California · Nonprofit
ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK
ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,595,373 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,502,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 35
- Grants received
- $8.6M
- Net assets
- $5.2M
What Arts for Healing and Justice Network does
Mission
Ahjn is an organization providing structure and coordination for the collaborative work of community-based arts education organizations serving system-impacted youth in the los angeles county, in order to provide alternatives to incarceration, build resiliency and wellness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Members programmingthis encompasses arts programming provided by ahjn's member organizations in juvenile detention facilities in los angeles county. This mainly consists of 12-week cycles rotating among the different secure residential facilities, both the camps (long-term) and the halls (short term).members programming represents ahjn's core work of supporting the delivery of healing-informed arts to youth, where our 22 member agencies serve system-impacted youth in los angeles (l.a.) county, providing high quality-arts education that includes creative writing, spoken word, visual arts, theater, digital media, dance, and music. Ahjn's core work remains providing year-round, healing-informed arts engagement to youth and youth-serving adults in detention facilities, parks, housing sites, and school-based settings across la county. Ahjn is currently providing year-around arts programming at 47 different sites, reaching an estimated 1,800 youth/year.
$2,707,785 spent$135,592 earned by the program77% of program spendingYouth leadership developmentcurrently, ahjn's program consists of three core elements for which funding is sought: our true colors and youth fellowships and captstones.our true colors: the our true colors space, exclusively for systems-impacted young people, is an arts-centered healing space. It includes life skills classes (such as financial management and personal budgeting), field trips-to performances, cultural events, and our members events and spaces-and art-making. Ahjn's goal is to provide a safe, low-risk, engaging peer space as a "landing pad" for youth returning to their communities. Our true colors has a shared, youth-defined rubric for meeting personal goals of participation, communication, and community.
$246,593 spent7% of program spendingAdvocacyahjn supports the implementation of arts as a practice to change systems. In advocating for a youth development approach, ahjn is providing advocacy fellowships for youth who are returning to l.a. Communities through paid learning opportunities that engage directly-impacted youth in using arts to articulate their own perspectives and priorities around needed systemic change. Ahjn strives to "connect the dots" between direct service and systemic change. Ahjn does this by connecting advocacy to those most impacted-centering arts and art-making as a way to build community. Partnership, and resilience in systems-change work and within the collaborative network iteself, and using the arts to shift how people see each other to increase empathy and solidarity. Advocacy projects have included the create justice national think tank series of forums, which elevated the intersection of arts and juvenile justice reform. This involved co-hosting and planning the forum, and supporting the full participation of a cohort of young people to attend, as well as communication efforts (including developing and launching a website) for the initiative. Also included in ahjn's advocacy program is…
$207,487 spent6% of program spendingTechnical assistance and replication
$76,366 spent2% of program spendingMembers capacity building
$112,110 spent3% of program spendingSierra eyc
$149,004 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,499,345.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $2.7M to $4.0M (+49%).
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: 2018 60% · 2019 61% · 2021 54% · 2022 33% · 2023 46% · 2024 58% · 2025 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (63% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 7 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
Elida Ledesma
Executive director
Board chair
Shelby Williams-Gonzalez
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $120k → $1.8M.
7 of 35 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 36% 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 ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 35 funders by total. 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
ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 36% · 2019 65% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 44% · 2023 28% — 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
53% of ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
66% of ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,430 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10k on record.
- National Endowment for the Arts$10k
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 ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK?
- ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK (California) receives grants from 35 organizations whose IRS filings report $8,595,373 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($1,502,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK have?
- IRS filings report 35 organizations giving $8,595,373 in grants to ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $1,502,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARTS FOR HEALING AND JUSTICE NETWORK find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 35 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing