Everytown Community Safety Fund

What Everytown Community Safety Fund does

Everytown Community Safety Fund is an initiative of Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, Inc., a New York-incorporated 501(c)(3) organization (EIN 26-1598353) founded in 2019. It functions as a grant-making vehicle that channels charitable contributions to community-based violence intervention (CVI) organizations across the United States. Since inception the Fund has disbursed $13.6 million to 136 CVI programs operating in 69 American cities, and a separate Everytown Survivor Network grant track has distributed $530,000 to 59 survivor-serving organizations since 2021.

Beyond direct grant-making, the Fund delivers capacity-building through the Community Training Institute and operates a peer network of more than 70 community-based organizations. Its product surface extends through a portfolio of affiliated tools and sub-brands under the Everytown Support Fund umbrella: EveryStat (gun violence data visualization), Gun Law Navigator (state-law database since 1991), City Gun Violence Reduction Insight Portal (City GRIP), Gun Law Rankings, Be SMART (secure-storage awareness), Wear Orange (annual campaign), Everytown Survivor Network, and AskEverytown (an Anthropic Claude-powered chatbot). Train SMART, a veteran-led gun safety training program offered via wholly-owned subsidiary Train SMART LLC, launched in September 2025.

Commercially the organization is a contribution-funded nonprofit rather than a product vendor. Revenue derives from individual donations (one-time and recurring), planned giving/bequests, donor-advised fund contributions (via DAFpay integration), stock transfers, IRA rollovers, Combined Federal Campaign contributions, and select product/fees activity through the Train SMART LLC subsidiary. Go-to-market is community- and donor-led: it leverages the broader Everytown for Gun Safety brand, the Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action grassroots networks, and earned media from public-awareness campaigns to both raise donations and recruit CVI grantees. Customer concentration risk is low by construction: 136 grantees across 69 cities, with no single beneficiary dominating disclosed totals.

Name

Everytown Community Safety Fund

Legal name

Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, Inc.

Website

https://everytownsupportfund.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Everytown Community Safety Fund is a 501(c)(3) grant-making initiative that has directed $13.6M to 136 community-based violence intervention programs across 69 U.S. cities since 2019, while operating capacity-building training, a peer network, and veteran-led gun safety training under the Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund umbrella.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Gun Violence Prevention Nonprofit

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Youth Justice, At-Risk Youth & Violence Prevention Nonprofits (BPAGADAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community Health & Prevention Program Funding (HLAJALAF), Cash & Voucher Assistance (CVA) and Emergency Livelihood Support (BPAGAAAJ), Mental Health & Crisis Support Services (BPAGACAD)

Keywords

• Gun violence prevention
• Community violence intervention
• Nonprofit grantmaking
• Firearm safety education
• Violence prevention advocacy

Headquarters

HQ city

New York

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Grants and Donations: The organization generates revenue through individual donations (one-time and monthly), planned giving/bequests, donor-advised fund (DAF) contributions, IRA donations, stock transfers, and Combined Federal Campaign contributions. As a 501(c)(3), all donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
2. Grant Awards to CVI Organizations: Since 2019, the Everytown Community Safety Fund has granted $13.6 million in support of 136 community-based violence intervention programs implementing promising strategies in 69 American cities.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Everytown Community Safety Fund is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that makes multi-year and general operating grants to community-based violence intervention (CVI) organizations across the United States, coupled with capacity-building training, peer convenings, and convening support. Since 2019 it has directed more than $13.6 million to 136 CVI programs in 69 American cities, and it also operates public data tools, survivor support programs, and gun-safety education campaigns.

Product overview

Everytown Community Safety Fund operates as a grant-making program supporting community-based violence intervention (CVI) organizations nationwide. The organization offers a portfolio of programs including the Everytown Community Safety Fund (direct grants and capacity-building for CVI programs), Train SMART (veteran-led gun safety training), EveryStat and Gun Law Navigator (data/analytics tools), AskEverytown (AI-powered chatbot), Be SMART and Wear Orange (public awareness campaigns), Everytown Survivor Network (peer support for survivors), Veterans Engagement program, and Gun Law Rankings (policy analysis). These products work together to advance the organization's mission of reducing gun violence through research, education, community intervention, and advocacy.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Everytown Community Safety Fund: Delivering resources to help community-based violence intervention organizations sustain and scale their essential, lifesaving work.

Products and services

• Community Safety Fund Grants Multi-year, generally unrestricted operating grants (typically around $150,000) awarded to U.S. community-based violence intervention (CVI) nonprofits to sustain and scale their frontline gun-violence prevention programs.
• Train SMART A national training and certification program operated by the Fund's wholly-owned subsidiary (Train SMART LLC) that provides structured safety training to gun owners to reduce firearm-related harm.
• Everytown Survivor Network Program supporting gun-violence survivors with resources, advocacy training, and grant funding (Survivor Network Grant Program) for survivor-led organizations.
• Moments That Survive Program collecting and sharing personal stories from gun-violence survivors and loved ones to inform the public and policymakers.
• Be SMART Public-education campaign promoting secure firearm storage among parents and adults to prevent child access to guns.
• EveryStat Interactive online data tool providing gun-violence statistics and visualizations for the public, journalists, and policymakers.
• Gun Law Navigator Searchable online tool that allows users to look up firearms-related laws across U.S. states and categories.
• City GRIP (Gun Risk Injury Platform) City-level data platform that maps gun-violence risk and injury data for U.S. cities to support local research and advocacy.
• Students Demand Action Youth volunteer and advocacy program that mobilizes students in U.S. schools and campuses for gun-violence prevention.
• AskEverytown AI Chatbot Website chatbot that provides AI-generated answers to user questions about gun safety, state laws, and Everytown's research and programs.

Quantifiable outcome

• $13.6 million granted to 136 CVI programs across 69 cities since 2019
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration8 records

AI capability2 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Living Classrooms FoundationcoreOthers · 19 November 2025The Everytown Community Safety Fund awarded a $100,000 grant to Living Classrooms Foundation to support its outreach and crisis response program, Operation Respond, in Baltimore. The funds aim to enhance trauma-informed care, workforce development, and mentorship, impacting neighborhoods like Belair-Edison and McElderry Park.
• Urban Peace InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCVI organization advocating for community violence intervention funding and working with Everytown on policy efforts related to federal funding cuts to violence intervention programs.
• Giving DocsminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnered platform providing free estate planning tools (will creation, beneficiary designation) for donors. Everytown receives planned gifts while donors receive free legal document services.
• Temple University - Department of Criminal JusticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner through Dr. Caterina Roman, Professor, who serves on the Everytown Community Safety Fund Advisory Board.
• University of Chicago Crime Lab - CVI Leadership AcademyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerAcademic partner through Dr. Chico Tillmon, Director of the CVI Leadership Academy, who serves on the Everytown Community Safety Fund Advisory Board.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The Joyce Foundation: The Joyce Foundation is a regional (Great Lakes) private foundation with a long-standing gun violence prevention grantmaking program that funds research, policy advocacy, and state-level reform. It is highly comparable to CSF in being a focused philanthropic funder within the same gun safety ecosystem.
• Giffords: Giffords is a leading national gun violence prevention organization combining advocacy, research, and a c3/c4 structure, with significant grantmaking and direct-service funding arms. It is the closest direct peer to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund in mission, structure, and federal/state advocacy posture.
• Brady Campaign: Brady Campaign and its affiliated Brady Center work on gun violence prevention through research, litigation, and education with a similar c3/c4 split. It is a direct peer in mission, policy focus, and use of donor dollars to advance evidence-based gun safety reform.

Others

• Kaiser Permanente Community Health: Kaiser Permanente operates one of the largest U.S. nonprofit hospital community-benefit grant programs, funding violence intervention, trauma, and community health initiatives. It is an adjacent funder - not a gun-policy peer - but is a relevant comparison for hospital/community-anchored violence intervention funding pipelines that CSF grantees often tap into.

Broad incumbents

• Open Society Foundations: Open Society Foundations is a large global grantmaker funding criminal justice reform, violence prevention, and social justice causes. It is a broad incumbent whose U.S. criminal justice portfolio overlaps with CSF's CVI agenda at the city and state level.
• Bloomberg Philanthropies: Bloomberg Philanthropies is a large, multi-issue global funder with a significant gun violence prevention portfolio (e.g., the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative on gun violence). It is a broad incumbent that overlaps with CSF on CVI funding and municipal-level intervention strategy, but operates at vastly greater scale across many other causes.
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: RWJF is one of the largest U.S. health-focused private foundations, funding public health research and community-based prevention programs. It is comparable as a major health-adjacent grantmaker that frames violence as a public health issue, an increasingly central narrative for CSF's CVI work.
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation: The Casey Foundation is a large national funder focused on children, youth, and families, including youth violence, juvenile justice, and community safety. It is a broad incumbent whose youth-violence and community-safety portfolios overlap thematically with CSF's at-risk youth and violence interruption grantees.

Emerging players

• Robin Hood Foundation: Robin Hood is a New York-based poverty-fighting foundation that funds evidence-driven community programs and uses data/analytics to target giving. It is a useful comparable for CSF's data-informed grantmaking model and concentration in urban community safety, though focused on poverty more broadly than gun violence specifically.

Regional players

• California Wellness Foundation: Cal Wellness is a California-focused private foundation that funds violence prevention, mental health, and community health programs, including CVI-style efforts. It is comparable in mission and grantmaking approach to CSF, but its giving is concentrated in California rather than national.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/Everytown
• YouTubeyoutube.com/everytown
• Facebookfacebook.com/Everytown
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/everytown-for-gun-safety
• Instagraminstagram.com/everytown

Compliance2 records

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Profiles5 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments3 records

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