The Abelard Foundation supports early-stage grassroots nonprofits in a broad range of issue areas, including incarceration and police misconduct.
The Adobe Foundation broadly supports anti-crime and anti-violence initiatives around the United States.
The Advancement Project runs a national organization and a separate chapter for its work in the state of California. Nationally, the project supports grassroots organizations involved in voting rights, criminal justice, immigrant justice and education, with a strong focus on racial equity.
Criminal justice reform is the main focus of Akonadi’s All in for Oakland program, which aims to transform of youth justice in Oakland and beyond.
The Andrus Family Fund supports a variety of criminal justice and anti-violence organizations, as well as, social justice organizations across the United States, focusing on youth populations.
The Arca Foundation supports organizations working on the front lines of social change in an effort to achieve economic, social and racial justice, a clean environment, peace and security.
Arnold Ventures supports organizations advancing community and neighborhood safety.
Astraea specializes in criminal justice work that involves LGBTQI people. In addition to addressing "anti-criminalization” efforts to combat “laws, policies and practices that criminalize LGBTQ people’s lives, dignity and livelihoods,” Astraea also addresses migrant justice programs, harsh immigration enforcement policies and the criminalization of LGBTQ immigrants.”
This funder supports organizations whose work relates to breast cancer and gendered violence, as well as scholarships for female students.
The Sidney R. Baer Foundation’s criminal justice grants focus on the justice system’s treatment of people suffering from mental illness.
The Ben & Jerry’s Foundation is devoted to supporting grassroots efforts for activism and change. Criminal justice reform is a component of its economic justice initiative.
The Bia-Echo Foundation is the philanthropic vehicle of Nicole Shanahan, and via which she intends to give $100 million to philanthropy by 2024. The foundation focuses on women’s reproductive longevity and equality, criminal justice reform and the environment.
The Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation’s focus on racism, xenophobia and immigrants’ rights.
Borealis Philanthropy describes itself as a “social justice philanthropic intermediary” and runs funds to support grassroots organizations in the areas of racial justice, criminal justice reform, LGBTQ causes and disabilities.
The Otto Bremer Trust awards crime and violence prevention grants to organizations located in the upper Midwest region of the United States.
The Bromey Trust’s Prison Reform focus area has an emphasis on “the reduction of reoffending and the rehabilitation of offenders’’ in the United Kingdom.
The Butler Family Fund supports local, regional and national criminal justice reform organizations.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation supports child welfare, community change, economic opportunity and juvenile justice. The foundation works mainly with child welfare agencies, policymakers, and legislators, providing empirical support for funding and legislation supporting underserved and at-risk children and families.
The Marguerite Casey Foundation supports criminal justice reform, civil rights, and immigration reform efforts in select regions of the United States.
Chatlos Foundation names “prison alternatives” as one of its social justice grantmaking concerns.
The Clara Lionel Foundation supports climate resilience, disaster relief, racial justice, global health, immigrants and refugees, and other issues of interest to the founder in the U.S., the Caribbean and other countries around the world, particularly in Africa.
Criminal justice reform is one of Deutsche Bank’s newer areas of interest. Expect this broad program to evolve.
The foundation’s criminal justice reform grants support aim to reduce prison populations and support anti-recidivism measures.
The foundation currently awards grants to organizations working with women in the criminal justice system.
This foundation’s criminal justice work is conducted through a racial justice lens.
This funder conducts related funding through it’s Social Justice program, which overlaps with other funding areas.
The charitable arm of the national car rental company, Enterprise Holdings awards grants to anti-crime and violence organizations across the country.
The Ford Foundation seeks organizations that protect the safety and well-being of all. Grantmaking related to mass incarceration supports sentencing reforms , innovative alternative-to-incarceration models, and new narratives about incarceration that address public safety.
This foundation’s grantmaking for criminal justice concentrations in New York City and its burroughs. It has partnered with several organizations to offer formerly incarcerated people with opportunities to re-establish and strengthen their community ties.
The Fund for Nonviolence supports organizations that address violence prevention, as well as a fair and equitable justice system.
The David Geffen Foundation supports a wide range of criminal justice organizations across the United States.
Criminal justice reform and anti-recidivism are main focal points of the foundation’s Justice funding.
Good Ventures broadly supports a number of criminal justice reform organizations across the United States.
Although not named as an area of interest, Google.org appears to broadly support for the criminal justice reform movement in the U.S.
Guggenheim’s criminal justice grants focus on ethical journalism.
The Edward W. Hazen Foundation’s criminal justice and anti-violence grants focus on structural oppression and its impact on young people.
This foundation makes grants for criminal justice reform through its human rights giving.
The Charles Evans Hughes Memorial broadly funds “programs of national scope” related to law, human rights, environment, public health, education, arts, and culture.
The Joyce Foundation awards criminal justice and violence prevention grants to organizations located in the Great Lakes region, including Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
The Kaplan Fund’s social justice program supports “just alternatives and reforms to the current criminal justice and immigration enforcement systems, enabling our grantees to build power in communities that are directly impacted by criminalization.”
Kendeda’s criminal justice work intersects with it’s funding for racial equity and violence prevention.
It supports groups that work to “overturn the convictions of wrongfully imprisoned and fight to reform the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice” and prevent government seizure of property.