California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE
CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,687 to it, the largest being THE STREBL FOUNDATION ($465,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $10k
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $647k
- Net assets
- $26k
What Center for Judicial Excellence does
Mission
To improve the judiciary's public accountability and strengthen and maintain the integrity of the courts.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Program
Conducts national research on child homicides, violence and abuse involving family courts and educates the public about the need to make the family court system safer for children. Organizes young abuse survivors to reclaim their voices by speaking out.
$10,660 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $10,660.
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 2022 to 2023, from $23k to $162k (+621%).
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: 2021 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell $94k → $63k.
5 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE’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
CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 94%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 89% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 79% · 2021 57% · 2022 66% · 2023 56% — 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.
Where its funders are
86% of CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $107k 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
CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE's revenue fell 91% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,052 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Organizations like CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE
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.
Public support
100%
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 CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE: 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 CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE?
- CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE (California) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $646,687 to it, the largest being THE STREBL FOUNDATION ($465,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $646,687 in grants to CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE?
- THE STREBL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $465,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 7 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