Non-profit

Youth First State Advocacy Fund

Type:

Pooled Donors Fund

Project of:

New Venture Fund

Youth First State Advocacy Fund is a pooled donor fund focused on criminal justice reform. It is a project of the New Venture Fund, a nonprofit in Arabella Advisors’ multi-billion-dollar “dark money” network. 1

Funding

As a New Venture Fund project, the advocacy fund does not report its finances or reveal its donors. However, in 2021 the advocacy fund received $175,000 from the Ford Foundation “to promote alternatives to the use of juvenile incarceration as a correctional model for youth.” 2

References

  1. Project status identified in Ford Foundation’s 2021 Form 990 return, grants section.

    Return of Foundation Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Ford Foundation. 2021. Schedule I. Archived: https://www.influencewatch.org/app/uploads/2023/01/ford-foundation-2021-form-990.pdf

  2. Return of Foundation Exempt from Income Tax (Form 990-PF). Ford Foundation. 2021. Schedule I. Archived: https://www.influencewatch.org/app/uploads/2023/01/ford-foundation-2021-form-990.pdf

Donor Organizations

  1. Ford Foundation (Non-profit)
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