vision · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  Program support for Women With A Vision's youth justice and decriminalization initiatives

• $300,000

  Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $300,000

  Freedom Reads · Hamden, CT · 2021

  General Support

• $300,000

  Regents of the University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI · 2021

  General Support

• $275,000

  Latino Coalition for Community Leadership · Colorado Springs, CO · 2023

  Support for Transforming Justice

• $258,000

  Promise of Justice Initiative · New Orleans, LA · 2021

  General Support

• $253,500

  Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $251,500

  Ubuntu Village Nola · New Orleans, LA · 2021

  General Support

• $250,404

  Girls for a Change · North Chesterfield, VA · 2021

  General Support

• $250,000

  Council for Court Excellence · Washington, DC · 2023

  General Operating Support for CCE's Adult and Youth Criminal Justice Portfolios

• $250,000

  Highlander Research and Education Center · New Market, TN · 2023

  Support for Towards A People's Justice

• $250,000

  The Community Ltd · Milwaukee, WI · 2023

  Support for Strengthening The Community

• $250,000

  Tulsa Community Foundation · Tulsa, OK · 2023

  Support for Oklahoma Justice Funders Collaborative Fund

• $250,000

  Echoing Green · New York, NY · 2022

  Support for BIPOC leaders developing targeted solutions to the systemic challenges in their communities.

• $250,000

  Forward Impact (Represent Justice) · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

  Support for a storytelling and narrative power-building program for system-impacted advocates and community partners in the justice ecosystem.

• $250,000

  New Voices Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA · 2022

  General Support

• $250,000

  The Praxis Project · Oakland, CA · 2022

  Support to Free Hearts for advocacy in organizing families impacted by incarceration.

• $250,000

  Yellowhammer Fund · Tuscaloosa, AL · 2022

  General Support

• $250,000

  National Public Radio · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $244,500

  Hit Strategies Llc · Washington, DC · 2022

  Support to poll Washington DC residents and produce analytical results

• $243,000

  Players Philanthropy Fund · Towson, MD · 2022

  Support to Community Defense of East Tennessee.

• $234,000

  Mississippi Center for Justice · Jackson, MS · 2023

  Support for Criminal Justice Reform

• $225,000

  Justcity · Memphis, TN · 2023

  Support for Just City

• $225,000

  Possibility Labs · San Francisco, CA · 2023

  Support for Catalyze Justice: Supporting Partners Nationwide in Youth Justice Transformation

• $225,000

  Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing (Expo) · Madison, WI · 2022

  Support for the FREE project at Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing, to ensure women in Milwaukee have access to, and the ability to advocate for, quality maternal health care in carceral and post-carceral settings.

• $225,000

  Justcity · Memphis, TN · 2022

  Support for advocacy for pretrial justice, clean records, and to end fines and fees in Memphis.

• $223,000

  Milwaukee Turners · Milwaukee, WI · 2022

  Support for the Milwaukee Turners to confront mass incarceration through supporting formerly incarcerated young people and adults in their return home.

• $222,750

  National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform · Oakland, CA · 2021

  General Support

• $222,000

  National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform · Oakland, CA · 2023

  Support for Research and Practice Network on Gun Violence

• $218,710

  Foundation for Louisiana · New Orleans, LA · 2022

  Support for The Louisiana Justice Fund

• $217,773

  Wayne State University · Detroit, MI · 2021

  Support for Wayne State University's (WSU) Center for Behavioral Health and Justice (CBHJ).

• $215,000

  Third Space Foundation · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022

  Support for LiveFree OKC to decrease community-based violence and the harmful impacts of the carceral system in predominately Black Ward 7 of Oklahoma City

• $212,600

  National Center for Youth Law · Oakland, CA · 2022

  Support to the Lived Experience Fellowship and TA for Colorado Youth Justice Coalition.

• $210,000

  Deep Center · Savannah, GA · 2022

  Support for the Restorative Community Programs.

• $207,000

  Latino Coalition for Community Leadership · Colorado Springs, CO · 2021

  General Support

• $205,060

  Greater Washington Community Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023

  Support for Guaranteed Basic Income Pilot Program in the Greater Washington Region

• $204,080

  Greater Milwaukee Foundation · Milwaukee, WI · 2021

  Support to continue the Youth Justice Partnership Fund.

• $204,000

  Capital B News · Ny, NY · 2021

  General Support

• $202,250

  Justice Policy Institute · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $201,750

  Council for Court Excellence · Washington, DC · 2021

  General Support

• $200,000

  Associated Press · New York, NY · 2023

  Support for Telling the Youth Justice Story

• $200,000

  Atlantafulton County Prearrest Diversion Initiative · Atlanta, GA · 2023

  General Support

• $200,000

  Black Swan Academy · Washington, DC · 2023

  General Support