About Accountable Justice Action Fund
The Accountable Justice Action Fund supports criminal justice reform, with a focus on equipping communities to increase accountability in prosecutorial elections and ensuring communities most harmed by crime and incarceration have a meaningful chance to elect prosecutors who will represent their interests and reduce unnecessary incarceration.
Focus Areas
Criminal justice reformProsecutorial electionsCommunity accountability
Who They Fund
people impacted by the criminal justice system (incarcerated, formerly incarcerated, families)local and state criminal-justice reform organizations and coalitionsvoters / local electorates in prosecutor racesjurisdictional communities seeking alternatives to incarceration (e.g., Louisiana communities, California counties)
Funding Style
electoral support / prosecutor campaign support
About Accountable Justice Action Fund
Accountable Justice Action Fund centers its grantmaking on prosecutor elections and criminal justice reform, backing groups that help communities most harmed by crime and incarceration influence who holds prosecutorial power. The foundation’s recent grants show a strong pattern of large-scale support for advocacy, electoral organizing, and reform work across state and local campaigns. Two recipients illustrate that approach. Working Families Organization Inc received $2,200,000 in 2025 for criminal justice reform, after a $1,700,000 grant in 2023 for prosecutor elections and criminal justice reform. Justice Research Group received $3,100,000 in 2023 for prosecutor elections and criminal justice reform, followed by $1,400,000 in 2024 for criminal justice reform. Those awards sit alongside support for organizations working in specific jurisdictions, including Texas, New York, North Carolina, California, Louisiana, and Chicago. The funder also supports coalitions and aligned advocacy groups, including recipients tied to voter education, racial justice organizing, and alternatives to incarceration. Across the recent record, the emphasis stays on helping local and national organizations shape prosecution policy, build community accountability, and reduce unnecessary incarceration.
What Accountable Justice Action Fund Funds
In prosecutor-election work, the foundation gave $800,000 in 2023 to TX Organizing Project for support work on DA elections in Texas, and $200,000 in 2023 to Forward Justice Action Network for support work on DA elections in North Carolina. It also awarded $250,000 in 2023 to People for Fairness and Justice PAC for prosecutor elections and criminal justice reform. For criminal justice reform organizing, Colorofchangeorg received $750,000 in 2025 for general support and criminal justice reform. The People’s Lobby was funded twice, with $130,000 in 2024 and $125,000 in 2025 for criminal justice reform, showing continued support for the same advocacy lane. In Louisiana, Step Up for Action received $90,000 in 2025 for Louisianans for Prison Alternatives, and Voters Organized to Educate received $300,000 in 2025 for general support. The funder also backs state- and city-level reform campaigns, including $200,000 in 2024 to Tides Advocacy for Smart Justice California and $53,000 in 2025 to New York State Immigrant Action Fund Incorporated for Queens Organizing Alliance.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$5M
Total Assets
$18.5M
Total Revenue
$3.1M
Total Expenses
$6.9M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $50K and $360K, with a median of $128K.
25th Percentile
$50K
Median
$128K
75th Percentile
$360K
Geographic Reach
National16 states funded
About 19% of grants go to recipients in IL.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
CHLOE COCKBURN
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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