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Country | United States |
Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Welfare_Foundation |
Best overview URL | http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/program-guidelines/ |
Facebook username | Public-Welfare-Foundation-371167644067 |
LinkedIn username | 9164304 |
Website | http://www.publicwelfare.org/ |
Donations URL | http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/our-grants/ |
Twitter username | PublicWelfare |
Page on philosophy informing donations | http://www.publicwelfare.org/about-us/ |
Grant application process page | http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/apply-for-a-grant/ |
Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | quarterly refresh |
Lag with which donor updates donations data | months |
Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | months |
Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/public-welfare-foundation |
Brief history: The Public Welfare Foundation was founded in 1947. It was overseen by Charles E. Marsh till 1953, then by his wife till 1974
Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: The three historical main areas were criminal justice reform, youth justice, and worker rights. In 2011 it added a special initiative for civil legal aid. All initiatives seem restricted to the United States
Notes on grant decision logistics: Grant applications have to be submitted through a process described at http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/apply-for-a-grant/ and http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/ and have to fit within the program guidelines described at http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/program-guidelines/
Notes on grant publication logistics: Grants are published on the grants page http://www.publicwelfare.org/grants-process/our-grants/ where they can be filtered by category and by fiscal year. Pages on individual grants are not published
Miscellaneous notes: The foundation was included because it has been mentioned by Open Philanthropy as one of the important funders of criminal justice reform in the United States, see for instance https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/criminal-justice-reform-strategy
Full donor page for donor Public Welfare Foundation
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Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
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Overall | 17 | 400,000 | 446,765 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 50,000 | 200,000 | 300,000 | 400,000 | 600,000 | 700,000 | 750,000 | 900,000 | 900,000 |
Custom | 2 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 | 25,000 |
Criminal justice reform | 9 | 400,000 | 460,556 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 50,000 | 200,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | 500,000 | 750,000 | 895,000 | 900,000 | 900,000 |
Civil legal aid | 5 | 700,000 | 620,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 200,000 | 600,000 | 600,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 900,000 | 900,000 |
Customer | 1 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
Cause area | Number of donations | Total | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
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Criminal justice reform (filter this donor) | 9 | 4,145,000.00 | 400,000.00 | 600,000.00 | 900,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 1,695,000.00 | 500,000.00 | 0.00 |
Civil legal aid (filter this donor) | 5 | 3,100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 700,000.00 | 900,000.00 | 600,000.00 | 200,000.00 | 700,000.00 |
Customer (filter this donor) | 1 | 300,000.00 | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Custom (filter this donor) | 2 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 25,000.00 | 25,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Total | 17 | 7,595,000.00 | 700,000.00 | 600,000.00 | 1,600,000.00 | 975,000.00 | 2,320,000.00 | 700,000.00 | 700,000.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 17) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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400,000.00 | 9 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 12 months. Support for Youth First State Advocacy Fund. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
300,000.00 | 11 | Customer/special opportunities | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support for Voices for Civil Justice to generate media coverage of civil legal aid, and increase the visibility and communications capacity of the sector. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
200,000.00 | 12 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Communities for Just Schools Fund. . Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
400,000.00 | 9 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 12 months. Support for the Youth First State Advocacy Fund. . Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
900,000.00 | 1 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support for the Youth First Initiative. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
700,000.00 | 5 | Civil legal aid | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support to the Self-Represented Litigation Network. . Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
25,000.00 | 16 | Custom/discretionary fund | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 12 months. Support for Better Schools Better Jobs for Mississippi. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
900,000.00 | 1 | Civil legal aid | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 36 months. Support for Voices for Civil Justice: A Breakthrough Strategic Communications Initiative for Civil Legal Aid. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
50,000.00 | 14 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 12 months. Support to the Communities for Just Schools Fund to host a convening for school discipline and juvenile justice reform advocates. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
895,000.00 | 3 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support to Youth First!, a national initiative to end youth incarceration and redirect resources to community programs. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
25,000.00 | 16 | Custom/discretionary fund | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 6 months. Support to the Self-Represented Litigation Network for the development of a national online tool for the self-represented litigation service innovation. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
750,000.00 | 4 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support for Alliance for Safety and Justice, a multi-state advocacy campaign seeking to significantly reduce the U.S. prison population in target states, and b…. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
600,000.00 | 7 | Civil legal aid | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support to bring the Self-Represented Litigation Network to scale. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
50,000.00 | 14 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support for JustLeadershipUSA. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
500,000.00 | 8 | Criminal justice reform/youth justice | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support to the Youth First! Initiative to end the reliance on youth incarceration and redirect resources towards community programs. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
200,000.00 | 12 | Civil legal aid | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 24 months. Support for activities to strengthen the Self-Represented Litigation Network in its effort to develop and promote self-help resources for increasing access to …. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. | |
700,000.00 | 5 | Civil legal aid | https://www.publicwelfare.org/grants/ | -- | Term: 36 months. Support to house a collective communications initiative that will create a common narrative in the media, casting a spotlight on the vital role of civil legal …. Affected regions: Washington, DC; affected countries: United States. |