California · Nonprofit
CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY
CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,473,766 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.4M
- Funders on record
- 36
- Grants received
- $6.5M
- Net assets
- $3.0M
What Center for Justice & Accountability does
Mission
The center for justice and accountability (cja) is an international human rights organization dedicated to deterring torture, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other severe human rights abuses around the world through litigation, policy advocacy and outreach in pursuit of truth, justice and redress for victims and survivors.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Cja is a leading u.s.-based organization working with survivors and communities impacted by atrocity crimes in seeking truth, justice, and redress. Through innovative high-impact litigation, cja has brought cases against human rights violators from bosnia, cambodia, chile, china, colombia, el salvador, guatemala, haiti, honduras, indonesia, liberia, peru, somalia, sri lanka, syria and the united states. Additionally, cja participates in other cases of importance to the human rights community as amicus curiae in human rights cases in the u.s. As well as advocacy before united nations and regional human rights bodies. Cja also supports initiatives that advance the united states government's commitment to criminally prosecute human rights abusers. Cja works on an ongoing basis with u.s. And international law enforcement. Cja integrates other innovative strategies to hold human rights abusers accountable. Cja pairs survivor-centered litigation with transitional justice projects, in which cja works alongside lawyers and human rights defenders from impacted communities in joint case investigation and development. Cja engages in advocacy to ensure that there are legal remedies to hold…
$4,636,755 spentof which $1,989,406 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,636,755.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.8M to $3.9M (+116%).
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: 2020 13% · 2021 43% · 2022 62% · 2023 68% · 2024 65% · 2025 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (93% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 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
Carmen Cheung
Executive director
Board chair
Charline Yim
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose $310k → $938k.
14 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 52% 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 JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 65%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
61% 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 CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 77% · 2019 55% · 2020 59% · 2021 72% · 2022 53% · 2023 27% — 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
50% of CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
52% of CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $3.1M that is directly attributable, 83% of it comes from funders outside California, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 11 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 JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 793 crime & legal nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 793 crime & legal nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.4M on record.
- Department of State$1.4M
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 CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
84%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 13 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY: 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 JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY?
- CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY (California) receives grants from 36 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,473,766 to it, the largest being CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($2,000,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY have?
- IRS filings report 36 organizations giving $6,473,766 in grants to CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY?
- CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $2,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY 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 36 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