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Private foundations don’t post open calls, so nobody can search them. We read IRS filings instead — 9.6 million grants from 174,053 foundations and grantmaking charities, searchable by what the money was actually for.
12 funders with a record of paying for “criminal”
Where the money went
John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation (Consolidated)Chicago, IL
188 matching grants · $62.2M · through 2024Largest: $450,000 to Legal Defence and Assistance Project LtdGte — to strengthen the fight against corruption in nigeria through increased efficiency in criminal investigations and prosecutions under the administration of criminal justice act and …
Largest: $34,767 to VOLCKER ALLIANCE INC — to host a criminal justice convening in the fall of 2019 that defines the criminal justice policy and research agenda over the next year.
Largest: $200,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — core support for research and communications work to shape stronger and more explicit gender justice approaches in the criminal legal system, reduce women's incarceration rates, an…
Largest: $150,000 to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM — criminal justice and addiction
Largest: $125,000 to NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM — advancing health, community safety and justice: to improve health and safety by providing leadership development to the next generation of social justice advocates, developing rese…
Clean Slate InitiativeOrlando, FLCharity · may take applications
60 matching grants · $9.6M · through 2024Largest: $45,782 to UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE — the clean slate initiative provides grants to state-based coalitions advancing automated record clearance legislation that removes barriers to employment, housing, and education fo…
Largest: $200,000 to Associated Press — support deepening criminal and youth justice investigative reporting and improving journalism on criminal justice through language and skills training with other news outlets.
The Just Trust for EducationDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
56 matching grants · $7.7M · through 2024Largest: $50,000 to COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION OF OKLAHOMA — project support for the oklahoma county criminal justice advisory council for criminal justice reform in oklahoma
The Just Trust for ActionDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
48 matching grants · $21.5M · through 2024Largest: $5.0M to FWDUS — project support for criminal justice reform advocacy
Illinois Equal Justice FoundationChicago, ILCharity · may take applications
46 matching grants · $32.5M · through 2024Largest: $4.1M to LAND OF LINCOLN LEGAL AID — to provide legal information, advice and representation to low-income people in 65 southern/central counties including veterans, people impacted by the criminalization of cannabis …
New York Women'S FoundationNew York, NYCharity · may take applications
55 matching grants · $3.3M · through 2024Largest: $300,000 to WOMEN'S COMMUNITY JUSTICE ASSOCIATION — the criminal justice fund
Fwdus Education FundWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
50 matching grants · $4.6M · through 2024Largest: $415,000 to TULSA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — criminal justice education grant
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Source: IRS Form 990-PF Part XV and Form 990 Schedule I, tax years 2019–2025. These are grants already paid, a record of what an organization funds rather than an open call. Private foundations rarely accept unsolicited applications and the route in is usually a program officer; grantmaking charities and associations more often run real application cycles, so check their website. How this data is built, and its limits →