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Grant recipient EIN 85-2810883Crime and legal aid

Who funds Justice Innovation Inc?

36 private foundations gave Justice Innovation Inc in New York, NY $7.9 million across 79 grants, in tax years 2021 to 2025.

Grants listed on funders’ 990-PF returns for tax years 2021 to 2025, read from the IRS e-file on Nov 11, 2026. Returns reach the IRS 5 to 18 months after the year they describe.

Grants received by year

Grants from private foundations by the funder’s tax year. The latest year is in blue; it is not complete until all its returns reach the IRS.

Every foundation grant, by year

79 grants

Each line as the funder listed it on its return, newest year first, then largest.

  1. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2025

    General operating support

    $250,000
  2. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2025

    General operating support

    $250,000
  3. Endeavor Foundation IncNew York, NY 2025

    Strong starts court initiative

    $150,000
  4. Seedworks FundBlock Island, RI 2025

    General fund

    $130,000
  5. The Johnson Street FoundationNew York, NY 2025

    Grant: strong starts bronx

    $100,000
  6. Amazin' Mets Foundation IncFlushing, NY 2025

    Healthcare support

    $40,000
  7. The Clark & Shannon Buerk Family FoundationWilmington, DE 2025

    General & Unrestricted

    $3,000
  8. Silton Family FoundationSanta Monica, CA 2025

    Unrestricted gift

    $1,000
  9. The Robert Wood Johnson FoundationPrinceton, NJ 2024

    81466 convening a national conversation on reforming municipal courts and their harmful outcomes for lower-income communities and communities of color

    $525,929
  10. Carson Family Charitable TrustNew York, NY 2024

    General operating support

    $300,000
  11. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To explore the prosecutor policy landscape relating to intimate partner violence, as well as host two convenings to further generate evaluation opportunities.

    $293,138
  12. The Thompson Family Foundation IncNew York, NY 2024

    To aid the donee organization in carrying out its exempt functions.

    $250,000
  13. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To develop a practice model to support effective policy implementation and its rigorous evaluation in the area of public defense.

    $199,913
  14. New York State Health FDN D/B/A New York Health FoundationNew York, NY 2024

    Advancing peer mentors in new yorks veterans treatment courts

    $160,000
  15. Endeavor Foundation IncNew York, NY 2024

    Strong starts court initiative

    $150,000
  16. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2024

    Expanding restorative justice alternative to incarceration programming

    $100,000
  17. The Johnson Street FoundationNew York, NY 2024

    Grant: strong starts bronx

    $100,000
  18. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To identify data needs and challenges in rural settings and provide guidance to rural counties on how to build robust indigent defense data infrastructure, with the overall goal of improving the availability, quality, and use of indigent defense data in rural counties and enabling future research.

    $100,000
  19. Miner-Romanoff FoundationColumbus, OH 2024

    Charitable gift for public charitable worksrkscharitable gift for public charitable works

    $75,000
  20. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2024

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  21. Furtherjustice Foundation IncHarrison, NY 2024

    Designated exclusively for newark community solutions

    $50,000
  22. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To conduct a national study of prosecutors' charging decisions and recommendations with a goal of informing policy and promoting transparency.

    $49,932
  23. Marty and Dorothy Silverman FoundationNew York, NY 2024

    General donation

    $45,000
  24. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To leverage the sixtieth anniversary of gideon v. Wainwright to elevate, amplify, and promote innovative approaches and strategies to improving public defense in the united states.

    $44,418
  25. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To examine the use, overuse, and misuse of mandatory drug testing in probation and parole systems; develop an approach to drug use consistent with advances in addiction science; and spur reforms consistent with that research.

    $39,267
  26. Janey Fund Charitable TrustBoston, MA 2024

    Unrestricted

    $30,000
  27. Amazin' Mets Foundation IncFlushing, NY 2024

    Community support

    $25,000
  28. The Eisner Foundation IncBeverly Hills, CA 2024

    General

    $25,000
  29. The Staten Island FoundationStaten Island, NY 2024

    Elizabeth dubovsky fellowship

    $23,000
  30. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To support two national surveys on local indigent defense systems.

    $21,247
  31. Turrell FundMontclair, NJ 2024

    Program support

    $20,000
  32. Universal Music All Together Now Foundation IncSanta Monica, CA 2024

    General operating support

    $20,000
  33. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2024

    To partner with the california office of the state public defender to host a convening for indigent defense administrators across california to address public defense reform.

    $9,522
  34. Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation IncNew York, NY 2024

    In support of the strong starts court initiative.

    $1,000
  35. The Thompson Family Foundation IncNew York, NY 2023

    To aid the donee organization in carrying out its exempt functions.

    $250,000
  36. The Andrew W Mellon FoundationNew York, NY 2023

    To support the relaunch of the center for court innovations project reset brooklyn, an arts-based diversion program offering an innovative response to low-level arrests

    $250,000
  37. Carson Family Charitable TrustNew York, NY 2023

    General operating support

    $250,000
  38. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To leverage the sixtieth anniversary of gideon v. Wainwright to elevate, amplify, and promote innovative approaches and strategies to improving public defense in the united states.

    $200,000
  39. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To examine the use, overuse, and misuse of mandatory drug testing in probation and parole systems.

    $200,000
  40. Endeavor Foundation IncNew York, NY 2023

    Strong starts court initiative

    $150,000
  41. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2023

    Expanding restorative justice alternative-to-incarceration programming

    $100,000
  42. The Hearst FoundationNew York, NY 2023

    Support operations

    $100,000
  43. The Johnson Street FoundationNew York, NY 2023

    Grant: strong starts bronx clinical coordinator

    $100,000
  44. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To support two national surveys on local indigent defense systems.

    $90,000
  45. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To partner with ospd to host a convening for indigent defense administrators across california.

    $90,000
  46. The Waterwheel FoundationNew York, NY 2023

    General

    $50,000
  47. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2023

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  48. Furtherjustice Foundation IncHarrison, NY 2023

    Exclusively for newark community solutions legal accelerator grantee

    $50,000
  49. Janey Fund Charitable TrustBoston, MA 2023

    Unrestricted

    $30,000
  50. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To support a national roundtable dedicated to fostering leading-edge thinking in the justice policy space of reentry and reintegration.

    $15,351
  51. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2023

    To host a convening in collaboration with the columbia justice lab and office of the district attorney of new york to share the manhattan felony alternatives to incarceration court program with a diverse group of experts.

    $15,000
  52. Clif Family FoundationSaint Helena, CA 2023

    Enhance Community Health

    $10,000
  53. The Aber D Unger Foundation IncBaltimore, MD 2023

    For use in accordance with the established purpose of the recipient organization

    $10,000
  54. Universal Music All Together Now Foundation IncSanta Monica, CA 2023

    General operating support

    $5,000
  55. Lucille Ellis Simon FoundationSanta Monica, CA 2023

    Charitable

    $2,000
  56. The Gap FoundationSan Francisco, CA 2023

    For civic & community engagement

    $450
  57. Carson Family Charitable TrustNew York, NY 2022

    General operating support

    $250,000
  58. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2022

    To conduct a national study of prosecutors' charging decisions and recommendations with a goal of informing policy and promoting transparency.

    $200,000
  59. Miner-Romanoff FoundationColumbus, OH 2022

    Charitable gift for public charitable workscharitable gift for public charitable works

    $200,000
  60. The Thompson Family Foundation IncNew York, NY 2022

    To aid the donee organization in carrying out its exempt functions.

    $150,000
  61. Tiger FoundationNew York, NY 2022

    General operating support

    $150,000
  62. Endeavor Foundation IncNew York, NY 2022

    Strong starts court initiative

    $150,000
  63. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2022

    Project reset staten island and felony alternative to incarceration programs

    $100,000
  64. The Johnson Street FoundationNew York, NY 2022

    Grant: strong starts bronx family court

    $100,000
  65. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2022

    To support a national roundtable dedicated to fostering leading-edge thinking in the justice policy space of reentry and reintegration.

    $76,754
  66. Marty and Dorothy Silverman FoundationNew York, NY 2022

    General donation

    $67,500
  67. Laura and John Arnold FoundationHouston, TX 2022

    To conduct a national study of practices to address intimate partner violence in the context of pretrial reform.

    $55,504
  68. W Clement & Jessie V Stone FoundationChicago, IL 2022

    General Operating Support

    $50,000
  69. Viking Global Foundation IncStamford, CT 2022

    General support

    $50,000
  70. Janey Fund Charitable TrustBoston, MA 2022

    Unrestricted

    $30,000
  71. Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation IncStamford, CT 2022

    Workforce development

    $25,000
  72. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2022

    25th anniversary benefit visionary sponsor

    $23,188
  73. The Aber D Unger Foundation IncBaltimore, MD 2022

    For use in accordance with the established purpose of the recipient organization

    $7,500
  74. Edward Sykes XXXXX1000Chicago, IL 2022

    General

    $5,000
  75. The Eberstadt-Kuffner Fund IncNew York, NY 2022

    General fund

    $5,000
  76. Pseg Foundation IncNewark, NJ 2022

    Grades4life Youth Entrepreneurship Program

    $1,500
  77. Carson Family Charitable TrustNew York, NY 2021

    One time costs for 501(c)3 transition

    $350,000
  78. The Tow Foundation IncNew Canaan, CT 2021

    Center for court innovation's project reset staten island and felony alternative to incarceration programs

    $100,000
  79. JPMorgan Chase FoundationNew York, NY 2021

    General operating support

    $100,000

Funders of similar organizations nearby

Foundations that gave to other crime and legal aid organizations in New York, NY and are not among Justice Innovation Inc’s funders above.

  1. Amazonsmile FoundationSeattle, WA 258 grants Preselected only $98,399 to similar organizations
  2. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncCharlotte, NC 81 grants Accepts applications $846,977 to similar organizations
  3. The Pfizer Foundation IncNew York, NY 42 grants Preselected only $51,089 to similar organizations
  4. The Ford FoundationNew York, NY 54 grants Accepts applications $12,280,942 to similar organizations
  5. Mother Cabrini Health Foundation IncNew York, NY 36 grants Accepts applications $7,656,434 to similar organizations
  6. Pinkerton FoundationNew York, NY 57 grants Accepts applications $8,047,500 to similar organizations
  7. The Hyde and Watson FoundationWarren Township, NJ 38 grants Accepts applications $417,000 to similar organizations
  8. American Express FoundationNew York, NY 107 grants Accepts applications $7,987 to similar organizations

About this match

Funders write a recipient’s name and address, not its EIN. We matched these grants to EIN 85-2810883 by name and ZIP code, or by name, city and State against the IRS list of exempt organizations and our list of filers. Grants we could not tie to one organization are not counted here.