Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Advocates for Justice and Education
Advocates for Justice and Education (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,991,940 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($876,887). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 18
- Grants received
- $3.0M
- Net assets
- $55k
What Advocates for Justice and Education does
Mission
Advocates for Justice and Education seeks to empower families, youth, and the community to be effective advocates to ensure that children and youth, particularly those who have special needs, receive access to appropriate education and health services.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The Parent Training and Information (PTI) Center is a comprehensive resource and training center that offers parents information on the laws of special education, specific disabilities, the latest research on treatment and interventions, and adaptive technology. The PTI also provides families of children and youth with disabilities with one-on-one assistance, resources, training, advanced leadership training for parents to advocate for systems change, a supportive network through peer-to-peer support for families, and trains other professionals who support families.
$986,977 spent100% of program spendingAJE provides legal services to families in the area of special education, school discipline and school access issues. Legal services are provided in the form of advice and counsel, brief services and extended representation. AJE provided legal services to individuals involving education matters. Specifically, AJE provided advice and counsel, brief services or extended representation to ndividuals in school discipline/exclusion and education access matters and trained parents on legal rights involving school discipline and special education related topics.
The Family-to-Family program through the D.C. Health Information Center (DC HIC) provides support, information, resources, and training to families of children and youth with special health care needs and the professionals that serve them. The program provides families with leadership development to be more effective advocates at all levels and to be able to provide informational and emotional support to other families of children with special health care needs.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $986,977.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $486k to $1.3M (+168%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 62% · 2018 56% · 2019 53% · 2020 34% · 2021 42% · 2022 31% · 2023 45% · 2024 33% · 2025 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of Advocates for Justice and Education’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (72% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Rochanda Hiligh Thomas
Executive Director
Board chair
Jane Brown
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $44k → $492k.
2 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Advocates for Justice and Education’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Advocates for Justice and Education leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
54% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Advocates for Justice and Education.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 55% · 2020 33% · 2021 27% · 2022 29% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
45% of Advocates for Justice and Education's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 67% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of Advocates for Justice and Education's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $72k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Advocates for Justice and Education has grown faster than half of the 369 unclassified nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 369 unclassified nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Advocates for Justice and Education receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.9M on record.
- Department of Education$2.0M
- Department of Health and Human Services$950k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like Advocates for Justice and Education
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Advocates for Justice and Education: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Advocates for Justice and Education?
- Advocates for Justice and Education (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,991,940 to it, the largest being THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION ($876,887). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Advocates for Justice and Education have?
- IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $2,991,940 in grants to Advocates for Justice and Education, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Advocates for Justice and Education?
- THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $876,887 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Advocates for Justice and Education find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing