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12 funders with a record of paying for “sentencing”
Where the money went
Largest: $40,000 to THE SENTENCING PROJECT — to provide non-partisan research and expertise on sentencing policy.
Largest: $100,000 to The Sentencing Project — support policy/advocacy regarding diversion, narrative change, and elimination of harsh sentencing for youth
The Sentencing ProjectWashington, DCCharity · may take applications
19 matching grants · $276,000 · through 2024Largest: $10,000 to ACLU-RI — this grant, given through the aclu of rhode island, hired a full-time organizer to educate the public and garner partners to end life without parole in rhode island. this effort ha…
Largest: $20,000 to UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — ct sentencing commission fellowship program
Largest: $125,000 to FUSION PARTNERSHIPS INC — to provide support to the family support network, a fiscally sponsored project of the grantee, to bring home people serving long-sentences, particularly people serving life sentenc…
Largest: $750,000 to THE SENTENCING PROJECT — advancing civic engagement
Action NowHouston, TXCharity · may take applications
4 matching grants · $1.1M · through 2025Largest: $100,000 to SAFETY AND JUSTICE OREGON — to support grantee's work to remove the sunset clause for the family sentencing alternative program, expand eligibility for earned sentence credits, and advance evidence-based crim…
Largest: $150,000 to LEGAL AID SOCIETY — renewed support for a campaign to divert people with mental illness from the criminal justice system, and to end new york state holding mentally ill people in prison past their sen…
Largest: $170,000 to COUNCIL ON CRIMINAL JUSTICE INC — project support to advance research and communications work to document and raise awareness of sentencing trends and to build consensus for solutions particularly to mitigate unnec…
The Just Trust for EducationDurham, NCCharity · may take applications
5 matching grants · $1.2M · through 2024Largest: $400,000 to THE SENTENCING PROJECT — general operating support
Largest: $34,000 to DENALI WILSON — to assist youth sentenced as adults, and their families, navigate a new law that will make them eligible for parole for the first time since their sentencing
Largest: $120,000 to CAMPAIGN FOR THE FAIR SENTENCING OF YOUTH — for general support
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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 →