The Louisiana Justice Fund (LJF) is a pooled fund housed at FFL that supports projects that reduce incarceration, improve reentry outcomes, and remove barriers to economic mobility for individuals disproportionately affected by the criminal legal system.
Donor Name: Foundation for Louisiana
State: Louisiana
County: Selected Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 12/05/2025
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The Fund strategically invests resources to drive meaningful and lasting change. LJF values collaboration, capacity building, and strategic advocacy in its efforts to bring about lasting change in Louisiana’s criminal legal landscape. LJF aims to achieve this through strategic investments in north Louisiana, central Louisiana, southwest Louisiana, Greater New Orleans, and Greater Baton Rouge areas through three grantmaking goals: 1) strengthen the ecosystem of criminal legal system reform organizations, 2) invest in organizations to shift narratives on safety, crime, and accountability, and 3) increase economic mobility for criminal legal system impacted folks.
LJF’s Coalition and Collaborative Advocacy Power grant supports Louisiana-based coalitions and organizations defending criminal legal system reforms and advancing policy and advocacy efforts to reduce incarceration rates, improve reentry outcomes, and eliminate barriers to economic mobility for criminal legal system-impacted folks.
What the Grant Supports:
- Coalitions advancing systemic or structural criminal legal system reforms through strategic collaboration. Funded activities can include convening and strengthening multi-organization coalitions, developing shared policy agendas, mobilizing community voices and the voices of those with lived experience, and engaging in legislative or administrative advocacy. Priority will be given to initiatives that reduce incarceration, enhance reentry supports, and expand equitable access to economic opportunity for system-impacted folks and their families.
- Organizations working to advance reforms within the criminal legal system through collaborative advocacy. Eligible strategies include joint policy campaigns, coordinated public education and narrative change efforts, shared research and data analysis, cross-sector partnerships that build community power, and others. Grants support initiatives that reduce incarceration rates, improve reentry outcomes, and eliminate barriers to economic mobility for individuals impacted by the criminal legal system.
Funding Information
Up to eight (8) Louisiana-based organizations will be awarded up to $100,000 each, and may be renewable for up to one year.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be based in North Louisiana, Central Louisiana, or Southwest Louisiana. Applicants based in the greater New Orleans and greater Baton Rouge areas are eligible if their work includes north, central, and/or southwest Louisiana communities.
- Applicants must either have federal tax-exempt/501(c)3 status or have a fiscal sponsor with federal tax-exempt/501(c)3 status.
- Applicants with leadership that includes system-impacted individuals or those from communities most affected by criminalization and incarceration are encouraged.
For more information, visit Foundation for Louisiana.
