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.
Against its field
CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE's revenue fell 91% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 987 crime & legal nonprofits under $100k, FY2025
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Incshared funders
- Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacyportfolio match
- Prevent Child Abuse Americaportfolio match
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.
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
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 statesis 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Incshared fundersCT · backs 24 organizations that share your funders
- Tennessee Chapter of Children's Advocacyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prevent Child Abuse Americaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Children's Alliance Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judgesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Texas Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sentencing Projectportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alliance for Hope Internationalportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sexually Abused Children's Relief Endeavor (Sacred)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ohio Network of Children's Advocacy Centersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Arkansasportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Advocacy Centers of Georgia Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CENTER FOR JUDICIAL EXCELLENCE
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
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.
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 7funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing