California · Nonprofit
Center for Restorative Justice Works
Center for Restorative Justice Works (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $775,906 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $891k
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $776k
- Net assets
- $999k
What Center for Restorative Justice Works does
Mission
The specific purpose of the organization shall include without limitation, service to the incarcerated and families of the incarcerated within a restorative justice context, including transportation of children and caregivers to visit parents in prisons.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
"get on the bus" offers free transportation for children and their caregivers to visit family members in prison. The program provides travel bags for the children, comfort bags for the caregivers, a photo of each child with his or her parent, and meals for the day (breakfast, snack on the bus, a special lunch at the prison with their parent, and dinner on the way home) at no cost to the family. The organization receives the generous donation of facilities and professional services to accomplish their programs for sending multiple buses to 12 prisons.
$857,525 spent96% of program spendingTransistion4success provides employment and training opportunities for formerly incarcerated individuals, that supprt positive post-prison outcomes for returned citizens by helping them adjust back into society with a sense of self-worth and dignity.
$32,731 spent4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $890,256.
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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.3M (+18%).
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: 2022 39% · 2023 55%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Center for Restorative Justice Works’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (83% 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
Lised Rios
Executive Director
Board chair
John Kalin
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $54k → $112k.
6 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 39% 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 Restorative Justice Works’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 Restorative Justice Works has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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
56% 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 Restorative Justice Works.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 33% · 2019 39% · 2020 40% · 2021 52% · 2022 43% · 2023 22% — 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
25% of Center for Restorative Justice Works's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
73% of Center for Restorative Justice Works's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $304k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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 Restorative Justice Works's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 11 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,464 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like Center for Restorative Justice Works
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
93%
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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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Center for Restorative Justice Works: 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 Restorative Justice Works?
- Center for Restorative Justice Works (California) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $775,906 to it, the largest being ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($200,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Center for Restorative Justice Works have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $775,906 in grants to Center for Restorative Justice Works, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Center for Restorative Justice Works?
- ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $200,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Center for Restorative Justice Works 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 28 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