A national criminal justice and racial justice nonprofit will shutter its operations for good this week, with the head of the organization saying there was no path forward after the Trump administration terminated two Justice Department grants this spring.
Equal Justice USA says it lost out on $2.4 million because of the midstream termination of two DOJ grants, part of a larger Trump administration decision to cancel a swath of department grant funding nationwide.
The nonprofit, which was founded in 1990 and became an independent organization in 2007, will close down on Friday. Dozens of staff members will be laid off, according to a nonprofit official.
